Comprehension of Synthetic Speech Produced by Rule: Word Monitoring and Sentence-by-Sentence Listening Times

Monitoring Sentence Comprehension

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...

Modelling Reading Times in Bilingual Sentence Comprehension

Relatively little is known about the interaction between a bilingual’s two languages beyond the word level. This paper investigates the issue by comparing word reading times (RTs) in both L1 and L2 to quantitative predictions by statistical language models. Recurrent neural networks are trained on either a Dutch corpus, an English corpus, or the two corpora combined (i.e., the bilingual network...

Embodied sentence comprehension 1 EMBODIED SENTENCE COMPREHENSION

ions are being discussed in other chapters in this book (Barsalou & WiemerHastings, this volume; Gibbs, this volume; Prinz, this volume). 6.0 Conclusion and outlook We started this chapter by comparing two perspectives on cognition in general and on language comprehension in particular. According to the traditional perspective, language comprehension involves the activation and integration of d...

Linking Eye Movements to Sentence Comprehension in Reading and Listening

Eye tracking paradigms in both written and spoken modalities are the state of the art for online behavioral investigations of language comprehension. But it is almost a misnomer to refer to the two types of paradigms by the same ―eye-tracking‖ label, because they are quite different. Reading paradigms gauge local processing difficulty by measuring the participant’s gaze on the very material tha...