Bilingualism Accentuates Children's Conversational Understanding

Bilingualism Accentuates Children's Conversational Understanding

BACKGROUND Although bilingualism is prevalent throughout the world, little is known about the extent to which it influences children's conversational understanding. Our investigation involved children aged 3-6 years exposed to one or more of four major languages: English, German, Italian, and Japanese. In two experiments, we examined the children's ability to identify responses to questions as ...

Bilingualism and conversational understanding in young children.

The purpose of the two experiments reported here was to investigate whether bilingualism confers an advantage on children's conversational understanding. A total of 163 children aged 3-6 years were given a Conversational Violations Test to determine their ability to identify responses to questions as violations of Gricean maxims of conversation (to be informative and avoid redundancy, speak the...

Mining and Understanding Online Conversational Media

1 1 Overview 3 1.1 Online Conversational Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Research Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.2.1 Information Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.2.2 User Interest Profiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.3 Contributions . . . . . . . . . . ....

Towards robust conversational speech recognition and understanding

and Understanding of Noisy Conversational Speech

As the amount of speech data available increases rapidly, so does the need for efficient search and understanding. Techniques such as Spoken Term Detection (STD), which focuses on finding instances of a particular spoken word or phrase in a corpus, try to address this problem by locating the query word with the desired meaning. However, STD may not provide the desired result, if the Automatic S...