Essays on Language and Linguistics

Bilingualism is hard to define as it relies upon the meaning of fluency. In its simplest form, bilingualism is defined as “knowing” two languages (Valdez & Figueroa, 1994). A more recent definition views the proficiency of learning multiple languages on a continuum (Harley, 2014). In…

Moving forward in the lifespan, it has been found that bilingual toddlers may develop theory of mind earlier than their monolingual peers (Goetz, 2013). This study gave monolingual and bilingual toddlers in two age groups false belief and level two perspective taking tasks in order…

Introduction Ensuring their child receives a quality education that is tailored to the child’s needs and abilities is a primary concern of all parents. Yet, when language learning is concerned, opinions are widely varied. This essay intends to argue the view that exposing children to…

Introduction The idea is to make computers understand human languages and develop a user friendly human computer interfaces (HCI). Making a computer appreciate speech, facial and human gestures are some steps towards it. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of interface between users and computers….

Introduction This research paper presents the details of converting audio signals to text using Google’s speech to text API. Then, using the semantics of Natural Language Processing we break the text into smaller understandable pieces which requires Machine Learning as a part. Data sets of…

Deafness is one of the disabilities that we wish no one would suffer. It is a real burden for anyone who has this lifetime condition. We can say that this kind of condition may not be life threatening literally but the fact that this disability…

Communication can manifest in many ways – verbal, physical, visual, etc. Since man has existed we have found ways to communicate with one another through these different ways of expressing ourselves. Humans typically communicate through speech; And in this age of technology, messages via internet….

A nation filled with magical spirituality, that has a vibrant and rich society, with customs as the dialect spoken by the locals, Hindi. Indians, remarkably aware of the way that things are done in the Western society and have incorporated several of these ways within…

Introduction Part of Speech is an important application of natural language processing. Natural Language Processing is a rapidly growing technology at present and with the help of imposing some queries and keywords it fetches information from collection of huge amount of data. Part of speech…

Introduction There are more than 4000 doctrines as well as religions in the world and more than 6000 tongues that exist. Out of these, there is a major doctrine or religion followed by the Indians, which is known as Hinduism. The language, that has many…