Mandarin

Bilingual or Multilingual speech recognition gradually becomes an attractive research topic because bilingual writings appear almost everywhere in present day. In this paper, we propose a continuous word-based speech recognition …...

The count-mass distinction often served as a test case for asking how syntax and semantics are related, whether knowledge of one helps the acquisition of the other. Virtually no studies …...

This paper introduces the use of speech translation technology for a new type of voice-interactive Computer Aided Lan- guage Learning (CALL) application. We describe a computer game we have devel- …...

. When presented with an entity (e.g., a wooden honey-dipper) labeled with a novel noun, how does a listener know that the noun refers to an instance of an object …...

. Going cross-linguistic is a an important but challenging track for validating a com- putational model of lexical organization. Our starting point is a computational model that has been established …...

AbstractThis paper aims at assessing the automatic labeling of an undocumented, unknown, unwritten and under-resourced language (Mo Piu) of the North Vietnam, by an expert phonetician. In the previous stage …...

This paper proposes cross-lingual language modeling for transcribing source resource- poor languages and translating them into tar- get resource-rich languages if necessary. Our focus is to improve the speech recognition …...

This study examines the sound profiles of sites of initiation in French and Mandarin recycling repair (also disfluent repetitions). 150 examples of disfluent repetitions were extracted from comparative speech corpora …...

Given that Mandarin is a verb-serializing language, Russian a satellite-framed language, and Spanish a verb-framed language, the current study examines Mandarin college students’ acquisition of Russian and Spanish as L2, …...

The use of an obligatory numeral classifier (C) on N in general does not co-occur with mandatory plural marking (PM) (Greenberg 1990[1972], Sanches and Slobin 1973). Borer (2005) and Her …...

This paper probes into the issue of de- verbalization in Chinese by starting from two potential and innovative uses of de- verbalization in Mainland Mandarin and Taiwan Mandarin, respectively. Then, …...

AbstractSpeakers often have more than one way to express the same meaning. What general principles govern speaker choice in the face of optionality when near semantically invariant alternation exists? Studies …...

This paper describes an approach for translation between Chinese dialects that can produce target sentences at different registers. We focus on Mandarin as the source language, and Cantonese as the …...

AbstractWe report our work on building linguistic resources and data-driven parsers in the grammatical relation (GR) analysis for Mandarin Chinese. Chinese, as an analytic language, encodes grammatical information in a …...

AbstractEmotion stimulus detection is the task of finding the cause of an emotion in a textual description, similar to target or aspect detection for sentiment analysis. Previous work approached this …...

Crosslinguistic comparison of VOT has indicated linguistic transfer of voicing and aspiration contrasts in many languages. Mandarin has clear aspiration contrasts for voiceless stops, while Min presents another complicated VOT …...

AbstractThe WeCanTalk (WCT) Corpus is a new multi-language, multi-modal resource for speaker recognition. The corpus contains Cantonese, Mandarin and English telephony and video speech data from over 200 multilingual speakers …...