the discourse of the :union: of the intellect and the intelligible is one of the important philosophical issues and porphyrius and aristotle can be mentioned as among the early advocates of it, which has been common among the peripatetics. however, kandī and fārābi can be mentioned among the early muslims who brought up the issue of the :union: of the intellect and the intelligible, but ibn sīn...

This study tested the importance of F0 variation for tone language comprehension. The intelligibility of Mandarin sentences with natural F0 contours was compared to the intelligibility of monotone (flat-F0) sentences created via speech resynthesis. In a quiet background, flat-F0 speech was just as intelligible as natural speech (about 94% intelligible), highlighting the robustness of the langua...

A variety of techniques from statistics, signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, and neural networks have been proposed to understand data by discovering useful categories. However, research in data mining has not paid attention to the cognitive factors that make learned categories intelligible to human users. We show that one factor that influences the intelligibility of lear...