Na plynulosż produkcie diskurzu a výskyt dysfluencií v ňom môŞe vplývaż viacero faktorov. Faktory, ktorých vplyv sa zvaŞuje pri hodnotení jazykovej produkcie, sú vek, vzdelanie pohlavie, no zatiaĞ vieme relatívne målo o vplyve týchto faktorov na diskurzoch zdravej dospelej populåcie. Preto bolo cieĞom nåťho výskumu priniesż ucelenejťí pohĞad túto problematiku. Vzåjomn...

This paper investigates the effect of disfluencies on listeners’ on-line processing of speech. More specifically, it tests the hypothesis that filled pauses like um, which tend to occur before words that are low in accessibility, act as a signal to the listener that a relatively inaccessible word is about to be produced. Two experiments are reported, in which participants followed recorded inst...

In two experiments, we examine university students’ ability to comprehend authentic argumentative texts and factors that influence their application of this skill. Participants read several relatively lengthy arguments and identified the main claim and reasons. Experiment 1 shows that participants are not skilled at identifying key elements from an argumentative text (only 30% accuracy). The pe...

An effective approach to the study of prosody in spoken language seeks to identify prosodic patterns and their communicative values, and to subsequently find a correlation between these prosodic patterns and other layers of linguistic structure. The present research strives to define a single prosodic boundary pattern: the boundary tone of hesitation disfluencies in spontaneous Israeli Hebrew. ...

" Spoken language " is a field of natural language processing, which deals with transcribed speech utterances. The processing of spoken language is much more complex and complicated than processing standard, grammatically correct natural language , and requires special treatment of typical speech phenomena called " disfluencies " , like corrections , interjections and repetitions of words or ph...

In this paper we try to improve the humanmachine interaction of a voice-activated system by adding prosodic characteristics to the system. We focus on verbal hesitation, which is manifested by speech disfluencies. In humanhuman communication recent research shows that moderate disfluencies make speakers more credible. In addition, people tend to react more leniently to an erroneous answer, if t...

A corpus of spontaneous telephone transactions between call centre operators of a pizza company and its customers is examined for disfluencies (fillers and speech repairs) with the aim of improving automatic speech recognition. From this, a subset of the customer orders is selected as a test set. An architecture is presented which allows filled pauses and repairs to be detected and corrected. A...