Interactions with spoken language systems may present breakdowns that are due to errors in the acoustic decoding of user utterances. Some of these errors have important consequences in reducing the naturalness of human-machine dialogues. In this paper we identify some typologies of recognition errors that cannot be recovered during the syntactico-semantic analysis, but that may be effectively a...

Abstract In adult learners’ collaborative dialogue, oral+written tasks have been found to promote a greater incidence and resolution of language-related episodes demand higher levels accuracy than oral thanks the extra time learners reflect on their written outcome. No previous studies tested whether asking attend in both modalities would yield similar results. The present study with 23 dyads y...