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Crawley, Victoria Louise. "Achieving understanding via interpreter participation in sign language/English map task dialogues : an analysis of repair sequences involving ambiguity and underspecificity in signed and spoken modes." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15694/.
Full textNakano, Aiko. "Comparisons of harmony and rhythm of Japanese and English through signal processing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54519.
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Japanese and English speech structures are different in terms of harmony, rhythm, and frequency of sound. Voice samples of 5 native speakers of English and Japanese were collected and analyzed through fast Fourier transform, autocorrelation, and statistical analysis. The harmony of language refers to the spatial frequency content of speech and is analyzed through two different measures, Harmonics-to-Noise-Ratio (HNR) developed by Boersma (1993) and a new parameter "harmonicity" which evaluates the consistency of the frequency content of a speech sample. Higher HNR values and lower harmonicity values mean that the speech is more harmonious. The HNR values are 9.6+0.6Hz and 8.9±0.4Hz and harmonicities are 27±13Hz and 41+26Hz, for Japanese and English, respectively; therefore, both parameters show that Japanese speech is more harmonious than English. A profound conclusion can be drawn from the harmonicity analysis that Japanese is a pitch-type language in which the exact pitch or tone of the voice is a critical parameter of speech, whereas in English the exact pitch is less important. The rhythm of the language is measured by "rhythmicity", which relates to the periodic structure of speech in time and identifies the overall periodicity in continuous speech. Lower rhythmicity values indicate that the speech for one language is more rhythmic than another. The rhythmicities are 0.84±0.02 and 1.35±0.02 for Japanese and English respectively, indicating that Japanese is more rhythmic than English. An additional parameter, the 80th percentile frequency, was also determined from the data to be 1407±242 and 2021±642Hz for the two languages. They are comparable to the known values from previous research.
by Aiko Nakano.
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Vigliotti, Jeanette C. "The Double Sighted: Visibility, Identity, and Photographs on Facebook." UNF Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/506.
Full textSáez, Sáez Natalia. "Auditory discrimination of highly similar L2 english consonant sounds by blind compared to sighted adult spanish speakers." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2012. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/111453.
Full textObjective: To carry out a pilot experiment so as to draw results and research design improvements supporting the hypothesis that sight deprivation, both for long periods of time and only during moments where auditory information is presented (blindfolding), can lead to better auditory discrimination of highly similar L2 English sounds. Method: 8 late blind adults (age M=36), 8 sighted and blindfolded adults (age M=26), and a control group of 8 sighted and not blindfolded adults (age M=31) participated in this study. All participants were Spanish native speakers of Chilean origin, with little knowledge of the English language. The participants attended five sessions, in which they underwent training stages where they were exposed to English words and nonsense words frequently containing 3 pairs of highly similar English consonant sounds. Two types of minimal pair discrimination tests were administered at the end of each session, with and without background noise. All participants’ levels of exposure to street noise, as well as blind participants’ years of blindness and ages of blindness onset were correlated with their test scores. Results: The three groups showed increases in their scores on the minimal pair discrimination tests throughout the five sessions. The Blind Group tended to outperform the two Sighted Groups, especially in the tests with background noise. A strong correlation was found between the levels of exposure to street noise and the average scores on the auditory discrimination tests with background noise for the Blind and Sighted Blindfolded Groups. A tendency for the B Group’s ages of blindness onset to correlate with their test scores was observed, but no correlation was seen for their number of years of blindness. Conclusions: As expected, blind adults exhibited an enhanced potential to auditorily discriminate the highly similar English consonant sounds selected for this study, compared to the blindfolded and not blindfolded sighted groups. Blind participants’ performance on the minimal pair tests with background noise was higher than any other score in this pilot study, which may be mediated by the levels at which they are generally exposed to street noise, their enhanced capacity for Auditory Scene Analysis 2 (Bregman, 1990) and selective attention, which, in turn, are supported by the neural remodeling that they undergo, as reported in the literature. Although the experimental design yielded results that tend to support the hypothesis of this pilot study, further studies with larger population samples should be carried out to validate these findings.
