Autism,Intensive Interaction and the development of non-verbal communication in a teenager diagnosed with PDD-NOS: a case study

In this paper, the authors report on the importance of using Intensive Interaction for the development of non-verbal communication for people with autism. The complexity of learning non-verbal communication means that it cannot be taught in any sense in a traditional, didactic manner. While a person may have the cognitive abilities to follow instructions and be taught the need to behave a certain way in social situations, which will not allow them to properly assimilate and understand social expectations and how to operate in social contexts. This paper suggests that the use of Intensive Interaction creates frequent opportunities for a person to take part in face-to-face interactions and consequently allow for the gradual development of non-verbal communication.     

A text to speech interface for Universal Digital Library

INTRODUCTION The objective of Universal Digital Library (UDL) is to capture all books in digital format (Universal Digital Library, 2005; Digital Library of India, 2005). Most of the digital information present in the digital world is accessible to a few who can read or under- stand a particular language. Language technologies can provide solutions in the form of natural interfaces so that digital content can reach the masses and fa- cilitate the exchange of information across differe…     

基于TD-PSOLA算法的汉语普通话韵律合成

结合汉语普通话的韵律特征，采用TD－PSOLA算法实现了汉语普通话的韵律合成，并对合成语音和原始语音的韵律参数作了比较分析。实验结果表明，这种方法能够有效地控制语音韵律参数，实现较高质量的语音韵律合成。     

先秦两汉诗学审美接受的言美话语

先秦两汉诗学相当成熟的重要标志之一,就是阐释接受活动的理论话语建构,它一方面指向功用接受与阐释思想,一方面指向诗歌文本意义的审美价值的接受与阐释思想。本文论述的是后一种接受言美话语。     

User-aware multilingual abusive content detection in social media

Despite growing efforts to halt distasteful content on social media, multilingualism has added a new dimension to this problem. The scarcity of resources makes the challenge even greater when it comes to low-resource languages. This work focuses on providing a novel method for abusive content detection in multiple low-resource Indic languages. Our observation indicates that a post’s tendency to attract abusive comments, as well as features such as user history and social context, significantly aid in the detection of abusive content. The proposed method first learns social and text context features in two separate modules. The integrated representation from these modules is learned and used for the final prediction. To evaluate the performance of our method against different classical and state-of-the-art methods, we have performed extensive experiments on SCIDN and MACI datasets consisting of 1.5M and 665K multilingual comments, respectively. Our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art baseline methods with an average increase of 4.08% and 9.52% in the F1-score on SCIDN and MACI datasets, respectively.     

An Analysis of the Language Features of Barack Obama’s Inaugural Speeches

This thesis tries to analyze the language features of Barack Obama's two inaugural speeches in 2008 and 2012 from the linguistic aspects,including sentence types as well as figures of speech which included imperative sentences,parallelism,rhetorical question,alliteration,hyperbole,simile,metaphor and so on.     

现代招呼语的变异特征及语用制约

招呼语是言语交际活动的重要组成部分,随着人们文化水平的不断提高,招呼语呈现出时尚化、现代化的特点,与中国传统的招呼语相比,现代招呼语在话题选择和句式选择方面具有开放性、多样性、变异性特点。现代社会,人们的交际活动日益丰富多彩,使用恰当、得体的招呼语显得特别重要。交际活动中,招呼语要受话语构建、话语理解、话语角色、语言环境、民族文化心理等因素的制约和影响。     

英语语感教学法管窥

语感在英语教学中具有至关重要的地位和作用,是统摄英语听说读写四种能力运作机制的关键。教师要充分发挥自身的主导作用和学生的主体作用,在英语教学中有计划、有步骤的进行语感培养,以不断提高学生的英语综合运用能力。     

简论跨文化交际的失误

跨越不同文化背景的交际常会发生故障 ,使交际双方产生误解其原因不仅限于发音、语法和词汇等语言各方面 ,还有其它如文化背景的原因 ,影响了有效交际 ,本文就此进行了初步探讨     

跨文化交流与接辞的形成——中日语言中“～的”的历时态研究

＂～的＂是在日语中使用频率高、用法多样、意义丰富的汉语系接辞之一。迄今为止,对于＂～的＂的共时研究比较多,尤其是从语法论的角度来进行的对比研究较多,而历时态研究较少。从语言交际的角度更深层次地、历时态地考察日语＂～的＂,同时,通过本研究来考察＂～的＂的发生、发展直至稳定的过程,从语法的角度进行归纳梳理,最终目的是希望为今后的日语语言学历时态的研究提供借鉴。