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An approach to David's Abercombie's point of view on the teaching of pronunciations for Brazilian students

open access: yesRevista Principia, 1998
This paper has the objective of showing how pronunciation teaching should be in relation to children and adults according to David Abercombie's point of view [...].
Élida de Oliveira Barros Pessoa
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Accent Choices of English Majors in the Netherlands: Patterns and Motivations

open access: yesJournal of Linguistics and Language Teaching, 2021
This paper investigated the accent choices and realisations of first-year students of English in the Netherlands and linked these choices to the social identity, or persona, they wished to express in English.
Gezina Christien Dorothé Huttenga   +1 more
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Vowel Quality and Vowel Length in English as a Lingua Franca in Spain

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2018
In today’s globalised world, the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a reality. Given the fact that pronunciation deviations from the native-speaker norm are one of the main causes of communication breakdown (Jenkins 2000), it feels necessary to ...
María Ángeles Jurado-Bravo
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Intelligence

open access: yesDialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 1994
AbstractIntelligence is the ability to learn from past experience and, in general, to adapt to, shape, and select environments. Aspects of intelligence are measured by standardized tests of intelligence. Average raw (number‐correct) scores on such tests vary across the life span and also across generations, as well as across ethnic and socioeconomic ...
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Watershed of Artificial Intelligence: Human Intelligence, Machine Intelligence, and Biological Intelligence

open access: yes, 2021
This article reviews the "Once learning" mechanism that was proposed 23 years ago and the subsequent successes of "One-shot learning" in image classification and "You Only Look Once - YOLO" in objective detection. Analyzing the current development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the proposal is that AI should be clearly divided into the following ...
Weigang, Li   +3 more
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Behavioral evidence for the role of cortical theta oscillations in determining auditory channel capacity for speech

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Studies on the intelligibility of time-compressed speech have shown flawless performance for moderate compression factors, a sharp deterioration for compression factors above three, and an improved performance as a result of repackaging – a process of ...
Oded eGhitza
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Intelligibility-based Instruction and English as a lingua franca

open access: yesResearch in Language
This paper draws heavily from my previous work on intelligibility (Hodgetts, 2020). It advocates basing pronunciation instruction on intelligibility goals, rather than native-like production goals and investigates the research available on the segmental
John Hodgetts
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All intelligence is collective intelligence

open access: yesJournal of Multiscale Neuroscience, 2023
Collective intelligence, broadly conceived, refers to the adaptive behavior achieved by groups through the interactions of their members, often involving phenomena such as consensus building, cooperation, and competition. The standard view of collective intelligence is that it is a distinct phenomenon from supposed individual intelligence.
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Practical Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and Social Intelligence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Over the years, practical intelligence, social intelligence, and especially emotional intelligence have received substantial attention in both the academic and practitioner literatures. However, at the same time, these individual dierence “constructs†have also fueled controversies and criticisms, including their applications to employee selection ...
LIEVENS, Filip, CHAN, David
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ChatCFD: A Large Language Model‐Driven Agent for End‐to‐End Computational Fluid Dynamics Automation with Structured Knowledge and Reasoning

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Chat computational fluid dynamics (CFD) introduces an large language model (LLM)‐driven agent that automates OpenFOAM simulations end‐to‐end, attaining 82.1% execution success and 68.12% physical fidelity across 315 benchmarks—far surpassing prior systems.
E Fan   +8 more
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