patients with valvular heart disease and suffering atrial fibrillation of more than 12 months duration have a low probability of remaining in sinus rhythm after valve surgery alone. we performed intra-operative radiofrequency ablation or cryoablation as an alternative to surgical maze ііі procedure to create linear lesion lines for conversion of this arrhythmia to sinus rhythm. a total of 30 pa...

Ambiguity in natural language is ubiquitous (Piantadosi, Tily & Gibson, 2012), yet spoken communication is effective due to integration of information carried in the speech signal with information available in the surrounding multimodal landscape. However, current cognitive models of spoken word recognition and comprehension are underspecified with respect to when and how multimodal information...

This paper presents a set of tools designed to assist traditional Basque verse writers during the composition process. In this article we are going to focus on the parts that have been created using finite-state technology: this includes tools such as syllable counters, rhyme checkers and a rhyme search utility. 1 The BAD tool and the Basque singing tradition The BAD tool is an assistant tool f...

How much can we infer about the pronunciation of a language – past or present – by observing which words its speakers rhyme? This paper explores the connection between pronunciation and network structure in sets of rhymes. We consider the rhyme graphs corresponding to rhyming corpora, where nodes are words and edges are observed rhymes. We describe the graph G corresponding to a corpus of ∼1200...

Models of spoken word recognition in monolingual, native listeners account for the dynamics of lexical activation of intended words and their phonologically similar “competitors,” in terms of continuous, cascaded processing dynamics. Here we explore how the dynamics of spoken word recognition differ for second language listeners. Groups of native Korean speakers (KL1) and native English speaker...

Our production experiment in Scottish English revealed that the duration of a rhyme immediately followed by a Level II suffix such as –s (the 1 person singular/plural/possessive suffix) and –t (the past tense suffix) was significantly longer than that of a monomorphemic counterpart. Such a durational difference between suffixed forms and monomorphemic forms was absent when the Level II suffix w...

Despite the ubiquity of inner speech in our mental lives, methods for objectively assessing inner speech capacities remain underdeveloped. The most common means of assessing inner speech is to present participants with tasks requiring them to silently judge whether two words rhyme. We developed a version of this task to assess the inner speech of a population of patients with aphasia and corres...

An eye-tracking experiment examined contextual flexibility in speech processing in response to distortions in spoken input. Dutch participants heard Dutch sentences containing critical words and saw four-picture displays. The name of one picture either had the same onset phonemes as the critical word or had a different first phoneme and rhymed. Participants fixated on onset-overlap more than rh...