In this paper,Modified Multi-scale Segmentation Network(MMU-SNet)method is proposed for Tamil text recognition.Handwritten texts from digi-tal writing pad notes are used for text recognition.Handwritten words recognit...
supported by the 10th Chinese Foreign Language Education Fund,No.ZGWYJYJJ10A122
This paper discusses how Chinese speakers produce English sonorant consonants embedded in syllable structures novel to them.It shows that speakers may simulate target second language(L2)sounds based on acoustically si...
With the development of internet and the increase of internet users,internet language develops rapidly.Many new words,new idioms and new constructions are derived from the internet,which enriches the expressional func...
Songs are composed of music and lyrics.The Chinese word Shige means poetry plus songs which could be an evidence of the inner kinship between poetry and songs.“Translating”and“dubbing”are the two steps to translat...
Song plays a fundamental role in intraspecific communication in songbirds.The temporal and structural components of songs can vary in different habitats.These include urban habitats where anthropogenic sounds and alte...
This paper analyses the chanting of 21 five-syllable modem-style poems, which is Chinese traditional style of poem reciting with cadence and pleasant melody, in order to fmd out the prosodic hierarchy according to pau...
Hausa and Bole are two languages from the same phylum i.e. Afro-asiatic. They have some common various linguistic features, most especially phonological and syntactic features. The main purpose of this paper is to com...
The English spoken by a typical Malaysian tends to have a simplified sounds system, which makes the speaker unintelligible to native and other English speakers. This paper discusses the mispronunciations of vowels and...
Through the discussion and comparative research on theories, types and uses of English intonation, it is found that intonation is an indispensable part of oral communications. Proper use of intonation lies in knowing ...
Acoustic analysis and synthesis experiments have shown that duration and intonation patterns are the two most important prosodic features responsible for the quality of synthesized speech. In this paper a set of featu...