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MANGANELLI SCONCLUSIONATO. UN CONVEGNO A PALERMO
2022
Il contributo illustra il carattere scientifico del convegno organizzato a Palermo il 19-20 maggio 2022 e passa in rassegna i singoli saggi dei relatori ospiti del convegno, inquadrandoli nelle varie linee di poetica dello scrittore e valorizzandone gli aspetti di originalità nel contesto degli studi su Manganelli
Speaker variables and their relation to language change
2018
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the relationship between variation processes and linguistic change and the speaker variables identified by Romance sociolinguistic studies. In particular, Romance sociolinguistics focuses on three different points of view: the socio-biographical characteristics of the speaker; the varieties related to social differences, and the relation between social groups and linguistic repertoire. In our work, we will study the socio-biographical characteristics, that Anglo-American linguistics defines as “speaker variables”, analyzing those variables more closely related in Romance studies to the diastratic vari-ation (age, sex/gender, social class). In certain ca…
PRODUCTION OF THE SPANISH VOWEL SYSTEM BY CHINESE SPEAKERS
2018
RESUMEN En este trabajo se comparan los sistemas vocálicos del español y del chino pronunciados por hablantes nativos con el objetivo de presentar a continuación las peculiaridades del sistema vocálico español de un grupo de estudiantes de China con un nivel intermedio de español. El estudio de las similitudes y las diferencias entre los sistemas nativos nos ha permitido prever en qué áreas pueden diferir las vocales pronunciadas por aprendices chinos de las vocales españolas. Los resultados indican que el sistema vocálico español de los estudiantes chinos es estructuralmente similar al sistema nativo, pero con algunas diferencias fonéticas: en primer lugar, tiene una extensión mayor por lo…
Using privacy-transformed speech in the automatic speech recognition acoustic model training
2020
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) requires huge amounts of real user speech data to reach state-of-the-art performance. However, speech data conveys sensitive speaker attributes like identity that can be inferred and exploited for malicious purposes. Therefore, there is an interest in the collection of anonymized speech data that is processed by some voice conversion method. In this paper, we evaluate one of the voice conversion methods on Latvian speech data and also investigate if privacy-transformed data can be used to improve ASR acoustic models. Results show the effectiveness of voice conversion against state-of-the-art speaker verification models on Latvian speech and the effectivene…
Esseri di discorso. Su tre attori dell’enunciazione.
2020
The paper aims at explaining the metalinguistic role of three enunciative figures: 1) the speaker (or “sujet parlant”); 2) the locutor; 3) the enunciator.
Yleisten kielitutkintojen arvioijien käsityksiä thainkieliseksi tunnistettujen suomenoppijoiden suullisesta kielitaidosta
2020
Artikkelissa tarkastellaan sitä, miten thainkielisten suomenoppijoiden (N=10) ensikielen tunnistaminen vaikuttaa Yleisten kielitutkintojen (YKI) suomen arvioijien (N=44) käsityksiin kielitaidosta ja millaisia käsityksiä arvioijilla on thainkielisten suullisesta kielitaidosta. Artikkelin aineisto liittyy Rikkinäistä suomea-hankkeeseen, jossa thainkieliset oli yksi tutkimukseen osallistuneesta ensikielen ryhmittymästä. Artikkelissa määrällisen aineiston avulla tarkastellaan tunnistamista ja arvioinnissa käytettyjen kuuden analyyttisen arviointikriteerin käyttöä. Laadullinen aineisto koostuu arvioijien kirjoittamista ensikielen tunnistamiseen ja oppijoiden kielitaitoon liittyvistä huomioista, …
Perception and replication of planar sonic gestures
2012
As tables, boards, and walls become surfaces where interaction can be supported by auditory displays, it becomes important to know how accurately and effectively a spatial gesture can be rendered by means of an array of loudspeakers embedded in the surface. Two experiments were designed and performed to assess: (i) how sequences of sound pulses are perceived as gestures when the pulses are distributed in space and time along a line; (ii) how the timing of pulses affects the perceived and reproduced continuity of sequences; and (iii) how effectively a second parallel row of speakers can extend sonic gestures to a two-dimensional space. Results show that azimuthal trajectories can be effectiv…
Senti chi parla. Su un aspetto dell’attività di parola a partire da Lacan.
2017
Tēlainas valodas elementi TED prezentācijās
2020
Šī bakalaura darba mērķis bija atklāt, kāds ir iemesls, kāpēc epiteti, metaforas un hiperbolas tiek izmantotas TED prezentācijās, kas tālāk iedalās kādu epitetu un metaforu veidi tika izmantoti šajās prezentācijās, un atklāt, kad šie trīs specifiskie tēlainas valodas elementi tiek izmantoti. Izpētot šī pētījuma teorētisko daļu, kas sastāvēja no vairāku autoru sniegtajām definīcijām, tika secināts, ka šie trīs tēlainas valodas elementi publiskajās runās veic ievērojamu lomu, pievienojot tēlainību, vērš uzmanību un izplata informāciju. Un pēc daudzu TED prezentāciju videoierakstu novērošanas, divdesmit no tām tika izvēlētas tālākai izmeklēšanai, kur kļuva skaidrs, ka visi no tiem ietver vairā…
A General Fuzzy-Parsing Scheme for Speech Recognition
1985
In this paper a Speech Recognition Methodology is proposed which is based on the general assumption of ‘fuzzyness’ of both speech-data and knowledge-sources. Besides this general principle, there are other fundamental assumptions which are also the bases of the proposed methodology: ‘Modularity’ in the knowledge organization, ‘Homogeneity’ in the representation of data and knowledge, ‘Passiveness’ of the ‘understanding flow’ (no backtraking or feedback), and ‘Parallelism’ in the recognition activity.