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Our results indicate that native Mandarin listeners could understand the English minimal pairs produced by native Mandarin speakers better than native English and EnglishMandarin bilingual listeners did. This is consistent with the findings in Bent

There are many factors influencing the intelligibility of speech for non-native listeners. One of which is called the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit (ISIB) suggested by Bent and Bradlow [1]. They conducted an experiment asking native

Traditional education methodologies, where an instructor teaches non-native learners, might be expensive and constrained with regard to time and space. However, frequent and repetitive practice is necessary for language acquisition. As a result, Computer-Assisted Language

1. System overview The proposed system consists of three parts: pitch accent prediction, pitch accent detection, and feedback (Fig. 3). The prediction part utilizes given sentences to extract syntactic and lexical features and generates pitch

Our English query exemplars have been tagged by the BBN Identifinder (Bike1 et al., 1997) system for named entities. The tagged units which are not found in OUT translation dictionary will be processed by our

We have developed an English-Chinese cross-language spoken document retrieval (CL-SDR) system, where English textual queries are used to retrieve Mandarin spoken documents, i.e. a cross-language and cross-media information retrieval task. With the growing multi-media and

The TaiWaN Asian English Speech cOrpus Project (TWNAESOP) is part of the ongoing multinational (AESOP) whose aim is to build up a consortium of English speech corpus. Each research team will use a common recording

1. Most of students don’t think reading English technological textbooks is easy at the beginning of this class. 2. Most of students don’t think to understand the contents of English technological CD-ROM is easy without

It is essential to teach the technological and vocational courses in English textbooks because the students can be used to reading the technological information before they work, but it is a great challenge to the

Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Course have application in Postgraduate English education of unspecialized English and are created in China. Before June 2008, the education resources published with Postgraduate English Listening and Speaking Course are