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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Disfluent"”.
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Lexical and Sublexical Characteristics of Words Produced Disfluently by Adults Who Stutter
… 1998, little is known about the words produced disfluently by AWS. In this study, 803 disfluent words from 65 AWS were analyzed with the Irvine Phonotactic Online Dictionary - IPhOD (Vaden, Hickok, & Halpin 2009) to generate a population of words matched by phoneme structure with the disfluent …
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Disfluencies and Rate of Speech of Young Adult Normal Talkers in an Interview Situation
… that, on the average, young adults were disfluent on approximately 3% of words in conversational speech and 1% of words in reading. The majority of disfluencies were interjections and revisions. They spoke and read at approximately 159 and 198 words per minute, respectively. Data from …
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The Relationship Between Linguistic Mazes and Executive Function in African American Adults
People tend to become more disfluent or show a change in their disfluency patterns with age, producing less informative utterances across contexts (e.g., Samani et al., 2017; Andrade & Martins-Reis, 2010). The specific pattern and mechanism behind this phenomenon are still unsettled (for a review, …
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When do eyewitness behaviors reflect the presence or absence of the culprit in a lineup?
… eyewitness and less faith in the decision of a disfluent eyewitness.
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Children with Dyslexia: Spelling as a Constraint on Writing Development
… errors. Limited vocabulary choices and a more disfluent handwriting profile were characteristics of the writing by children with dyslexia. These children with dyslexia did not have motor difficulties and demonstrated that handwriting execution speed was in fact similar to their peers. Rather, …
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The Role of Brand Name Fluency: A Pharmaceutical Marketing Perspective
… groups of pharmaceutical brand names, fluent or disfluent and then exposed to the associated 10 pharmaceutical brand names. Participants were instructed to imagine they were reading the pharmaceutical brand name as part of an advertisement for the product and asked to assess the perceived risk, …
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Improving Cascaded Systems in Spoken Language Processing
… of spoken language. SGEC converts non-native disfluent speech into grammatically correct fluent text, and the main challenge is to operate under extremely limited end-to-end data. The SDD and SLT systems are respectively evaluated on the pub- licly available Switchboard and MuSTC datasets, and …