要旨: 日本音響学会の新聞記事読み上げ音声コーパスの中の株式会社エイ・ティ・アール自動翻訳電話研究所によって作成された ATR 音素バランス文に基づく音声コーパスから 5・6・7 文節の文を抽出し, 単独話者による読み上げ音声を使用して, 認知機能に異常の無い60歳以上の整形外科入院患者34名を対象として, 一日に10文, 10日間の聞き取り課題を施行した。書き取りデータをテキストデータ化した後, 文節正解率・音節正解率・音素正解率・母音正解率・子音正解率を自動採点した。文節数の判定及び自動採点には, Python, CaboCha, MeCab, KyTea, KAKASI に基づいたプログラムを使用した。100文合計の文節正解率・音節正解率・音素正解率・母音正解率・子音正解率はそれぞれ0.66±0.22, 0.78±0.17, 0.81±0.14, 0.81±0.14であった。本...

This paper describes a framework for the representation and interpretation of indirect speech acts, relating them to the politeness phenomenon, with particular attention to the case of requests. The speech acts are represented as actions of a plan library and are activated on the basis of the presence of syntactic and semantic information in the linguistic form of the input utterance. The speec...

Agrammatism is characterized by morphosyntactic deficits in production of sentences. Studies dealing with the treatment of these deficits are scarce and their results controversial. The present study describes the rehabilitation of a case diagnosed as chronic Broca's aphasia, with agrammatism, using a method directed to sentence structural deficits. The method aims to expand the grammatical rep...

A noun phrase can indirectly refer to an entity that has already been mentioned. For example, \I went into an old house last night. The roof was leaking badly and ..." indicates that \the roof" is associated with \an old house", which was mentioned in the previous sentence. This kind of reference (indirect anaphora) has not been studied well in natural language processing, but is important for ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Deficits of the aging auditory system negatively affect older listeners in terms of speech communication, resulting in limitations to their social lives. To improve their perceptual skills, the goal of this study was to investigate the effects of time alteration, selective word stress, and varying sentence lengths on the speech perception of older listeners. SUBJECTS...

Listeners must cope with a great deal of variability in the speech signal, and thus theories of speech perception must also account for variability, which comes from a number of sources, including variation between accents. It is well known that there is a processing cost when listening to speech in an accent other than one's own, but recent work has suggested that this cost is reduced when lis...

A model of syntactic development proposes that children’s very first word-combinations are already generated via productive rules that express in syntactic form the relation between a predicate word and its semantic argument. An alternative hypothesis is that they learn frozen chunks. In Study 1 we analyzed a large sample of young children’s early two-word sentences comprising of verbs with dir...

With as few as 10-20 sentences of exposure, listeners are able to adapt to speech that is highly distorted compared to that which is encountered in everyday conversation. The current study examines the extent to which adaptation to time-compressed speech can be impeded by disrupting the continuity of the exposure sentences, and whether this differs between young and older adult listeners when t...

the smallest structure of a language which makes words, sentences and verses and is the basic element of the quranic miracle is a phoneme. the phonemes are studied in two aspects: 1. each phoneme itself that is concentrated on the qualities and the vent which its sounds out; 2. the combination of the phonemes which is concentrated on the segments, spaces and … the interpreters of the quran have...