UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to examine listener perceptions of an adult male person who stutters (PWS) who did or did not disclose his stuttering. Ninety adults who do not stutter individually viewed one of three videotaped monologues produced by a male speaker with severe stuttering. In one monologue, 30 listeners heard the speaker disclose stuttering at the beginning and in another m...

We report on a study with 65 middle-school students who learned about the concept of diffusion through observation. We manipulated two factors: the number of observers, solo vs. dyad, and the type of video students observed, tutorial dialogue vs. monologue. Our findings show that dyad observers learn significantly better than solo observers, and that for certain types of questions, observing di...

Face-to-face dialogue is the basic site of language use. Our group’s program of research focuses on unique features of face-to-face dialogue, especially the ways in which participants collaborate moment-by-moment (e.g. Bavelas et al., 1995; Bavelas and Chovil, 1997; Bavelas et al., 2000, 2002). Current experiments are showing that the availability of collaborative processes in dialogue signific...

Current models draw a broad distinction between communication as dialogue and communication as monologue. The two kinds of models have different implications for who influences whom in a group discussion. If the discussion is like interactive dialogue, group members should be influenced most by those with whom they interact in the discussion; if it is like serial monologue, they should be influ...

This paper describes ongoing research on a Japanese-to-English speech-to-speech translation system for “controlled monologue", such as TV news and commentary programs in which the speaking styles are controlled as a monologue. We have adopted the data-driven approach since the TV programs in question cover a wide range of topics, and because it seems much too labor intensive to handcraft transl...

cet article essaie d’aborder « le langage et ses mécanismes » dans l’une des fameuses comédies de beaumarchais, le mariage de figaro qui est considéré révolutionnaire, avant tout par l’un des éléments de la parole, le célèbre monologue de figaro qui joue un rôle primordial dans le déroulement de l’aspect tragique de la pièce où le comique verbal se fait généralement à travers les jeux de mots, ...

OBJECTIVES In this study, we compared the performance of both fluent speakers and people who stutter in three different speaking situations: monologue speech, oral reading and choral reading. This study follows the assumption that the neuromotor control of speech can be influenced by external auditory stimuli in both speakers who stutter and speakers who do not stutter. METHOD Seventeen adult...