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Unrealistic Feedback in Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Socially prescriptive speech technologies (SPSTs) are technologies that claim to provide feedback to speakers about how other humans perceive their speech and communication style, based on algorithms trained on a set of static, prescriptive standards.
Nicole Holliday
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Pre‐Service Teachers’ Digital Self‐Efficacy Through Self‐Directed Language Learning

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary online language learning typically involves the use of multiple digital platforms. Drawing on digital self‐efficacy and self‐directed learning theories, this study investigates the self‐directed language learning experience of 19 pre‐service teachers as they navigate the affordances of two platforms, Duolingo and ChatGPT.
Yingqiu Chen, Louisa Buckingham
wiley   +1 more source

How L2 Learners Negotiate Meaning in GenAI‐Supported Creative Writing

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This qualitative study explores how second language (L2) learners negotiate meaning and co‐construct knowledge with generative AI (GenAI) in a 12‐week multimodal creative writing project. Chinese middle school students (N = 75) created English picture books using a conversational GenAI agent supporting textual and text‐to‐image generation.
Zhihui Zhang, Scott Aubrey, Zihao Guo, Thomas K. F. Chiu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jaroslav Nicolaevič Gutgarc, Russko–tigrajskij tigrin'ja–russkij razgovornik i slovar' (Ėritreja, Ėfiopija). መምሃሪ ዝርርብ ትግርኛ–ሩስያኛ ሩስያኛ– ትግርኛ ምስ መዝገበ ቓላት

Aethiopica, 2022
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Magdalena Krzyzanowska
doaj  

Information Technologies for the Preservation of Language Heritage

Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage, 2011
In this paper we try to present how information technologies as tools for the creation of digital bilingual dictionaries can help the preservation of natural languages.
Ludmila Dimitrova, Ralitsa Dutsova, Rumiana Panova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hemodynamic Responses to Word Forms in Japanese Infant-Directed Vocabulary in 5- and 9-Month-Old Infants: Early Sensitivity to Prosodic Structure and Emergence of Prosodic Representations. [PDF]

Dev Sci
ABSTRACT The prosodic characteristics of a native language greatly influence early language acquisition. Yet, Japanese mothers are known to use a specific prosodic structure in infant‐directed vocabulary (IDV)—specifically, three‐mora, two‐syllable words with a heavy‐light pattern—which, crucially, differs from the standard prosodic rhythm of adult ...
Akimoto Y, Takahasi M, Yamane N, Tsui RK, Hayashi A, Mazuka R.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht, Núria Esteve‐Gibert   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Lexicographic Treatment of Xitsonga Kinship Terminologies in Selected Bilingual Dictionaries

African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies
Kinship terminologies, which vary across cultures and languages, present challenges for lexicographers in creating bilingual dictionaries. Effective bilingual dictionaries must accurately and comprehensively reflect kinship terms and their equivalents ...
Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa
doaj   +7 more sources

Bilingual Dictionaries

Defining bilingual dictionaries Historical overview: From bilingual glossaries to dictionaries Glossaries and plurilingual tools as witnesses of language formation and contact Bilingual dictionaries: Latin–vernacular and vernacular–vernacular Purpose and target audience Directionality of bilingual dictionaries Internal structure of entries in modern ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Automatic Bilingual Dictionary Construction for Tirukural

Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2018
The Tirukural is a classic Tamil Sangam literature authored by Thiruvalluvar. Tirukural comprises of 1130 kuratpas. It has been translated into 37 world languages. This necessitates the cross-lingual access of Tirukural on the World Wide Web for which a bilingual dictionary is the primary knowledge base (KB). This KB needs to be constructed.
C. N. Subalalitha 0001, E. Poovammal
openaire   +2 more sources