Substantial individual differences in speech perception emerge under adverse listening conditions, including when perceiving unfamiliar speech. In the present study, individual differences in word recognition for three varieties of unfamiliar speech—Spanish-accented English, Irish-accented English, and dysarthric speech—were investigated. We asked whether the ability to perceive these unfamilia...

A great deal of work has been done demonstrating the ability of machine learning algorithms to automatically extract linguistic knowledge from annotated corpora. Very little work has gone into quantifying the difference in ability at this task between a person and a machine. This paper is a first step in that direction.

What is the relation between language and thought? Specifically, how do linguistic and conceptual representations make contact during language learning? This paper addresses these questions by investigating the acquisition of evidentiality (the linguistic encoding of information source) and its relation to children's evidential reasoning. Previous studies have hypothesized that the acquisition ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether confidence in primary healthcare (PHC) differs among ethnic-linguistic groups and which PHC experiences are associated with confidence. DESIGN A cross-sectional study where patient surveys were administered using random digit dialling. Regression models identify whether ethnic-linguistic group remains significantly associated with confidence in PHC. SETTING Brit...

Temporally synchronous audio-visual stimuli serve to recruit attention and enhance learning, including language learning in infants. Although few studies have examined this effect on children with autism, it appears that the ability to detect temporal synchrony between auditory and visual stimuli may be impaired, particularly given social-linguistic stimuli delivered via oral movement and spoke...

Runtime verification (RV) facilitates detecting the failures of software during its execution. Due to the complexity of RV techniques, there is an increasing interest in achieving abstractness, modularity, and compose-ability in their implementations by means of dedicated linguistic mechanisms. This paper defines a design space to evaluate the existing domain-specific languages for implementing...

Individual differences in reading correlate with individual differences in perception. in memory, and in other simple processes. This study measured these relationships using information processing tasks such as visual search. visual matching, and span of apprehen\ion; and using linguistic processing tasks such as word-nonword judgment, picture-sentence verification. and semantic Categorization...