Word and Sentence Level Spatial Information In Reading

Word and Sentence Level Spatial Information In Reading.

Reading is considered an inefficient activity that requires independent detection of individual letters without integrating word or sentence information. We studied the use of word- and sentence-shape information using word discrimination and reading tasks with spatially distorted text in 18 naïve observers. Threshold durations were measured as a function of the wavelength and magnitude of spat...

Location Of The Topic Sentence, Level Of Language Proficiency, and Reading Comprehension

Relationship of word- and sentence-level working memory to reading and writing in second, fourth, and sixth grade.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the contribution of working memory at the word and sentence levels of language to reading and writing outcomes. METHOD Measures of working memory at the word and sentence levels, reading and writing, were administered to 2nd (N = 122), 4th (N = 222), and 6th (N = 105) graders. Structural equation modeling was used to evaluate whether the 2 pre...

Identifying the role of phonology in sentence-level reading.

Phonological properties of the words in a sentence have been shown to affect processing fluency and comprehension. However, the exact role of phonology in sentence comprehension remains unclear. If constituents are stored in working memory during routine processing and accessed through their phonological code, phonological information may exert a pervasive influence on post-lexical comprehensio...

Integrating sentence- and word-level error identification for disfluency correction

While speaking spontaneously, speakers often make errors such as self-correction or false starts which interfere with the successful application of natural language processing techniques like summarization and machine translation to this data. There is active work on reconstructing this errorful data into a clean and fluent transcript by identifying and removing these simple errors. Previous re...