This experiment investigated the positive-forgetting phenomenon with sentence material. Sets of sentences were presented to Ss with each sentence being cued "remember" or "forget" immediately following its presentation. To-be-remembered (TBR) sentences were found to be more accessible thanto-be-forgotten (TBF) sentences and uncued control sentences. Sentence connectedness was found to be an imp...

Corpus based studies of spontaneous speech showed that filled pauses tended to precede relatively long and complex constituents. We examined whether listeners made use of such a tendency in speech processing. We tested the hypothesis that when listeners heard filled pauses they tended to expect a relatively long and complex phrase to follow. In the experiment participants listened to sentences ...

A self-organizing model of language comprehension at syntactic and semantic levels is presented. It has a two-stream architecture aimed at facilitating language acquisition. A head stream forms phrases that denote entities or events. Such phrases are called extended maximal projections or EMPs. An argument stream attaches an EMP as an argument of another EMP. The learning algorithm within each ...

Having effective and efficient methods to get access to desired images is essential nowadays with the huge amount of digital images. This paper presents an analogy between content-based image retrieval and text retrieval. We make this analogy from pixels to letters, patches to words, sets of patches to phrases, and groups of sets of patches to sentences. To achieve a more accurate document matc...

Comprehension of plausible and implausible object- and subject-relative clause sentences with and without prepositional phrases was examined. Undergraduates read each sentence then evaluated a statement as consistent or inconsistent with the sentence. Higher acceptance of consistent than inconsistent statements indicated reliance on syntactic analysis. Higher acceptance of plausible than implau...

RÉSUMÉ. Dans le cadre de la conférence d’évaluation DUC, nous avons développé un système de résumé automatique de documents multiples qui se base sur l’extraction des phrases clés. La méthode proposée utilise un algorithme génétique qui permet de combiner les phrases des documents sources pour former les extraits, qui seront croisés et mutés pour générer de nouveaux extraits. L’examen des résul...

this paper examines the stylistics of the ‘arafa supplication in terms of their acoustic and phonetic levels. this supplication has a unique and consistent texture. the acoustic features of the words and sentences and the repetition of some sounds, words and phrases and acoustic syllables, as well as literary devices such as rhyme and paronomasia tend to increase the rhythm of speech. in fact, ...