This study examines pragmatic language production deficits in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Participants (PD and non-PD) were interviewed and their responses coded for degree of informativeness. PD participants were more under-informative than non-PD participants. Response underinformativeness was associated with decreased executive control, mental status, and speech act comprehension m...

In a finitely repeated principal agent relationship with adverse selection I study (exogenous) interim information that is revealed during a long term relationship. Interim information mitigates adverse selection. Verifiability, measured by the cost of signal manipulation, and the signal’s informativeness determine the use and effectiveness of interim information: Less precise and more manipula...

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the encoding and decoding of informativeness of verbs in German. Pairs of target verbs and nouns were either semantically unrelated (i.e. new) or related to each other in different ways. In a production study using read speech, these differences in semantic relatedness were found to be expressed in the prosodic realisation of the target words, nucl...

Active learning aims to select samples be annotated that yield the largest performance improvement for algorithm. Many methods approach this problem by measuring informativeness of and do based on certainty network predictions samples. However, it is well-known neural networks are overly confident about their prediction therefore an untrustworthy source assess sample informativeness. In paper, ...

How do rating changes affect investor behavior and price informativeness? In a model with endogenous information acquisition and investors with limited attention, we show that the returns to information and the informativeness of the price system increase after a downgrade, but should not experience a significant change after an upgrade. Using a sample of U.S. publicly traded firms that experie...

Effective communication requires knowing the “right” amount of information to provide; what is necessary for a naïve learner to arrive at a target hypothesis may be superfluous and inefficient for a knowledgeable learner. The current study examines fourto seven-year-olds’ developing sensitivity to over-informative communication and their ability to decide how much information is appropriate dep...

The study of text categories is essential because it impossible to talk about the object without naming and explaining its categories. description their interaction aimed at obtaining generalized whole system, i.e. as a by combining knowledge elements. article deals with observation, analysis, research classification on example newspaper weather forecast report. Basic characteristic features in...