While previous research on readability has typically focused on document-level measures, recent work in areas such as natural language generation has pointed out the need of sentence-level readability measures. Much of psycholinguistics has focused for many years on processing measures that provide difficulty estimates on a word-by-word basis. However, these psycholinguistic measures have not y...

Background: spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (D-CP) is frequently related to periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), which usually affects the descending motor fibers of the association cortex and association fibers of the visual, auditory and somesthesic functions. Aim: to verify the performance of children with D-CP regarding their psycholinguistic skills. Method: participants were eight individua...

Highly controllable environment Synchronised presentation of audible and visual stimuli Interactive studies are possible Automatic recording of relevant data, such as reaction-time, interactive responses or even speech A thoroughly designed experiment can directly produce the data needed for a statistical evaluation relieving the empiricist of the tedious task of annotating audioor video-record...