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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Conversational turn"”.
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The Effects and Feasibility of using Tiered Instruction to Increase Conversational Turn Taking for Preschoolers with and without Disabilities
… tiered instruction to increase the frequency of conversational turn taking (CTT) among preschoolers with and without disabilities in an inclusive setting. Three CTT interventions (Universal Design for Learning, Peer Mediated Instruction, and Milieu Teaching) were organized on a hierarchy of …
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Prenatal alcohol exposure and the early neurodevelopmental outcomes of children in a South African birth cohort study
… (Chapter 5 Manuscript 3); 4. a comparison of the conversational turn-taking between mothers and their alcohol exposed children compared to those between mothers and their unexposed children (Chapter 6 Manuscript 4). Methods: This thesis included four publications, three of which present data from …
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Communication error detection using facial expressions
Automatic detection of communication errors in conversational systems typically rely only on acoustic cues. However, perceptual studies have indicated that speakers do exhibit visual communication error cues passively during the system's conversational turn. In this thesis, we introduce novel …
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A conversation-based framework for musical improvisation
… model for structured collaboration based on conversational turn-taking. According to the model, collaboration participants share both a representation of the collaboration's structure and the algorithms governing navigation through that structure. ImprovisationBuilder, an object-oriented …
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The development of conversational and communication skills
… investigates the development of children's conversational and communication skills. This is done by investigating both communicative process and outcome in two communication media: face-to-face interaction and audio-only interaction. Communicative outcome is objectively measured by assessing …
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Parsing meta-communicational statements in dialogues: a computational model
… occur with an average frequency of 1.49 per conversational turn, and that a turn free of such statements is rare. A verbal expression focusing on the activity of talking we term a meta-statement. In this thesis, we present a model of meta-statements. We propose that metastatements are …
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Verbal Disagreement in Saudi Arabic and British English Casual Conversations: Cross-cultural and gender comparisons
… Structural patterns are examined at a conversational-turn level with a reference to the organizations of conversation, e.g. Turn-taking. Through a comprehensive investigation of the participants’ elicited conversations, a number of 542 disagreement exchanges (represented in the fixed …
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Adaptive role switching in socially interactive agents for children's language learning
… all of them necessarily provide children with conversational experiences, which have been found to significantly impact the children's language-related neural development [3]. Among a variety of educational media, embodied interactive agents (e.g., social robots) seem to be an effective yet …
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Language environments in toddler classrooms: the contribution of setting, teacher, and child variables.
… No significant relationships were found for conversational turns. Study limitations and implications for policy and practice are discussed.