On identifying basic discourse units in speech: theoretical and empirical issues

Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Demand Analysis

Polarization and Conflict: Theoretical and Empirical Issues

Authors ́ note: This paper is part of the Polarization and Conflict Project CIT-2-CT-2004506084 funded by the European Commission-DG Research Sixth Framework Programme. Most of the articles that are included here have been presented at a meeting of the PAC research group at the University of Konstanz in June 2005. We would like to thank Nils Petter Gleditsch, Frank Wayman and the contributors to...

Sleep debt : Theoretical and empirical issues *

The term ‘sleep debt’ is widely used to describe the effects of sleep loss. The construct of sleep debt, however, is poorly defined in the scientific literature. Cumulative build-up of sleep pressure appears to be a key feature of sleep debt. The concepts of ‘core sleep’ and ‘basal sleep need’ have been proposed to provide a theoretical framework, albeit without strong empirical basis. It has b...

On Bayesian Measures of Evidential Support: Theoretical and Empirical Issues*

Epistemologists and philosophers of science have often attempted to express formally the impact of a piece of evidence on the credibility of a hypothesis. In this paper we will focus on the Bayesian approach to evidential support. We will propose a new formal treatment of the notion of degree of confirmation and we will argue that it overcomes some limitations of the currently available approac...

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...