Kudrins, Vitalijs. "Development of Software Library for Open Source GNSS Receiver with Focus on Physical Layer Signal Processing." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Rymdteknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-84772.
Full textKanekama, Yori. "Effects of speechreading and signal-to-noise ratio on understanding mainstream American English by American and Indian adults." Diss., Wichita State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2369.
Full textThesis (Ph.D.)--Wichita State University, College of Health Professions, Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Della, Corte Giuseppe. "Text and Speech Alignment Methods for Speech Translation Corpora Creation : Augmenting English LibriVox Recordings with Italian Textual Translations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413064.
Full textMéli, Adrien. "A longitudinal study of the oral properties of the French-English interlanguage : a quantitative approach of the acquisition of the /ɪ/-/iː/ and /ʊ/-/uː/ contrasts." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCC097/document.
Full textThis study undertakes to assess the evolution of the phonological acquisition of the English /ɪ/-/i:/ and /ʊ/-/u:/ contrasts by French students. The corpus is made up of recordings of spontaneous conversations with native speakers. 12 students, 9 females and 3 males, were recorded over 4 sessions in six-month intervals. The approach adopted here is resolutely quantitative, and agnostic with respect to theories of second language acquisition such as Flege's, Best's or Kuhl's. In order to assess the potential changes in pronunciations, an automatic procedure of alignment and extraction has been devised, based on PRAAT (Boersma 2001). Phonemic and word alignments had been carried out with SPPAS (Bigi 2012) and P2FA (Yuan & Liberman 2008) beforehand. More than 90,000 vowels were thus collected and analysed. The extracted data consist of information such as the number of syllables in the word, the transcription of its dictionary pronunciation, the structure of the syllable the vowel appears in, of the preceding and succeeding phonemes, their places and manners of articulation, whether they belong to the same word or not, but also especially of the F0, F1, F2, F3 and F4 formant values. These values were collected at each centile of the duration of the vowel, in order to be able to take into account of the influences of consonantal environments. Besides, theories such as vowel-inherent spectral changes (Nearey & Assmann (1986), Morrison & Nearey (2006), Hillenbrand (2012), Morrison (2012)), and methods of signal modelling such as discrete cosine transforms (Harrington 2010) need formant values all throughout the duration of the vowel. Then the reliability of the automatic procedure, the per-vowel statistical distributions of the formant values, and the normalization methods appropriate to spontaneous speech are studied in turn. Speaker differences are assessed by analysing spectral changes, mid-temporal formant values and discrete cosine transforms with normalized values. The methods resorted to are the k nearest neighbours, linear and quadratic discriminant analyses and linear mixed effects regressions. A temporary conclusion is that the acquisition of the /ɪ/-/i:/ contrast seems more robust than that of the /ʊ/-/u:/ contrast
Mitra, Jhimli. "Multimodal Image Registration applied to Magnetic Resonance and Ultrasound Prostatic Images." Phd thesis, Université de Bourgogne, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00786032.
Full textCox, Troy L. "Investigating Prompt Difficulty in an Automatically Scored Speaking Performance Assessment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3929.
Full textLeni, Pierre-Emmanuel. "Nouvelles méthodes de traitement de signaux multidimensionnels par décomposition suivant le théorème de Superposition de Kolmogorov." Phd thesis, Université de Bourgogne, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00581756.
Full textMignard, Clément. "SIGA3D : modélisation, échange et visualisation d'objets 3D du bâtiment et d'objets urbains géoréférencés ; application aux IFC pour la gestion technique de patrimoine immobilier et urbain." Phd thesis, Université de Bourgogne, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00842227.
Full textHall, William L. "The In Pulse." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1225066283.
Full textGeldenhuys, Vincent. "A signification in stone the lapis as metaphor for visual hybridisation in the Harry Potter films /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-11132008-191836.
Full textGhose, Soumya. "Robust image segmentation applied to magnetic resonance and ultrasound images of the prostate." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/98524.
