An Improved Framework for Recognizing Highly Imbalanced Bilingual Code-switched Lectures with Cross-language Acoustic Modeling and Frame-level Language Identification

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-feng Yeh ◽  
Lin-shan Lee
Keyword(s):  
Language Identification ◽  
Acoustic Modeling ◽  
Cross Language

Cross-Language Acoustic Modeling for Macedonian Speech Technology Applications

2013 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Ivan Kraljevski ◽  
Guntram Strecha ◽  
Matthias Wolff ◽  
Oliver Jokisch ◽  
Slavcho Chungurski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Modeling ◽  
Speech Technology ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
Cross Language

scholarly journals Double-Sided Transformations of Culture-Bound Constituents in William Saroyan’s Cross-Cultural Domain

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Gayane Gasparyan
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Language Identification ◽  
Native America ◽  
Cognitive Level ◽  
Actual Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Manner ◽  
Cultural Domain ◽  
Linguistic Level ◽  
Cross Language

The article focuses on the transformations, which occur in Russian and Armenian translations of culture-bound constituents in W. Saroyan’s fiction with special reference to the analysis of their pragmatic value and both cross-cultural and cross-language identification. The aim of the analysis is to reveal the so-called Saroyanesque identity and the translation perspectives of his specific manner of reproducing the actual reality, his personal vision of the world he lived in and created in, the world which combined the environment, circumstances, conditions, characters, cultures, ethnicity of two different communities – his native Armenian and no less native America. The so-called double-sided transformations of culture-bound constituents occur in W. Saroyan’s fiction at basically two levels: the cognitive level of ethnic and mental indicators transformations and the linguistic level of culture-bound elements translation (words, phrases, exclamations etc.). To keep Saroyanesque identity the translators should primarily transform the ideas, the concepts, the ethnic mentality of the characters, then the language media should undergo certain pragmatic modification to be correctly interpreted by the target audience.

Psychometric Parameters of the Spanish Version of the Kuwait University Anxiety Scale (S-KUAS)1

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek ◽  
Joaquin Tomás-Sabádo ◽  
Juana Gómez-Benito
Keyword(s):  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Spanish Version ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Kuwait University ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Arabic And English ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
Language Equivalence

Summary: To construct a Spanish version of the Kuwait University Anxiety Scale (S-KUAS), the Arabic and English versions of the KUAS have been separately translated into Spanish. To check the comparability in terms of meaning, the two Spanish preliminary translations were thoroughly scrutinized vis-à-vis both the Arabic and English forms by several experts. Bilingual subjects served to explore the cross-language equivalence of the English and Spanish versions of the KUAS. The correlation between the total scores on both versions was .93, and the t value was .30 (n.s.), denoting good similarity. The Alphas and 4-week test-retest reliabilities were greater than .84, while the criterion-related validity was .70 against scores on the trait subscale of the STAI. These findings denote good reliability and validity of the S-KUAS. Factor analysis yielded three high-loaded factors of Behavioral/Subjective, Cognitive/Affective, and Somatic Anxiety, equivalent to the original Arabic version. Female (n = 210) undergraduates attained significantly higher mean scores than their male (n = 102) counterparts. For the combined group of males and females, the correlation between the total score on the S-KUAS and age was -.17 (p < .01). By and large, the findings of the present study provide evidence of the utility of the S-KUAS in assessing trait anxiety levels in the Spanish undergraduate context.

"A cross-language study of decontextualized vocabulary comprehension in toddlerhood and kindergarten readiness": Correction to Friend et al. (2018).

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 1289-1289
Author(s):  
Margaret Friend ◽  
Erin Smolak ◽  
Yushuang Liu ◽  
Diane Poulin-Dubois ◽  
Pascal Zesiger
Keyword(s):  
Kindergarten Readiness ◽  
Language Study ◽  
Vocabulary Comprehension ◽  
Cross Language
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