BACKGROUND Beyond providing cues about an agent's intention, communicative actions convey information about the presence of a second agent towards whom the action is directed (second-agent information). In two psychophysical studies we investigated whether the perceptual system makes use of this information to infer the presence of a second agent when dealing with impoverished and/or noisy sens...

The purpose of this study is to examine the multidimensional structure servicescape (substantive and communicative) in restaurants understand effect brand familiarity on customer revisit intention. data were collected from branches a restaurant Istanbul. Quantitative research methods used study. Data 672 visitors using convenience sampling technique. analyzed by Bootstrap technique SPSS Process...

This paper introduces the theory of communicative competence by Hymes, the interpretation of communicative competence by Canale & Swain, the elements of efficient communication by Widdowson respectively, and the limitation of the previous application in China with the teaching environment of Classroom plus blackboard, analyzes the necessity and feasibility of creating authentic communicative en...

In this paper I describe ongoing research that seeks to provide a common framework for the generation and interpretation of spontaneous gesture in the context of speech. I present a testbed for this framework in the form of a program that generates speech, gesture, and facial expression from underlying rules specifying (a) what speech and gesture are generated on the basis of a given communicat...

The present study investigates the nature of communicative language ability as manifested in performance on the TOEFL iBT test, as well as the relationship between this ability with test-takers’ study-abroad and learning experiences. The research interest in the nature of language ability is shared by the language testing community, whereas understanding the factors that affect language acquisi...

According to a well-known statement by Donald Knuth, “Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.” If we use Knuth’s criterion, we must probably conclude that contemporary investigations of the ‘context’ of a social activity – as offered in fields such as linguistic pragmatics and social psychology – are still art rather than science (Reich ...

A critiquing system evaluating a physician's management plan may produce a set of individual comments that, taken together, appear repetitious or incoherent. This paper presents TraumaGEN, a system for integrating sets of possibly inter-related communicative goals into one or more coherent messages. TraumaGEN takes account of the purpose of the messages, the situation in which the messages will...

PURPOSE To date, the literature on perception of affective, pragmatic, and grammatical prosody abilities in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has been sparse and contradictory. It is interesting to note that the primary perception of syllable stress within the word structure, which is crucial for all prosody functions, remains relatively unexplored in ASD. Thus, in the current study, we explored ...

PURPOSE To investigate the social-cognitive performance of children with diagnostics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), mental disability (MD) and hearing impairment (HI) in two different communicative situations. METHODS Participated in this study 30 children ages between 3 and 12 years starting speech language therapy processes, divided in three groups: Group 1 - ten children with diagnoses...