Search results for "speech"

Reading and math skills development among Finnish primary school children before and after COVID-19 school closure

2022

AbstractThis study quantified the possible learning losses in reading and math skills among a sample of Finnish Grade 3 children (n = 198) who spent 8 weeks in distance learning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. We compared their reading and math skill development trajectories across Grades 1, 2, and 4 to a pre-COVID sample (N = 378). We also examined if gender, parental education, maternal homework involvement, and child’s task-avoidant behavior predict children’s academic skills at Grade 4 differently in the pre-COVID sample compared with the COVID sample. Children’s reading and math skills were tested, mothers reported their education and homework involvement…

Language for International Communication: Linking Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2nd international symposium)

2014

This collection contains papers delivered at the 2nd international symposium "Language for International Communication: Linking Interdisciplinary Perspectives" held at the University of Latvia, Latvia, on 23-24 May 2013.

A prosodic analysis of truncated structures in Spanish colloquial conversation: the functions of formulation and mitigation

2018

Este trabajo analiza las características prosódicas de las estructuras truncadas en la conversación coloquial española con el fin de determinar si los rasgos prosódicos son índices predictivos de las funciones de formulación y atenuación. A partir de un estudio de corpus de conversaciones espontáneas, se analizan determinados fenómenos –duración, velocidad de habla, F0, pausas, inflexiones tonales– para elucidar si existe una correlación entre la interfaz prosódica y la pragmática. This study analyses the prosodic features of truncated structures in Spanish colloquial conversation with the aim of determining whether these prosodic features are predictable indices of the pragmatic functions …

Piecgadīgu bērnu runas sekmēšana literāro darbu iepazīšanas procesā

2017

Darba autore: Kintija Lisovska Darba vadītāja: Mg. paed. Aija Kalve Kvalifikācijas darba nosaukums: Piecgadīgu bērnu runas sekmēšana literāro darbu iepazīšanas procesā. Darba mērķis: Pētīt piecgadīgu bērnu runas attīstību literāro darbu iepazīšanas procesa ietekmē. Darba hipotēze: Literāro darbu iepazīšana sekmē bērna valodas attīstību, ja: 1. Lasīšanai tiek izvēlēti vecumposmam atbilstoši un aktuāli daiļdarbi. 2. Pedagoga izvēlētie metodiskie paņēmieni palīdz izprast lasīto saturu un raisa interesi. Kvalifikācijas darbs sastāv no 38 lapaspusēm, kurās ietilpst ievads, teorētiskā daļa, pētnieciskā daļa, secinājumi un viens pielikums, kā arī seši attēli, sešas tabulas un 36 bibliogrāfiskā sar…

Infant brain responses associated with reading-related skills before school and at school age

2011

Summary Introduction In Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia, we have investigated neurocognitive processes related to phonology and other risk factors of later reading problems. Here we review studies in which we have investigated whether dyslexic children with familial risk background would show atypical auditory/speech processing at birth, at six months and later before school and at school age as measured by brain event-related potentials (ERPs), and how infant ERPs are related to later pre-reading cognitive skills and literacy outcome. Patients and methods One half of the children came from families with at least one dyslexic parent (the at-risk group), while the other half belonge…

Reading development subtypes and their early characteristics.

2007

The present findings are drawn from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia (JLD), in which approximately 100 children with familial risk of dyslexia and 100 control children have been followed from birth. In this paper we report data on the reading development of the JLD children and their classmates, a total of 1,750 children from four measurement points during the first two school years. In the total sample, we examined whether heterogeneous developmental paths can be identified based on profiles of word recognition and reading comprehension. Secondly, we studied what kind of early language and literacy skill profiles and reading experiences characterize the children with differing …

The image of vegetables : speeches, representation and consumption habits in France

2018

Since the establishment of the PNNS (National Health Nutrition Program) in 2001 in France, everyone knows that we must eat vegetables daily, and from a very young age, to enjoy a balanced diet. In the country whose "gastronomic meal" was certified in 2010 by the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the food culture has, for twenty years, seen its tradition based on on taste and commensality, disrupted by an increasingly functional approach to nutrition, focused on nutrition and health.The French eater is, in this context, beset by contradictory discourses on food, but which tend for the most part to make him responsible and…

The effects of long-term native language exposure on event-related potential (ERP) components N1 and MMN in typically reading adults

2009

A case study on feature sensitivity for audio event classification using support vector machines

2016

Automatic recognition of multiple acoustic events is an interesting problem in machine listening that generalizes the classical speech/non-speech or speech/music classification problem. Typical audio streams contain a diversity of sound events that carry important and useful information on the acoustic environment and context. Classification is usually performed by means of hidden Markov models (HMMs) or support vector machines (SVMs) considering traditional sets of features based on Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and their temporal derivatives, as well as the energy from auditory-inspired filterbanks. However, while these features are routinely used by many systems, it is not …

Particle Swarm Optimization as a New Measure of Machine Translation Efficiency

2018

The present work proposes a new approach to measuring efficiency of evolutionary algorithm-based Machine Translation. We implement some attributes of evolutionary algorithms performing cosine similarity objective function of a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm then, we evaluate an English text set for translation precision into the Spanish text as a simulated benchmark, and explore the backward process. Our results show that PSO algorithm can be used for translation of multiple language sentences with one identifier only, in other words the technology presented is language-pair independent. Specifically, we indicate that our cosine similarity objective function improves the veloci…