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Establishing levels of arm–hand activities in stroke patients: the arm-hand-activities-scale (AHAS) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Rehabilitation Medicine
Objective: Post-stroke limitations in arm–hand activities are prevalent, yet a system for categorizing these limitations like the Functional Ambulation Categories (FAC) is lacking.
Christina Hebenstreit   +3 more
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Benchmarking Machine Translation Efficacy for Teaching EAP Reading Comprehension Skills [PDF]

open access: yesFanāvarī-i āmūzish, 2023
Background and Objectives: Although Machine Translation (MT) is extensively researched within the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and translation studies, few studies have attempted to implement MT output in foreign language teaching (FLT).
V. Mirzaeian, M. Maghsoudi
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Comprehensive comprehensions [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Haskell workshop, 2007
We propose an extension to list comprehensions that makes it easy to express the kind of queries one would write in SQL using ORDER BY, GROUP BY, and LIMIT. Our extension adds expressive power to comprehensions, and generalises the SQL constructs that inspired it. It is easy to implement, using simple desugaring rules.
Simon Peyton Jones, Philip Wadler
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Interview with Dr. Mary Grantham O’Brien: Looking at comprehensibility as a dynamic construct

open access: yesRevista X, 2021
In this interview, Dr. Mary Grantham O’Brien, from the University of Calgary, discusses the notion of comprehensibility as a dynamic—rather than static—dimension of L2 speech.
Cesar Teló, Mary Grantham O'Brien
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Can L2 Pronunciation Be Evaluated without Reference to a Native Model? Pillai Scores for the Intrinsic Evaluation of L2 Vowels

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
In this article, we explore the possibility of evaluating L2 pronunciation, and, more specifically, L2 vowels, without referring to a native model, i.e., intrinsically.
Paolo Mairano   +2 more
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The impact of automatic speech recognition technology on second language pronunciation and speaking skills of EFL learners: a mixed methods investigation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionThis study employed an explanatory sequential design to examine the impact of utilizing automatic speech recognition technology (ASR) with peer correction on the improvement of second language (L2) pronunciation and speaking skills among ...
Weina Sun
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Alignment in ASR and L1 Listeners’ Recognition of L2 Learner Speech: French EFL Learners & Dictation.Io

open access: yesResearch in Language, 2023
This study is an extension of Inceoglu et al.’s (2023) study on Google Voice Typing as a pronunciation learning tool. We used the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tool on the dictation.io website (Agarwal, 2022), and our participants were L2 English ...
Vincent Chanethom, Alice Henderson
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Comprehensive wealth [PDF]

open access: yesNature Sustainability, 2020
Measuring the full set of society's assets is critical to the design of policies for a sustainable future.
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Vowel Quality and Direction of Stress Shift in a Predictive Model Explaining the Varying Impact of Misplaced Word Stress: Evidence From English

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2021
The use of suprasegmental cues to word stress occurs across many languages. Nevertheless, L1 English listeners' pay little attention to suprasegmental word stress cues and evidence shows that segmental cues are more important to L1 English listeners in ...
Monica Ghosh, John M. Levis
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Comprehensibility assessment using the Karlsruhe comprehensibility concept

open access: yesJoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2009
This article makes a contribution to text and translation quality assessment in the functionalist paradigm. It presents a communication-oriented framework for the evaluation of pragmatic texts including their translations with regard to their ...
Susanne Göpferich
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