According to the Modulation Theory, speakers modulate their voice with linguistic gestures, and listeners demodulate the signal in order to separate the linguistic from the expressive and organic information. Listeners tune in to the carrier (the voice) on the basis of an analysis of a stretch of speech and they evaluate its modulation. This is reflected in many perceptual experiments that invo...

BACKGROUND To facilitate informed consent, consent forms should use language below the grade eight level. Research Ethics Boards (REBs) provide consent form templates to facilitate this goal. Templates with inappropriate language could promote consent forms that participants find difficult to understand. However, a linguistic analysis of templates is lacking. METHODS We reviewed the websites ...

Language assessment has a crucial role in the clinical diagnosis of several neurodegenerative diseases. The analysis of extended speech production is a precious source of information encompassing the phonetic, phonological, lexico-semantic, morpho-syntactic, and pragmatic levels of language organization. The knowledge about the distinctive linguistic variables identifying language deficits asso...

Interval type-2 fuzzy sets, each of which is characterized by the footprint of uncertainty, are a very useful means to depict the linguistic information in the process of decision making. In this article, we investigate the group decision making problems in which all the linguistic information provided by the decision makers is expressed as interval type-2 fuzzy decision matrices where each of ...

linguistic/cultural differences of learners’ native language with english as a foreign language, gender and english proficiency level are among those numerous variables which affect english learning and its quality in iranian context. the present study was an attempt to illuminate the effects of these variables on performing integrative approach of general english tests (cloze test and recall t...

In this paper, we propose a new aggregation operator under uncertain pure linguistic environment called the induced uncertain pure linguistic hybrid averaging aggregation (IUPLHAA) operator. Some of the main advantages and properties of the new operator are studied. Moreover, in the situations where the given arguments about all the attribute weights, the attribute values and the expert weights...

Dialectometric techniques analyze linguistic variation quantitatively, allowing one to aggregate over what are frequently rebarbative geographic patterns of individual linguistic variants, such as which word is used for a particular concept in a language area, or which sounds are used in particular words. This leads to general formulations of the relation between linguistic variation and explan...

We propose linguistic associations mining as a technique to create the models of the multivariate time series. We define various linguistic evaluative expressions on the range of the values of the time series and variables derived from them. We mine linguistic associations then and interpret them as IF-THEN rules in the framework of Perception based Logic Deduction (PbLD). The mined rules provi...

Speaker's sex has emerged as one of the most important social factors in the quantitative study of phonological variation. However, sex does not have a uniform effect on variables or even on variables that represent sound change in progress. This is because sex is not directly related to linguistic behavior but reflects complex social practice. The correlations of sex with linguistic variables ...