Comprehension of rate-controlled speech in aphasic adults

the effects of speech rate,prosodic features, and blurred speech on iranian efl learners listening comprehension

کلید واژه ها به زبان انگلیسی: effect of speech rate on listening comprehension, blurred speech,segmental and suprasegmental features,authentic speech,intelligibility, discrimination, omission, assimilation چکیده: سرعت مطالب شنیداری در کلام پیوسته بطور کلی همواره کابوسی بوده برای یادگیرنده های زبان دوم و بالاخص برای شنوندگان ایرانی. علی رغم عقل سلیم که کلام با سرعت کندتری فعالیتهای درک مطلب شن...

Idiom comprehension in aphasic populations

The aim of the present paper is to provide an insight into the issue of idiom comprehension in patients who are in the process of recovery from the syndrome of aphasia. Research in figurative language comprehension has seen a robust development in the recent decades. However, it has not been until quite recently that psycholinguists began to delve into the aspect of metaphorical language compre...

Auditory Comprehension Problems in Adult Aphasic Individuals

Whether an aphasic patient understands what is said appears to be influenced by many factors in addition to the message itself, among them: how the material is presented, what the situational context is, the nature of the response required, the individual's cognitive functioning, his/her motivation, and the location and extent of the cerebral lesion_ Of course, the individual engaged in the com...

Effect of Contextual Speech Rate on Speech Comprehension

Comprehension of Co-Speech Gestures in Aphasic Patients: An Eye Movement Study.

BACKGROUND Co-speech gestures are omnipresent and a crucial element of human interaction by facilitating language comprehension. However, it is unclear whether gestures also support language comprehension in aphasic patients. Using visual exploration behavior analysis, the present study aimed to investigate the influence of congruence between speech and co-speech gestures on comprehension in te...