Accurately sensing a user’s interest in spoken dialog plays a significant role in many applications, such as tutoring systems and customer service systems. In addition to the widely used acoustic evidence, we introduce different lexical features for interest level prediction and evaluate the impact of automatic speech recognition (ASR) on the effectiveness of lexical information. In order to ca...

This study assesses the extent of phonetic continuity between babble and words in four Italian children followed longitudinally from 0.9 or 0.10 to 2.0--two with relatively rapid and two with slower lexical growth. Prelinguistic phonetic characteristics, including both (a) consistent use of specific consonants and (b) age of onset and extent of consonant variegation in babble, are found to pred...

In three experiments, we investigated Hebb repetition learning (HRL) differences between children and adults, as a function of the type of item (lexical vs. sub-lexical) and the level of item-overlap between sequences. In a first experiment, it was shown that when non-repeating and repeating (Hebb) sequences of words were all permutations of the same words, HRL was slower than when the sequence...

s. 139 Grammatical expression of Quality, Lexical expression of Quality, Quantity, and Location Quantity, and Location in the clause in the clause

A cross-modal naming experiment was conducted to examine the effects of context and other lexical information in the processing of Chinese homophones during spoken language comprehension. In this experiment, listeners named aloud a visual probe as fast as they could, at a pre-designated point upon hearing the sentence, which ended with a spoken Chinese homophone. Results further support that pr...

We model word substitution errors made by normal and aphasic speakers with an interactive activation model of lexicalization. This comprises a three-layer architecture of semantic, lexical, and phonological units. We test four hypotheses about the origin of aphasic word substitutions: that they result from pathological decay, loss of within-level inhibitory connections, increased initial random...

Approaches to spoken word recognition differ in the importance they assign to word onsets during lexical access. This research contrasted the hypothesis that lexical access is strongly directional with the hypothesis that word onsets are less important than the overall goodness of fit between input and lexical form. A cross-modal priming technique was used to investigate the extent to which a r...

this study was intended first to categorize the l2 learners in terms of their learning style preferences and second to investigate if their learning preferences are related to lexical inferencing. moreover, strategies used for lexical inferencing and text related issues of text density and parts of speech were studied to determine their moderating effects and the best predictors of lexical infe...