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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"English-Japanese"”.
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Rethinking translation unit size: an empirical study of an English-Japanese newswire corpus
… the ARC (the Alignment of Reuters Corpora), an English-Japanese newswire corpus. The main achievements of this study are: the identification of five variables associated with translation unit size; the establishment of an unbiased, reproducible identification method; and, the demonstration that …
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Causativity in Chinese and its representations in English, Japanese and Korean speakers' L2 Chinese grammars.
… of these Chinese verbs and constructions in English-, Japanese- and Korean-speaking learners' L2 Chinese grammars. The aim of the research is to find out whether Ll transfer persists in L2 Chinese and whether L2 learners can acquire the functional AspP involved in Chinese resultative and …
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Cognitive Processes in Second Language Reading (Orthography, Cognition, Bilingualism)
… with native speakers of four languages--Arabic, English, Japanese, and Spanish (N = 83). Experimental tasks involved (a) short-term memory recall, (b) reading with Sanskrit symbols, (c) lexical decision-making, and (d) reading with heterographic homophones. The results consistently demonstrate …
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A theory of (almost) zero resource speech recognition
… however, is still limited to languages such as English, Japanese, and German, where vast amounts of labeled training data are available. For most other languages, it is prohibitively expensive to 1) collect and transcribe the speech data required to learn good acoustic models; and 2) acquire …
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Twitter and the body parodic : global acts of re-creation and recreation
… of social critique and linguistic play across English, Japanese, and Arabic-one that is collaboratively created by the users, policymakers, and architects of Twitter. Together, apart, and in different constellations with governments and news media, these actors use parody accounts to recreate …
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Conversational code-switching among Japanese-English bilinguals who have Japanese background
… the code-switching of native speakers of Japanese in an English-speaking context. The languages involved in code-switching therefore are English and Japanese. This is an instance of communication in the participants' first language, in a setting where the speakers' second language is …
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"LANGUAGE PREFERENCE AND COGNITIVE AVAILABILITY OF SEXUAL IDENTITY IN GAY JAPANESE BILINGUALS: AN ANALYSIS OF HABITUAL USE OF LINGUISTIC CATEGORIES"
… an issue that is not acknowledged by mainstream Japanese society – it is taboo and not spoken about publicly. The present study explored gay bilingual Japanese individuals' abilities to produce words about sexuality to determine whether talking and thinking about sexuality differs between the two …
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The production of English /r/ and /l/ by native speakers of Japanese and Korean
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01