Robot speech: how variability matters for child–robot interactions [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AISpoken language is one of the most powerful tools for humans to learn, exchange information, and build social relationships. An inherent feature of spoken language is large within- and between-speaker variation across linguistic levels, from sound ...
Adriana Hanulíková +2 more
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A hypothesis on improving foreign accents by optimizing variability in vocal learning brain circuits [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015 Rapid vocal motor learning is observed when acquiring a language in early childhood, or learning to speak another language later in life. Accurate pronunciation is one of the hardest things for late learners to master and they are almost always left with
Anna J Simmonds
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Evidentiality, Assertional Force and Common Ground Management in Conchucos Quechua
Indiana, 2023 The literature on Quechuan languages describes the enclitics =mi and =chi as markers of evidentiality, with the former indicating direct evidence and the latter marking conjecture or inference.
Raúl Bendezú-Araujo
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Internet communication and language dynamics and norm
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Linguistica, 2022 The purpose of the research the results of which are presented in the article is to show the language dynamics taking place under the influence of internet communication and in internet communication, on the example of selected syntax structures ...
Ewa Szkudlarek-Śmiechowicz
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Lexical variation as a factor in the differentiation of closely related languages (on the problem of Belarusian-Russian language interaction and mutual influence) [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2019 The article considers the issues of lexical variability in the modern Belarusian standard language taking into account the peculiarities of its historical development and function, describes the types of lexical variants and reveals the reasons ...
Lukashanets Alexander A.
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Individual differences in the language task-evoked and resting-state functional networks
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 The resting state functional network is highly variable across individuals. However, inter-individual differences in functional networks evoked by language tasks and their comparison with resting state are still unclear.
Xin Liu, Liu Yang
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Intoxication and pitch control in tonal and non-tonal language speakers [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2022 Alcohol intoxication is known to affect pitch variability in non-tonal languages. In this study, intoxication's effects on pitch were examined in tonal and non-tonal language speakers, in both their native language (L1; German, Korean, Mandarin) and ...
Kevin Tang +6 more
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Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2020 Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) focuses on second language development (SLD) as opposed to second language acquisition (SLA). Emphasising internal complexity of the language system as well as dynamic and non-linear nature of language development ...
Katarzyna Joanna Rokoszewska
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Evaluating Unsupervised Dutch Word Embeddings as a Linguistic Resource [PDF]
, 2016 Word embeddings have recently seen a strong increase in interest as a result of strong performance gains on a variety of tasks. However, most of this research also underlined the importance of benchmark datasets, and the difficulty of constructing these ...
Daelemans, Walter +2 more
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Speaker Input Variability Does Not Explain Why Larger Populations Have Simpler Languages. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 A learner's linguistic input is more variable if it comes from a greater number of speakers. Higher speaker input variability has been shown to facilitate the acquisition of phonemic boundaries, since data drawn from multiple speakers provides more ...
Mark Atkinson, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
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