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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 …...

The study of second language speech perception usually put L1-L2 phonological mapping as the rule of thumb in predicting learning outcome, and seldom included more fine-grained aspects such as frequency. …...

This study is a pilot research that explores the effectiveness of a likelihood ratio (LR)-based forensic voice comparison (FVC) system built on non-native speech production. More spe- cifically, it looks …...

“Two literacies and three languages” are used by Hong Kong people. In Hong Kong non- Chinese speaking students are trilingual speakers: they speak their mother language, English and Chinese (Cantonese …...

This study is the first to examine the effect of perceptual training on Mandarin tone sandhi production by Cantonese speakers. Auditory and visual inputs of tone sandhi contrasts were included …...

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 …...

This study aims at attesting and assessing the usage and functional shift of demonstratives in contemporary Hong Kong Cantonese. Preliminary results from a corpus-based comparison show that while demonstratives are …...

Lexical reduplications (LR) in Cantonese are multiword expressions (MWEs) that are frozen and unproductive. The meanings of LR are often non-compositional, such as hung4 bok1 bok1 ‘bright red’, where bok1 …...

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 …...