Search results for "EEC"

2019

During speech perception listeners rely on multimodal input and make use of both auditory and visual information. When presented with speech, for example syllables, the differences in brain responses to distinct stimuli are not, however, caused merely by the acoustic or visual features of the stimuli. The congruency of the auditory and visual information and the familiarity of a syllable, that is, whether it appears in the listener’s native language or not, also modulates brain responses. We investigated how the congruency and familiarity of the presented stimuli affect brain responses to audio-visual (AV) speech in 12 adult Finnish native speakers and 12 adult Chinese native speakers. They…

Una aproximación al valor social subjetivo de la educación en Iberoamérica: Evidencias de validez entre Argentina, España y República Dominicana

2017

espanolSe presenta un estudio de validacion sobre el valor social subjetivo de la educacion entre Argentina, Espana y Republica Dominicana. Se trata de una investigacion de metodologia mixta desarrollada con 251 docentes a traves de encuesta online y grupos focales. Se analiza y valora el constructo teorico de acuerdo a su relevancia y susceptibilidad de cambio a traves de una validacion cruzada entre tres contextos. Los resultados muestran un acuerdo estadisticamente significativo en cada pais, ademas de que aparecen diferencias significativas entre ellos. El concepto trabajado es fundamental a nivel internacional, ya que supone una reflexion hacia la potencialidad de la propia educacion. …

Improving Speaker-Independent Lipreading with Domain-Adversarial Training

2017

We present a Lipreading system, i.e. a speech recognition system using only visual features, which uses domain-adversarial training for speaker independence. Domain-adversarial training is integrated into the optimization of a lipreader based on a stack of feedforward and LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) recurrent neural networks, yielding an end-to-end trainable system which only requires a very small number of frames of untranscribed target data to substantially improve the recognition accuracy on the target speaker. On pairs of different source and target speakers, we achieve a relative accuracy improvement of around 40% with only 15 to 20 seconds of untranscribed target speech data. On mul…

Deep Neural Network Frontend for Continuous EMG-Based Speech Recognition

2016

Early intentional communication as a predictor of language development in young toddlers

1999

Interrelations between various types of early intentional communi cation measures, and their relations to children's concurrent and subsequent language skills and maternal interactional sensitivity were studied in a sample of 111 mother-infant pairs. Intentional communication was assessed at 14 months of age using a composite of early actions and gestures derived from parental reports (MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories, MCDI), and measures of early joint attentional behaviours obtained via observations of parent-child play interaction. The sum of actions and gestures and the measures of joint attentional behaviours correlated significantly with each other suggesting that the …

Diachronic development of gender in city names in Spanish

2019

AbstractThis paper examines the gender assignment rules that apply to city names in the history of Spanish, relying for the first time on extensive corpus-based material. The empirical data show that gender assignment changed from a referential principle that consistently assigned city names to the feminine (due to the feminine basic level noun for ‘city’) to a phonologically driven assignment rule, with city names ending in-agenerally being assigned to the feminine (e.g.Barcelona) and those ending in-oor-C to the masculine (e.g.Toledo,Madrid). However, the overall picture is much more complicated than previously suggested in the literature since there is still a high degree of gender varia…

Morphological features of Kiswahili youth language(s): Evidence from Dar es Salaam, Goma, Lubumbashi and Nairobi

2020

AbstractSince the late 1980s, linguists’ analyses of Sheng, the urban youth language from Nairobi, have led to the growth of a considerable body of literature. In contrast, only a few studies are available that cover other youth registers from the Kiswahili-speaking parts of Africa. While most of the available studies either deal with techniques of manipulation or with adolescents’ identity constructions, our paper intends to give a comparative overview of specific morphological features of Kiswahili-based youth languages. While certain characteristics of Sheng (Nairobi/Kenya), Lugha ya Mitaani (Dar es Salaam/Tanzania), Kindubile (Lubumbashi/DR Congo) and Yabacrâne (Goma/DR Congo) largely d…

Entwicklung der satzinternen Großschreibung kontrastiv

2021

Abstract Während die Entwicklung der satzinternen Großschreibung von Nomina und Nominalisierungen fürs Deutsche gut untersucht ist, stellt sie für viele andere Sprachen, in denen ebenfalls eine (wenn auch kurzlebige) Tendenz zur satzinternen Großschreibung festzustellen ist, ein Forschungsdesiderat dar. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir methodische Überlegungen zur kontrastiven Untersuchung der Entwicklung der satzinternen Großschreibung im Deutschen, Englischen und Niederländischen vor und diskutieren die Ergebnisse erster Pilotstudien. Neben übergreifenden Tendenzen zeigen sich auch deutliche Unterschiede, aus denen sich die Notwendigkeit zu einer differenzierten Betrachtung der einzelsprachl…

Si todos lo dicen, ¿será cierto? La evidencialidad de folclore o acervo común: de la teoría a la investigación sociopragmática

2021

espanolEn este trabajo, se presentan los planteamientos teoricos, la metodologia y los primeros resultados del estudio de la evidencialidad de folclore o acervo comun en corpus de entrevistas semidirigidas PRESEEA. La categoria objeto de estudio se relaciona con los conocimientos compartidos en las comunidades de habla, las creencias generalizadas y la sabiduria popular. Se considera que el empleo de los mecanismos de evidencialidad de folclore es altamente estrategico. Los objetivos del estudio son, por una parte, conocer el rendimiento funcional y patrones linguistico-pragmaticos de este tipo de evidencialidad, y, por otra, y como principal, documentar y analizar patrones sociopragmaticos…

Deep neural attention-based model for the evaluation of italian sentences complexity

2020

In this paper, the Automatic Text Complexity Evaluation problem is modeled as a binary classification task tackled by a Neural Network based system. It exploits Recurrent Neural Units and the Attention mechanism to measure the complexity of sentences written in the Italian language. An accurate test phase has been carried out, and the system has been compared with state-of-art tools that tackle the same problem. The computed performances proof the model suitability to evaluate sentence complexity improving the results achieved by other state-of-the-art systems.