In this paper we present a specific application of SPARSAR, a system for poetry analysis and TextToSpeech “expressive reading”. We will focus on the graphical output organized at three macro levels, a Phonetic Relational View where phonetic and phonological features are highlighted; a Poetic Relational View that accounts for a poem rhyming and metrical structure; and a Semantic Relational View ...

Previous research has demonstrated that recall performance is facilitated by the order of presentation of salient stimuli, referred to as the category-order effect (Brooks & Watkins, 1990; Greene & Lasek, 1994). Specifically, recall is higher on the full list when numbers precede words. To extend and clarify this research, Experiment 1 modified Brooks and Watkins’ paradigm by presenting items a...

Responses to target words typically are faster and more accurate after associatively related primes (e.g., "orange-juice") than after unrelated primes (e.g., "glue-juice"). This priming effect has been used as an index of semantic activation, and its elimination often is cited as evidence against semantic access. When participants are asked to perform a letter search on the prime, associative p...

The goal of the present study was to get an overview of the emergent literacy activities, instructional adaptations and school absence of children with cerebral palsy (CP) compared to normally developing peers. The results showed that there were differences between the groups regarding the amount of emergent literacy instruction. While time dedicated to storybook reading and independent picture...

Deaf children rely mainly on lipreading to understand spoken language. The phonological representations they develop from the lipread signal are underspecified, leading to poor performances in all mental activities relying on such representations. To overcome these difficulties, systems have been designed that deliver entirely visually specified information about the phonological contrasts of s...

Feedback from a synthesizer when typing a text has been found useful for children with reading and writing problems. Increased motivation and improvement in spelling skills were observed. A recent project has shown further potentials of this new approach. Children can experiment wi th speech sounds and practice identifying phonemes, discriminating between short and long vowels, rhyming, discove...

Most speech synthesizers have tended to depend on letter-to-sound rules for most words, and resort to a small ‘‘exceptions dictionary’’ of about 5000 words to cover the more serious gaps in the letterto-sound rules. The Bell Laboratories Text-toSpeech system, TTS, takes a radical dictionarybased approach; dictionary methods (with morphological and analogical extensions) are used for the vast ma...

The aim of the following study is to analyze the mechanical efficiency on heart rate frequency and oxygen consumption during exercise bicycle test. The following study included seven respondents (men) aged 19-28 years, all students in the National Sports Academy “Vassil Levski” (Sofia, Bulgaria) – specialists in cycling. During two consecutive days, they were administered to sub maximal bicycle...

Poetry composition is a very complex task that requires a poet to satisfy multiple constraints concurrently. We believe that the task can be augmented by combining the creative abilities of humans with computational algorithms that efficiently constrain and permute available choices. We present a hybrid method for generating poetry from prose that combines crowdsourcing with natural language pr...

In two experiments, we examined the use of phonological information in naming in English. In both experiments, a priming technique was used. Primes and targets were both graphemically and phonemically similar, only phonemically similar, or unrelated. The results of Experiment 1 did not reveal a significant priming effect. The same design and materials were used in Experiment 2, but this time, t...