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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Comprehensibility"”.
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Improving Vision-Based Robotic Grasping for Enhanced Comprehensibility
… they neglect the gripper-object dynamics, lack comprehensibility, and fail to account for reasons behind failed grasps. To address these problems, this thesis proposes a three-step grasping process, composed of the steps: lowering, closing, and lifting. The lowering step identifies possible …
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Effects of Selected Aspects of Brevity on Comprehensibility and Persuasiveness
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A text development process to improve the comprehensibility of educational text
… process for improving the understanding or comprehensibility of these educational publications. A model of a publication development process based on learning principles was created. This study investigated the effectiveness of the model with Extension subject-matter specialists developing …
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Disentangling fluency, comprehensibility and coherence: Toward a better understanding of oral proficiency profiles
… three research questions: 1) do fluency, comprehensibility and coherence ratings significantly change after the disfluency manipulation; 2) do correlations between fluency, comprehensibility, coherence and coherence subcomponents change after the disfluency editing; and 3) how do rater …
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The Comprehensibility of Plain Language and Non Plain Language Minnesota Civil Jury Instructions
<p>A substantial volume of research (e.g., Charrow & Charrow, 1979; Elwork, Sales & Alfini, 1977, 1982) suggests that jurors do not understand the often-convoluted language of standard jury instructions. Some states have recently simplified their instructions, but others continue to debate whether …
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The effects of speaking rate and pausing on comprehensibility of non-native English
… variables (i.e., speaking rate and pausing) on comprehensibility ratings of second language (L2) speech. Twenty advanced Chinese speakers of English were audio-recorded as they read 3 short airline flight announcement passages. For each passage, the speakers adjusted their speech based on the …
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The Impact of pronunciation instruction on phonological global constructs: accentedness, comprehensibility, and intelligibility in L2 Spanish
… phonological global constructs––accentedness, comprehensibility, and intelligibility––in second language (L2) Spanish speech. These measures are based on listener judgments versus acoustic analysis as a result of the unlikelihood of ultimate attainment (Flege et al., 1995). An instructional …
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Differences in the comprehensibility of testimony : a comparative study of magistrate's credibility judgements, witnesses' ethnicity and court role
… its credibility. It has been shown that the comprehensibility of narrative discourse (testimony) is a reliable indicator of its well-formedness (Thorndyke, 1977). This study aims to explore the relationships between comprehensibility (well-formedness) as a dependent variable, and magistrates' …
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The Intelligibility and Comprehensibility of Learner Speech in Russian: A Study in the Salience of Pronunciation, Lexicon, Grammar and Syntax
… experienced Russian host families to facilitate comprehensibility of L-2Russian speech.</p> <p>The respondent group consisted of 51 native-Russian speakers plus a 20-member ethnic Russian control group, whose speech samples were also rated by the informant group. The 51 respondents comprised four …
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Effects of Prosody-Based Instruction and Self-Assessment in L2 Speech Development
… the influence of raters’ L1 backgrounds on their comprehensibility ratings. Sixty-one Japanese university students from four intact English presentation classes participated in the study. The comparison group (n = 16) practiced making one-minute speeches in class (45 minutes x 8 times) without …
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Uma análise cartográfica das pesquisas em inteligibilidade e compreensibilidade nas áreas de letras e linguística no Brasil
… perception do studies on “intelligibility” and “comprehensibility” begin to be considered. According to Munro and Derwing (2015), both constructs must be understood in terms of listeners’ responses to L2 speech. Still, according to them, “intelligibility” is the “extent to which listeners’ …
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Understanding Doubly Center-Embedded Sentences Through Contrastive Focus
… examined the relationship between prosody and comprehensibility in doubly center-embedded relative clause constructions in English. Lexically identical sentences with contrastive emphasis on NP1, NP2, or VP1, and a baseline version for comparison, were read aloud for recording and judged for …
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Development and Evaluation of Food Safety Signs
… food safety signs, to determine their comprehensibility and most effective delivery mechanism for presentation to food handlers. The food safety concepts developed into images were: cross-contamination, proper use of thermometer to check temperatures of foods, proper cooling of foods, …
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The Effectiveness of Implicit and Explicit Instruction on German L2 Learners’ Pronunciation
… to measure learners’ improvement in accent and comprehensibility. No significant difference in progress was found across the three groups. The findings suggest that learner variables might be better predictors of improvement than the type of instruction. Moreover, not all pronunciation features …
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Intergenerational Differences of the Perception of British and American Accents in the Czech Republic
… English. The perception test involved rating the comprehensibility of recordings on a Likert scale and was conducted alongside questionnaires with two respondent groups: secondary school students and elder English learners. Results revealed statistically significant intergenerational differences …
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Investigating the effects of controlled language on the reading and comprehension of machine translated texts: a mixed-methods approach
… in terms of formal linguistic elements; while comprehensibility is defined as how easily a text’s content can be understood by the reader. A biphasic mixed-methods triangulation approach is taken, in which a number of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods are combined. These include: …
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Arab EFL learners' translation: A linguistic appraisal
… principally designed to gauge irritability and comprehensibility as communicative effects on native American speakers of English. The data corpus comprised of 100 samples of semantic and syntactic deviant sentences excerpted from texts translated by EFL Arab learners. These sentences were rated …
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The Oxford Shoulder Score: Cross-cultural adaption and translation validation into Afrikaans
… and the Subjective Shoulder Value (SSV) scores. Comprehensibility and acceptance, as well as any floor or ceiling effects, were calculated. Reliability was assessed through reproducibility. Internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha. Validity was determined using a Pearson …
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The use of explicit health benefits packages increases support for universal health care for people with high objective numeracy
… may improve support for UHC by heightening comprehensibility and increasing perceived equality through outlining the cost and scope of care. To test these hypotheses, we compared support for UHC after a HBP intervention, uninformative control, or ‘standard' UHC messaging from the World …
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