BACKGROUND/STUDY CONTEXT A common goal during speech comprehension is to remember what we have heard. Encoding speech into long-term memory frequently requires processes such as verbal working memory that may also be involved in processing degraded speech. Here the authors tested whether young and older adult listeners' memory for short stories was worse when the stories were acoustically degra...

Terminal Time is a machine that constructs ideologically-biased documentary histories in response to audience feedback. The audience answers multiple-choice questions via an applause meter. The answers to these questions influence which historical events are chosen from a knowledge base, how these events will be slanted to embody the bias implied in the audience's answers, and how the events wi...

Intergenerational congruence of mothers’ and preschoolers’ narratives about the mother–child relationship was examined in a sample of 198 Hispanic (59.1%), Black (19.2%), and White (21.7%) mothers and their preschool child. Mothers’ narratives were obtained with the Five Minute Speech Sample and were coded for negative and positive affective content and narrative coherence. Preschoolers’ narrat...

In most Interactive Storytelling systems, user interaction is based on natural language communication with virtual agents, either through isolated utterances or through dialogue. Natural language communication is also an essential element of interactive narratives in which the user is supposed to impersonate one of the story’s characters. Whilst techniques for narrative generation and agent beh...

experiment-based report of imam ali (peace upon him) to be knowing god lead to revoke the out goings and opening the shuttings is a new way in theology. encountering the commentators of nahj-al-balaghah with this narration is the current / present research’s matter. they define and comprise their common and different status in understanding imam ali’s (peace be upon him) speeches. they analize ...

Abstract Psychologists and philosophers agree that personal narratives are a central component of one’s identity. The concept narrative self has been proposed to capture this aspect selfhood. In recent times, it matter debate how the relates embodied experiential dimension self. debate, role attributed inner speech is constructing maintaining narratives. Indeed, evidence suggests episodes invol...

The aim of this study was to describe the trajectory and the outcomes of speech-language therapy in Prader-Willi syndrome through a longitudinal study of the case of an 8 year-old boy, along four years of speech-language therapy follow-up. The therapy sessions were filmed and documental analysis of information from the child's records regarding anamnesis, evaluation and speech-language therapy ...

This study compared 2 main approaches to readability assessment. Thequantitative approach applied idea density based on part of speech tagging andcompared 3 sets of text types (i.e., narrative, expository, and argumentative) withrespect to their ease of reading. The qualitative approach was done throughdeveloping questionnaires measuring intermediate EFL learners’ perceptions oncontent, motivat...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition among hospitalized patients increases length of stay (LOS) and carries extra hospitalization costs. OBJECTIVE To review the impact of malnutrition on hospital LOS and costs in Europe. METHODS PubMed and Google Scholar search. All articles from January 2004 until November 2014 were identified. Reference lists of relevant articles were also manually searched. RESULTS...

We investigate the understanding of landmarks using a model of embedding procedures that sees affordances established on three levels. On the first level there are landmark experience and direct communication process as distinct affordance structures. On the second level the initial landmark experience has become part of the speech act thus establishing direct wayfinding communication. On the t...