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Towards automatic assessment of spontaneous spoken English
Speech Communication. 2018. Vol. 104. P. 47–56.
Wang Y., Gales M. J., Knill K. M., Kyriakopoulos K., Malinin A., van Dalen R. C., Rashid M.
With increasing global demand for learning English as a second language, there has been considerable interest in methods of automatic assessment of spoken language proficiency for use in interactive electronic learning tools as well as for grading candidates for formal qualifications. This paper presents an automatic system to address the assessment of spontaneous spoken language. Prompts or questions requiring spontaneous speech responses elicit more natural speech which better reflects a learner’s proficiency level than read speech. In addition to the challenges of highly variable non-native, learner, speech and noisy real-world recording conditions, this requires any automatic system to handle disfluent, non-grammatical, spontaneous speech with the underlying text unknown. To handle these, a strong deep learning based speech recognition system is applied in combination with a Gaussian Process …
Zubov V., Осадчая М. А., Риехакайнен Е. И., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Язык и литература 2026 Т. 23 № 1 С. 99–119
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This paper is devoted to the variability of the intonation of interpersonal discourse markers in English debates. The specific characteristics of two types of speech, prepared and spontaneous, are described. Focus is given to stance markers, attitude markers, engagement markers, which play a key role in the process of structuring an oral utterance and establishing ...
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Pushkina A., Krivoshlykova L., Shichina S. et al., , in: INTED2020 Proceedings. 14th International Technology, Education and Development Conference Valencia, Spain. 2-4 March, 2020.: IATED, 2020. P. 184–189.
Phonetic skills are fundamental skills that are to be developed from the initial stage of foreign language learning. Awareness of speaking customs encourages children and boost their motivation. It is widely known that pronunciation should be acquired from an early age to prevent communicative difficulties adult learners may face. The aim of the research is ...
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Antonova Natalia, Khudyakova M., Shibanova Mariya et al., , in: Когнитивная наука в Москве: новые исследования. Материалы конференции 23 – 24 июня 2021.: М.: Институт практической психологии и психоанализа, 2021. Ch. 1 P. 17–21.
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Доклад посвящен процессу и результатам унификации разметки корпуса «Сбалансированная аннотированная текстотека». Данный корпус состоит из нескольких отдельных блоков, репрезентирующих устную речь представителей разных социальных и психологических групп. Для дальнейших лингвистических исследований, а также в целях сравнения данных, полученных на материале иных корпусов, необходимо было унифицировать систему разметки корпуса. На текущем этапе производилась замена основных знаков транскрипции, отмечающих особые явления, свойственные ...
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Ossewaarde R., Jonkers R., Jalvingh F. et al., Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2020 Vol. 63 No. 7 P. 2255–2270
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Corpus analyses of spontaneous language fragments of varying length provide useful insights in the language change caused by brain damage, such as caused by some forms of dementia. Sample size is an important experimental parameter to consider when designing spontaneous language analyses studies. Sample length influences the confidence levels of analyses. Machine learning approaches often ...
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Alexey V. Sosnin, Balakina Y. V., Nizhny Novgorod: ., 2019.
The book is aimed at building up elementary level students’ listening skills; more advanced students can also find certain interesting aspects in it. We have carefully chosen a wide range of assignments covering an extensive grammar and lexical material. It has been our endeavour to supply a variety of recordings where speakers have British, American ...
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Tomas E., Dorofeeva S., Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2019 Vol. 62 No. 12 P. 4483–4496
Purpose
This study investigated methodological and theoretical aspects of using mean length of utterance (MLU) and its alternatives in cross-linguistic research, and in particular its applicability to Russian – a language with opaque grammatical paradigms and rich system of derivational morphology.
Method
Audio recordings of spontaneous speech samples were collected from 27 Russian-speaking children aged between 2;9 and ...
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Rofes A., Talacchi A., Santini B. et al., Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2018 Vol. 40 No. 7 P. 722–732
Background: The relationship between spontaneous speech and formal language testing in people with brain tumors (gliomas) has been rarely studied. In clinical practice, formal testing is typically used, while spontaneous speech is less often evaluated quantitatively. However, spontaneous speech is quicker to sample and may be less prone to test/retest effects, making it a potential ...
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Попова Татьяна Петровна, Лабутова И. В., Nizhny Novgorod: National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2017.
This training manual is addressed to students of higher education institutions, whose level of English is B2 – C1 according to CEFR and whose course of studies requires writing and defending Research Project Proposal in English. The book is aimed at building and development of Academic skills in oral speech considered necessary for the defense ...
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Velikaya E. V., Journal of Language and Education 2017 Vol. 3 No. 1 P. 67–74
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The article focuses on such aspects of oral presentations as pronunciation and intonation, grammatical accuracy and vocabulary and 2nd year ICEF students’ errors which they made at the final exam. Certain techniques which involve explanation of basics of pronunciation and intonation, grammar rules and grammar structures, and teaching fluency are paid attention to. The experiment ...
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Malyutina S., Richardson J., Den Ouden D., Seminars in Speech and Language 2016 Vol. 37 No. 1 P. 34–47
Previous research has found that verb argument structure characteristics (such as the number of participant roles in the situation described by the verb) can facilitate or hinder aphasic language production and comprehension in constrained laboratory tasks. This research needs to be complemented by studies of narrative or unrestricted speech, which can capture the spontaneous selection ...
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