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The automatic analysis of classroom talk
2017
The SMART SPEECH Project is a joint venture between three Finnish universities and a Chilean university. The aim is to develop a mobile application that can be used to record classroom talk and enable observations to be made of classroom interactions. We recorded Finnish and Chilean physics teachers’ speech using both a conventional microphone/dictator setup and a microphone/mobile application setup. The recordings were analysed via automatic speech recognition (ASR). The average word error rate achieved for the Finnish teachers’ speech was under 40%. The ASR approach also enabled us to determine the key topics discussed within the Finnish physics lessons under scrutiny. The results here we…
BALANCE PROPERTIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF SQUARES IN CIRCULAR WORDS
2010
We study balance properties of circular words over alphabets of size greater than two. We give some new characterizations of balanced words connected to the Kawasaki-Ising model and to the notion of derivative of a word. Moreover we consider two different generalizations of the notion of balance, and we find some relations between them. Some of our results can be generalized to non periodic infinite words as well.
Congenital double lip associated to hemangiomas: Report of a case
2004
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Understanding the role of cross-language transfer of phonological awareness in emergent Hindi–English biliteracy acquisition
2022
AbstractThis study examined within and cross-language relations, and specifically, the role of phonological awareness (PA) skills in reading among young Hindi-speaking children (L1) who were learning to read English (L2) in Delhi, India. Data was collected from 143 children in Grades 1 and 2 using measures validated for this population. The analyses examined the associations between L1 and L2 PA and decoding, both within and across the two languages. The results showed that PA skills within each language significantly predicted decoding in that language. Furthermore, there was evidence of cross-language transfer with Hindi PA significantly predicting English word reading even after controll…
Socio-emotional Problems Experienced by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Ethiopia
2015
This study compares the socio-emotional problems experienced by deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students with those of hearing students in Ethiopia. The research involved a sample of 103 grade 4 students attending a special school for the deaf, a special class for the deaf and a regular school. Socio-emotional problems were measured using Goodman's self-report measure, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for children and adolescents. Participants were selected from seven towns in Ethiopia. The results show that, compared to the hearing sample, the DHH students experienced more severe socio-emotional problems across all dimensions, regardless of whether they were in special classes o…
Soziale Medien als fünfte Gewalt: Strategische Organisation deutscher und finnischer Gegenredekampagnen auf Facebook
2023
Social media, as the fifth estate, increasingly influence public discourses and play a major role in shaping public opinion. Undoubtedly, they have the potential to promote participation and democracy. On the other side, they also constitute a risk for democratic societies, as the spread of hate speech and fake news has shown. As a response, forms of counterspeech organised by civil society have emerged in social media to counter the normalisation of hate speech and democracy-threatening discourses. In order to influence discourse in social media in terms of the fifth estate, counterspeech campaigns must be visible also quantitatively. In this ethnographic contrastive study, I analysed…
Revista de logopedia, foniatría y audiología
2011
Resumen Numerosas investigaciones han respaldado que los problemas en la lectura de palabras y la pobre competencia linguistica se asocian con dificultades en la comprension lectora, mientras que el rol de las funciones ejecutivas ha sido escasamente explorado. El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar el poder predictivo de diferentes factores cognitivos sobre el rendimiento en un test de procesos de comprension lectora de cuatro grupos diferentes: trastorno por deficit de atencion con hiperactividad, dificultades de comprension lectora y ambos trastornos y un grupo de comparacion. Se evaluo el vocabulario, comprension oral, acceso al lexico, memoria verbal y espacial, inhibicion, atencion y…
Revista de logopedia, foniatría y audiología
2011
Resumen En este articulo se expone el proceso de evaluacion e intervencion realizado en un caso clinico de dispraxia verbal asociada a trastorno por deficit de atencion con hiperactividad (TDAH), subtipo combinado. En el TDAH se producen deficit en el control inhibitorio comportamental que inciden en el control, la fluencia y la sintaxis de la ejecucion de secuencias motoras complejas, como las de la articulacion del habla. Durante el desarrollo del lenguaje es probable que las caracteristicas del TDAH no favorezcan el control propioceptivo articulatorio y, en ocasiones, contribuyen a perfilar un cuadro sintomatologico de dispraxia verbal. La dispraxia verbal comporta una dificultad para cr…
Die deutsche Sprache in Oberschlesien am Beispiel des Sprachinseldeutschen von Kostenthal/Gościęcin
2017
As one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, German is not any way a uniform from of communication. The present contribution will deal with German in Silesia particularly the German spoken in the Upper Silesian language island (Sprachinsel) of Kostenthal (Gościęcin). Following an introduction to the historical development of this language island. I will present several particularities of this German variety. The idiosyncrasies of the base dialect of Kostenthal that are reflected in the predominant German Umgangssprache spoken locally today will then be shown.
Pilna teikuma definīciju analīze 'Kobilda' vārdnīcās
2021
Šajā bakalaura darbā tiek pētītas pilna teikuma definīcijas un to īpatnības KOBILDA vārdnīcās. KOBILDA pilna teikuma definēšanas stils kļuva par pavērsienu vārdnīcu pasaulē, piedāvājot pilnīgi jaunu pieeju vārdnīcu rakstīšanai. Tādējādi bakalaura darbā ir iekļauti secinājumi, kas atspoguļo lietotāju attieksmi pret KOBILDA definīciju. Darba empīriskā pētījuma metode ir gadījumu izpēte, datu vākšanas tehnika – aptaujas anketēšana, kas ir analizēta no kvalitatīvā un kvantitatīvā viedokļa. Analīze atklāj, ka pilna teikuma definīcijas nav priekšroka salīdzinājumā ar citiem definīciju veidiem, jo lielākā daļa respondentu dod priekšroku tradicionālākiem definēšanas stiliem. Turklāt analīze rāda, k…