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Jian Yang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Non-Native Speaker identity verification based on ICA
2010Co-Authors: Hong Wei, Jian YangAbstract:Speaker identity verification is an useful biometric recognition approach. Native Speaker verification has achieved some important progress. But Non-Native Speaker verification remains a challenging task because of wide varieties of Non-Native accents. Based on two speech corpus, one native speech corpus and one Non-Native corpus, by means of Speaker adaptation, Non-Native Speaker identity verification experiments are performed. In our experiments, the traditional Speaker verification method combines with the Non-Native Speaker's independent component speech features. The Speaker features of ICA are showed to be more effective by the final experimental results.
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ICNC (6) - Non-Native Speaker Identity Verification Based on Speech
2008 Fourth International Conference on Natural Computation, 2008Co-Authors: Hong Wei, Jian YangAbstract:Speaker identity verification is an useful biometric recognition approach. Native Speaker verification has achieved some better effects. But Non-Native Speaker verification remains a challenging task because of wide varieties of Non-Native accents. Based on two speech corpus, one native speech corpus and one Non-Native corpus, by means of Speaker adaptation. Combined with traditional Speaker verification and connected digits continuous speech recognition techniques, Non-Native Speaker identity verification experiments are performed. The combined judging strategy is proved to be more effective by the final experimental results.
Muna Morris-adams - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Topic continuity in informal conversations between native and Non-Native Speakers of English
Multilingua, 2013Co-Authors: Muna Morris-adamsAbstract:Topic management by Non-Native Speakers (NNSs) during informal conversations has received comparatively little attention from researchers, and receives surprisingly little attention in second language learning and teaching. This article reports on one of the topic management strategies employed by international students during informal, social interactions with native-Speaker peers, exploring the process of maintaining topic continuity following temporary suspensions of topics. The concept of side sequences is employed to illustrate the nature of different types of topic suspension, as well as the process of jointly negotiating a return to the topic. Extracts from the conversations show that such sequences were not exclusively occasioned by language difficulties, and that the Non-Native Speaker participants were able to effect successful returns to the main topic of the conversations.
Tove Larsson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a functional classification of the introductory it pattern investigating academic writing by non native Speaker and native Speaker students
English for Specific Purposes, 2017Co-Authors: Tove LarssonAbstract:Abstract The introductory it pattern, as in it is important to remember the differences , is a functionally diverse pattern of great importance to academic discourse. However, previous studies have found that using the pattern in an expert-like manner can prove challenging in particular for Non-Native-Speaker students. The present study develops a functional classification in order to investigate what factors may affect the differences in use of the pattern across different groups of students. It maps out the functional distribution of the pattern across three parameters: academic discipline, native-Speaker status (Non-Native-Speaker vs. native-Speaker students) and level of achievement (lower-graded vs. higher-graded NNS student texts). The study uses data from three corpora of student writing: ALEC, BAWE and MICUSP. The results show that there were differences across all three parameters, suggesting that these variables are all important to take into account in studies of this kind. For example, the Non-Native-Speaker students exhibited an uneven command of the subtleties of the pattern, leading to problems with certain functional categories, such as attitude markers (e.g. it is surprising that ) and hedges (e.g. it seems that ), which indicates that this would be a fruitful area to focus on in second language instruction.
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A syntactic analysis of the introductory it pattern in Non-Native-Speaker and native-Speaker student writing
2016Co-Authors: Tove LarssonAbstract:A syntactic analysis of the introductory it pattern in Non-Native-Speaker and native-Speaker student writing
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Introductory it patterns in native-Speaker and Non-Native-Speaker student writing : A syntactic analysis
2014Co-Authors: Tove LarssonAbstract:Introductory it patterns in native-Speaker and Non-Native-Speaker student writing : A syntactic analysis
Hong Wei - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Non-Native Speaker identity verification based on ICA
2010Co-Authors: Hong Wei, Jian YangAbstract:Speaker identity verification is an useful biometric recognition approach. Native Speaker verification has achieved some important progress. But Non-Native Speaker verification remains a challenging task because of wide varieties of Non-Native accents. Based on two speech corpus, one native speech corpus and one Non-Native corpus, by means of Speaker adaptation, Non-Native Speaker identity verification experiments are performed. In our experiments, the traditional Speaker verification method combines with the Non-Native Speaker's independent component speech features. The Speaker features of ICA are showed to be more effective by the final experimental results.
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ICNC (6) - Non-Native Speaker Identity Verification Based on Speech
2008 Fourth International Conference on Natural Computation, 2008Co-Authors: Hong Wei, Jian YangAbstract:Speaker identity verification is an useful biometric recognition approach. Native Speaker verification has achieved some better effects. But Non-Native Speaker verification remains a challenging task because of wide varieties of Non-Native accents. Based on two speech corpus, one native speech corpus and one Non-Native corpus, by means of Speaker adaptation. Combined with traditional Speaker verification and connected digits continuous speech recognition techniques, Non-Native Speaker identity verification experiments are performed. The combined judging strategy is proved to be more effective by the final experimental results.
Evelina Fedorenko - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Don't underestimate the benefits of being misunderstood
Psychological Science, 2017Co-Authors: Edward Gibson, Caitlin Tana, Richard Futrella, Kyle Mahowalda, Lars Konieczny, Barbara Hemforth, Evelina FedorenkoAbstract:Being a Non-Native Speaker of a language poses challenges. Individuals often feel embarrassed by the errors they make when talking in their second language (L2). However, here we report an advantage of being an L2 Speaker: native Speakers give foreign-accented Speakers the benefit of the doubt when interpreting their utterances, such that apparently implausible utterances delivered in a foreign accent are more likely to be interpreted in a plausible way. Across three replicated experiments, we demonstrate that native English Speakers are more likely to interpret implausible utterances such as “the mother gave the candle the daughter” as similar plausible utterances (“the mother gave the candle to the daughter”) when those utterances are produced with a foreign accent. This result follows from the general model of language interpretation in a noisy channel (Gibson et al., 2013), under the hypothesis that listeners assume a higher error rate in foreign-accented speech.
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Don\textquoterightt underestimate the benefits of being misunderstood
Psychological Science, 2017Co-Authors: Edward Gibson, Caitlin Tana, Richard Futrella, Kyle Mahowalda, Lars Konieczny, Barbara Hemforth, Evelina FedorenkoAbstract:Being a Non-Native Speaker of a language poses challenges. Individuals often feel embarrassed by the errors they make when talking in their second language (L2). However, here we report an advantage of being an L2 Speaker: native Speakers give foreign-accented Speakers the benefit of the doubt when interpreting their utterances, such that apparently implausible utterances delivered in a foreign accent are more likely to be interpreted in a plausible way. Across three replicated experiments, we demonstrate that native English Speakers are more likely to interpret implausible utterances such as “the mother gave the candle the daughter” as similar plausible utterances (“the mother gave the candle to the daughter”) when those utterances are produced with a foreign accent. This result follows from the general model of language interpretation in a noisy channel (Gibson et al., 2013), under the hypothesis that listeners assume a higher error rate in foreign-accented speech.