The language of scene descriptions 2 must allow a hearer to build structures of schemas similar (to some level of detail) to those the speaker has built via perceptual processes. The understanding process in general requires a hearer to create and run "event ~ " to check the consistency and plausibility of a "picture" constructed from a speaker's description. A speaker must also run similar eve...

PURPOSE In the present study, the authors examined lexical naming in children with cochlear implants (CIs). The goal was to determine whether children with CIs have deficits in lexical access and organization as revealed through reaction time in picture-naming and verbal fluency (VF) experiments. METHOD Children with CIs (n = 20, ages 7-10) were compared with 20 children with normal hearing (...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify relationships among the word-finding behaviors ratio using discourse production task, subjective memory, and objective memory in healthy elderly adults.Methods: Ninety-five adults participated study. Participants were used picture description tasks. To evaluate deficit elderly, Subjective Memory Complaints Questionnaire (SMCQ) was used, deficit,...

Abstract This study aimed to investigate how having a student in leader role impacts group work dynamics (GWD) face‐to‐face (FTF) and online communication. A total of 144 pre‐intermediate English learners worked groups three on picture‐description task under one the four conditions: with or without FTF settings. All exchanges were recorded, transcribed, analyzed using GWD measuring instrument e...

A complex picture was shown to 12 subjects, and each subject was asked to describe it from memory. Their spoken descriptions were recorded, transcribed and segmented into intonation units (Chafe 1994). The transcripts were then qualitatively analyzed with respect to how the picture had been conceptualized. As a result, two different styles of description could be identified. Perceiving space wa...