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Flexible and adaptive processes in speech perception
(The Speech Processing Lexicon, 2017)
The perception of speech can be flexible, influenced by multiple sources of information, and plastic, tuned over time to cumulative experience. This chapter provides examples of cognitive neuroscience research, presented ...
Nucleation and crystallization in bio-based immiscible polyester blends
(Springer, 2019-08-21)
Bio-based thermoplastic polyesters are highly promising materials as they combine interesting thermal and physical properties and in many cases biodegradability. However, sometimes the best property balance can only be ...
The (under)representation of ethnic identity and sociolect in (re)dubbing: a case study
(UCOPress. Cordoba University Press, 2019)
[EN] This study presents the results of the analysis carried out on an audiovisual corpus consisting of the original version or source text (ST), the first dubbing (FD) and the redub (RD) of the western White Feather (Robert ...
A robot for welding inspection in offshore mooring chains
(Springer, 2018-08-31)
In this paper, the authors present the CIRUS robot. This automatic system uses a combination of pulse-echo and pitch and catch ultrasonic strategies for the inspection of the welded area of mooring chain links in an automatic ...
Sentence comprehension before and after 1970: Topics, debates and techniques
(Oxford University Press, 2013)
[EN] Language Down the Garden Path traces the lines of research that grew out of Bever's classic paper. Leading scientists review over 40 years of debates on the factors at play in language comprehension, production, and ...
Bilingual Dictionary Drafting. The Example of German-Basque, a Medium-density Language Pair
(EURALEX (Bolzano/Bozen, Italy), 2014)
[EN] This paper presents a set of Bilingual Dictionary Drafting (BDD) methods including manual extraction from existing lexical databases and corpus based NLP tools, as well as their evaluation on the example
of German-Basque ...
An adaptive sliding mode control law for the power maximization of the wind turbine system
(IEEE, 2011)
The actual wind turbines are provided with adjustable speed generators, like the double feed induction generator, that are capable to work in variable speed operations. One of the main advantage of adjustable speed generators ...
More than one language in the brain
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012)
[EN] What difference does it make to have one language in the brain or to have more
than one? This is an intriguing and currently much inquired question, which can
help us unravel more than one mystery concerning language ...
Interactions between native and non-native vowels in French-Danish contact: production training study
(Romance-Germanic Bilingual Phonology. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom., 2017)
Speakers who acquire a foreign language (L2) in adulthood (and even earlier), often experience major difficulties in producing non-native speech sounds, a phenomenon commonly known as having a foreign accent. These ...
Media Globalization and the Debate on Multiculturality
(InTech, 2011-08)
[ENG]This article addresses the way the media globalization is challenging the national communication spaces, and therefore some of the most important resources that states have used while attempting to build the nation. ...