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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"word boundaries"”.
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The effects of character predictability on eye-movement control in reading Mandarin Chinese texts
… studies of alphabetic scripts, hypothesize that “word” is the basic unit of processing, but there is no consensus on whether this assumption is also true in Chinese reading. As word boundaries are not visually denoted in Chinese text, “word” is hard to define. Chinese readers do not agree with …
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A comparison-based approach to mispronunciation detection
This thesis focuses on the problem of detecting word-level mispronunciations in nonnative speech. Conventional automatic speech recognition-based mispronunciation detection systems have the disadvantage of requiring a large amount of language-specific, annotated training data. Some systems even …
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Across-word phoneme models for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
In this work, the application of across-word phoneme models during large vocabulary continuous speech recognition is studied. A recognition system will be developed which allows for the training of high performance across-word phoneme models, the efficient application of these across-word phoneme …
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Semi-supervised learning for natural language
… the performance of a number of tasks, e.g. word sense disambiguation, information extraction, and natural language parsing. In this thesis, we focus on two segmentation tasks, named-entity recognition and Chinese word segmentation. The goal of named-entity recognition is to detect and …
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Implicit graphemic cues in Thai reading
… not use space or other punctuation to demarcate word boundaries typically show improvements in early reading time measures when spaces are inserted. However, it seems that Thai may not follow this same trend (Winskel, Radach, & Luksaneeyanawin, 2009). One potential explanation is that Thai …
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Rhythmic Sensitivity and Developmental Language Disorder in Children
… affected by poor rhythmic sensitivity: locating word-boundaries, processing novel words, storing lexical stress patterns, representing sentence level structures and the integration of rhythm and syntax. As part of the investigation, measures were also taken of acoustic threshold sensitivity to …
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The acquisition of resyllabification in Spanish by English speakers
… second language learners produce and recognize words in continuous speech when speech segmentation strategies differ between languages? This thesis explores phrases that have been affected by the process of resyllabification of consonants across word boundaries, where syllable and word …
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The morphophonemics of the Idaacha dialect of Yoruba
… one would expect, VH rules do not apply across word boundaries; they apply before processes such as contraction, abbreviation, and compounding. In regard to tones, it is pointed out that a three-way tonal system is a major characteristic of the language. However, a phenomenon of M/L …
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Phonology-Morphology Interaction in Abha Arabic: Vowel Processes in Stratal Optimality Theory
… affixes and morpheme interaction across word boundaries can be accounted for in the Stratal OT framework. Accounting for the different behaviours of epenthetic vowels needs a framework with different levels. Repairing consonant clusters provided a rich source for the analysis because they …
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The "where" and "when" of eye fixations in reading
… related to the eyes’ landing position within words, (1) the optimal viewing position (OVP), (2) the preferred viewing location (PVL), and (3) the Fixation-Duration Inverted-Optimal Viewing Position (IOVP) Effect. Based on a corpus-analytical approach (Exp. 1), the influence of variables word …
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A Sociolinguistic Study of T-glottalling in Young RP: Accent, Class and Education
… perspective, by splitting the dataset into word-medial and word-final and by analysing a wide range of linguistic factors, which have often been overlooked in previous studies of t-glottalling in British accents. The linguistic constraints analysed in the study are: preceding and following …
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Eye movement control during reading : factors and principles of computing the word center for saccade planning
… with high visual acuity, while the visibility of words and letters outside this so-called foveal region quickly drops with increasing eccentricity. As a consequence, saccadic eye movements are needed to repeatedly shift the fovea to new words for visual word identification during reading. …