HMM based TTS for mixed language text

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Shuang ◽  
Shiyin Kang ◽  
Yong Qin ◽  
Lirong Dai ◽  
Lianhong Cai
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Language ◽  
Language Text

Inter-lingual homograph letter detection in mixed language text: Persistent missing-letter effects and the effect of language switching

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
SETH N. GREENBERG ◽  
JEAN SAINT-AUBIN
Keyword(s):  
Sentence Context ◽  
Function Word ◽  
Letter Detection ◽  
Language Switching ◽  
Mixed Language ◽  
Language Text

Heretofore, we learned that bilinguals better detected letters in inter-lingual homographs when the context language ascribed a content role to the homograph as compared to a function role. In previous work the target homographs appeared in passages that were of a single language. The present work investigated whether this letter detection pattern would hold if both languages were activated by intermixing languages in a passage. Results suggested that despite intermixing of languages that would excite competing function and content meanings, local sentence context was sufficient to engender a content over function word advantage for inter-lingual homographs that was reminiscent of that obtained with homogenous text.

Gender assignment to Spanish-English mixed DPs

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Casielles-Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Oral Discourse ◽  
Gender Assignment ◽  
Spanish Translation ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Determiner Phrases ◽  
Translation Equivalent ◽  
Mixed Language ◽  
Language Text ◽  
Masculine Gender

Abstract Previous studies on gender assignment to Spanish-English mixed Determiner Phrases (DPs) have noticed a tendency to default to the masculine gender (e.g. el store). However, some studies have revealed that other factors such as the gender of the Spanish translation equivalent (analogical criterion) are also relevant, particularly in written discourse (e.g. la conference). Further, it has been hypothesized that feminine-marked mixed DPs in oral discourse, which are viewed as exceptions to the default gender strategy, should be highly restricted to singleton switches (Valdés Kroff 2016). This paper investigates if feminine-marked mixed DPs are restricted to singleton switches in written discourse by analyzing a mixed-language text, which contains both types of switches (singleton and multiword). The results confirm the importance of the analogical criterion in written discourse and show that feminine-marked DPs are not restricted to singleton switches, and that the analogical criterion is relevant to both singleton and multiword switches.

CONTEXTUAL SUBTEXT INFORMATION OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXT: HERMENEUTIC APPROACH

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (30) ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Lidiya Derbenyova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Transmission Of Information ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Trial And Error Method ◽  
Problems Of Translation ◽  
Error Method ◽  
Language Text

The article focuses on the problems of translation in the field of hermeneutics, understood as a methodology in the activity of an interpreter, the doctrine of the interpretation of texts, as a component of the transmission of information in a communicative aspect. The relevance of the study is caused by the special attention of modern linguistics to the under-researched issues of hermeneutics related to the problems of transmission of foreign language text semantics in translation. The process of translation in the aspect of hermeneutics is regarded as the optimum search and decision-making process, which corresponds to a specific set of functional criteria of translation, which can take many divergent forms. The translator carries out a number of specific translation activities: the choice of linguistic means and means of expression in the translation language, replacement and compensation of nonequivalent units. The search for the optimal solution itself is carried out using the “trial and error” method. The translator always acts as an interpreter. Within the boundaries of a individual utterance, it must be mentally reconstructed as conceptual situations, the mentally linguistic actions of the author, which are verbalized in this text.

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COGNITIVE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES (CALLS) TO HELP THE STUDENTS IN RECOGNIZING THE LEXICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE STUDENTS TRANSLATION

JURNAL ELINK ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diah Astuty
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Academic Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Source Language ◽  
Lexical Constraints ◽  
Language Text

his study aims to describe the sorts of lexical constraints that appeared on the students translation when translating some source language texts into some target language texts. The competence of linguistic fields that the students have acquired is in the fact assumed to be inadequate and it can cause the lexical constraints.Keywords: CALLS, lexical constraints,source language text,target language text

La traducción del lenguaje figurado: figuras de dicción y de pensamiento en la obra de François Villon

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-155
Author(s):  
Beatriz Martínez Ojeda
Keyword(s):  
Figurative Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Poetry Translation ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Francois Villon ◽  
Language Text

AbstractThe current article primarily aims at analysing the strategies utilised by quintessential translators of F. Villon to render into Spanish the figures of diction and thought that characterise the poetry of the 14th-century author, following the classical classification proposed by Abrams (1953). A second objective is to suggest a set of guidelines on how to translate the figurative use of discourse into a given target-language text. Accordingly, this article will first provide an overview on the most relevant approaches to poetry translation, which especially concern relaying the figurative language of a source into a target-language text. Moreover, it will analyse a set of examples that best illustrate the distinctive use of rhetorical devices by Villon, and will examine the ways to better transforming them into another target language, namely Spanish. Lately, this article will propose a set of translation guidelines for both the figures of diction and thought that permeate his poetry.

Morality Classification in Natural Language Text

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Matheus C. Pavan ◽  
Vitor G. Santos ◽  
Alex G. J. Lan ◽  
Joao Martins ◽  
Wesley Ramos Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Natural Language Text ◽  
Language Text

scholarly journals ¡Hola! Nice to Meet You: Language Mixing and Biographical Information Processing

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 703
Author(s):  
Eneko Antón ◽  
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Initial Exposure ◽  
Delayed Recall ◽  
Immediate Recall ◽  
Mixed Language ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Social Encounters ◽  
Bilingual Communities ◽  
Language Context

In bilingual communities, social interactions take place in both single- and mixed-language contexts. Some of the information shared in multilingual conversations, such as interlocutors’ personal information, is often required in consequent social encounters. In this study, we explored whether the autobiographical information provided in a single-language context is better remembered than in an equivalent mixed-language situation. More than 400 Basque-Spanish bilingual (pre) teenagers were presented with new persons who introduced themselves by either using only Spanish or only Basque, or by inter-sententially mixing both languages. Different memory measures were collected immediately after the initial exposure to the new pieces of information (immediate recall and recognition) and on the day after (delayed recall and recognition). In none of the time points was the information provided in a mixed-language fashion worse remembered than that provided in a strict one-language context. Interestingly, the variability across participants in their sociodemographic and linguistic variables had a negligible impact on the effects. These results are discussed considering their social and educational implications for bilingual communities.

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