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Journal of Educational Measurement, Volume 63, Issue 1, Spring 2026.Abstract This article addresses bias in Spoken Language Systems (SLS) that involve both Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and reports experiments to improve the performance of SLS for automated language and literacy‐related assessments with students who are under served in the U.S. educational system.
Alison L. Bailey +5 more
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LanguagesThis paper aims to investigate the Thai monophthong pronunciation of Chinese students speaking Thai as a second language (L2), and to examine how native Thai listeners perceived these Chinese-accented Thai monophthongs.
Peng Hou, Sarawut Kraisame
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Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Indonesian Vowel Systems
Humanus: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu-ilmu Humaniora, 2020 In Chinese and Indonesian languages, a syllable is composed of consonants and vowels. Many researchers have focused on studying consonants and paid less attention to vowels.
Haryono Candra, Yusup Gumilar Sukma
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2011 We conducted a neurophysiological study of attempted speech production in a paralyzed human volunteer using chronic microelectrode recordings. The volunteer suffers from locked-in syndrome leaving him in a state of near-total paralysis, though he ...
Jonathan S Brumberg +7 more
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TEMPORAL PROSODIC PECULIARITIES OF DIALECT SCOUSE SPEAKERS
Записки з романо-германської філології, 2020 The article investigates temporal characteristics of Scouse dialect speech, or Liverpool English, which is spread in the county of Merseyside in the North West of England.
В. С. Григораш
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 409-427, November 2025.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Linguistic phenomena in the speech from the South of Goias: conditioning factors
Entrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2016 Noting the current linguistic portrait of sulgoiana region, it is clear that three phenomena have shown a considerable number of occurrences, diphthongization, monophthongization and deletion of occlusive / d /.
Elisama Borges LINO +3 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 719-728, May 2025.ABSTRACT Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) frequently experience difficulties in articulating English rising diphthongs, thereby hindering their speech efficacy in communication. This research employed an empirical approach to examine the accuracy rate exhibited by Chinese EFL learners while producing five English rising ...
PAN Pan, WU Xiaojing, WANG Jiaying
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