Full textLa segmentació de la pròstata en imatge d'ultrasò (US) i de ressonància magnètica (MRI) permet l'estimació del volum, el registre multi-modal i la planificació quirúrgica de biòpsies guiades per imatge. L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és el desenvolupament d'algorismes automàtics per a la segmentació de la pròstata en aquestes modalitats. Es proposa un aprenentatge automàtic inical per obtenir una primera classificació de la pròstata que permet, a continuació, la inicialització i evolució de diferents models deformables. Per imatges d'US, es proposen un model explícit basat en forma i informació regional i un model implícit basat en la minimització d'una funció d'energia. En MRI, les probalitats inicials es fusionen amb una imatge de probabilitat provinent d'una segmentació basada en atlas, i la minimització es realitza mitjançant tècniques de grafs. El resultat final és una significant millora dels algorismes actuals en ambdues modalitats d'imatge.
Affeich, Andrée. "Rupture et continuité dans le discours technique arabe d’Internet." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO20001.
Full textThis research carried out on a corpus which gathers eleven Arab countries, aims at raising problems related to the rupture and continuity within the Arabic terminology of Internet, terminology created in the Anglophone world, more precisely in the United States. The terms “rupture” and “continuity” show a real conflict between two different linguistic systems: the Arabic language system which we call “indigenous system” and the English language system which we call “foreign system”. The image which takes shape is that of two systems playing chess. At the beginning of the game, the knights of the two sides are mobilized quickly. Those of the “foreign system” try to impose elements which we call “elements of rupture”. The latter appear through the linguistic loan phenomenon with its two forms: the integral loan and the acronyms. In response to these “elements of rupture”, the “indigenous system” mobilizes first of all its two knights, i.e. its two morpho-syntactic means: the subsystem of nomination and the subsystem of communication. Then, in order not to collapse, the “indigenous system” fortifies its position using two other processes: the semantic process which is the metaphor and the discursive process which is the rewording. In this study, we are not aiming at saying which of the two systems won. Indeed, within a period of ten years, we followed the evolution of the Arabic terminology of Internet in order to draw conclusions, and more exactly to draw a general tendency in light of changes that this terminology has known, changes which are certainly not final
Швед, Є. В. "Переклад невербальних одиниць в англомовних художніх текстах." Master's thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2022. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/87428.
Full textРабота посвящена исследованию особенностей перевода невербальных единиц в англоязычных художественных текстах. Рассмотрены современные подходы к изучению невербальных коммуникативных единиц, классификации невербальных коммуникативных средств в современном английском языке, функции невербальных коммуникативных средств в художественном тексте, а также проанализирована лексическая репрезентация невербальных знаков в англоязычных текстах. Особое внимание уделено исследованию стратегий и приемов перевода невербальных единиц в англоязычных художественных текстах и анализу трудностей их перевода. Также разработана система упражнений для обучения студентов по переводу невербальных единиц в англоязычных художественных текстах.
The work is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the translation of nonverbal units in English-language literary texts. We considered modern approaches to the study of nonverbal communication units, classification of nonverbal communication tools in modern English, functions of nonverbal communication tools in literary texts, and lexical representation of nonverbal signs in English literary texts. Particular attention is paid to the study of strategies and techniques of translation of nonverbal units in English-language literary texts and analysis of the difficulties of their translation. A system of exercises has also been developed to teach students how to translate nonverbal units in English-language literary texts.
Gayk, Shannon Noelle. ""Sensible signes" mediating images in late medieval literature /." 2005. http://etd.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-07192005-141904/.
Full textMehlenbacher, Alan. "Multiagent system simulations of sealed-sid, English, and treasury auctions." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/255.
Full textMehlenbacher, Alan. "Multiagent system simulations of sealed-bid, English, and treasury auctions." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/255.
Full textCrickmore, Barbara Lee. "An Historical Perpsective On the Academic Education Of Deaf Children In New South Wales 1860s-1990s." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24905.
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Crickmore, Barbara Lee. "An Historical Perpsective On the Academic Education Of Deaf Children In New South Wales 1860s-1990s." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24905.
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