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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"Pauses"”.
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Detection by adults of differences in the duration of pauses in infant cries
… cries. These studies have found the duration of pauses within and between cries to be perceptually salient features, however, the point at which adults were able to detect changes in the duration of the pauses was not addressed. Seventy-five introductory psychology students participated in three …
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Pauses actives pendant le travail à l'ordinateur : impact de contractions dynamiques sur la variabilité d'activation musculaire du trapèze
… semble être prometteuse est l’introduction de pauses actives dans la séance de travail. Ces pauses auraient pour effet d’augmenter la variabilité de l’activation des fibres Cendrillon afin d’éviter leur surutilisation. À ce jour, les recherches ayant porté sur ce sujet suivaient une …
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The perception of clauses in 6- and 8-month-old German-learning infants : influence of pause duration and the natural pause hierarchy
… studies on the occurrence and distribution of pauses have revealed that there is a strong correlation between the duration of a pause and the type of boundary it marks (e.g., Butcher, 1981, for German). Pauses between words are either non-existent or short, pauses between phrases are a bit …
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A Study of Temporal Variables in English and Korean: Cross-Linguistic, Development, and Native/nonnative Analyses
… ratio, mean length of runs, and mean length of pauses), secondary temporal variables (repeats, false starts, parenthetical remarks, drawls, unfilled pauses, and filled pauses), and temporal cycles. Comparisons were made between Korean and English, adults and children, and native adult English …
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Measuring fluency: Temporal variables and pausing patterns in L2 English speech
… where ‘run’ is the vocal chunk between silent pauses. The smoothness of oral delivery can be measured through examination of pausing patterns by classifying the placement of pauses. Pauses may be placed in expected positions such as clause/phrase boundaries or in unexpected positions. Pause …
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Fluency and the Role of Training in Second Language German
… language that flows without interruptions or pauses, is often neglected in favor of other language components such as reading, writing, listening and speaking grammatically correctly in a language classroom. Although fluency falls under speaking skills, it is often not taught in L2 classrooms. …
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Formulaic language in speech fluency development in English as a second language
… and the length of fluent runs between pauses. It has been suggested by several researchers that the key to fluency in spontaneous speech is mastery of a repertoire of formulaic language sequences, multiword strings processed mentally as single words (Schmidt, 1991; Towell, Hawkins, and …
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The use of wait-time as a conversational management strategy in second-language conversations
… strategies commonly employed is the use of pauses to buy time keeping conversational channels open, organize thoughts, or search for a suitable response. This study described and compared these pauses, called wait-time, as they were used with other conversational management strategies by …
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Electromyographic control of prosthetic voice after total laryngectomy
… of fully voiced words and successfully produced pauses. During use of the EMG-EL with biofeedback participants increased the sEMG during words and decreased the sEMG during pauses. Electrodes on the superior ventral neck, submental surface, and below the comer of the mouth showed consistently …
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Neurophysiological Aspects of Time Perception
… were investigated. This was done for tones, tone pauses, pictures and picture pauses to investigate the dependence upon sensory input and modality. The attention-specific differences found include primary sensory responses and a parietal activation in particular. The tone and tone pause tasks were …
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Synaptic Control of Dopamine as a Driver of Reward Learning
… outcomes correlating with bursts and pauses, respectively. Burst and pause firing dynamics are believed to be responsible for driving associative learning, yet interrogating this causality, and understanding how these firing patterns are synaptically created within endogenous neural …
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Stochastic Modelling of Gene Expression: From Single Molecules to Populations
… is the direct observation of transient pauses in the process of transcription, induced by the he backward translocation of the enzyme along the DNA template, a phenomenon dubbed backtracking. Motivated by this finding and the implications transcriptional pausing has for the regulation of …
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RNA G-quadruplexes and polyamines effects on translation: data analysis and development of software for ribosome pause prediction
… described in chapter 2. The presence of ribosome pauses in the upstream of G-quadruplex regions and the lack of an existing tool to identify ribosome pause sites motivated me to develop a tool for the prediction of the ribosome pauses using ribosome profiling data. This lead to the development of …
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Pause
… a necessity within the rhythm of life. There are pauses everywhere around us; we pause when we breathe, we pause when we speak, and we pause when we think. Pause is a crucial part in the most beautiful pieces of music, it is in between our bites of food and sips of coffee. Pause is what makes life …
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Performance Insights for Mozart Piano Sonatas Derived from Eighteenth-Century Compositional Guides
… to tempos, dynamic changes, phrase separation, pauses, hierarchy of stresses, and other musical elements. The analyses offer more dramatic possibilities of expression, supplementing the innate communicative ability of the performer.
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The processing of formulaic language on elicited imitation tasks by second language speakers
… for articulation rate (AR) and number of silent pauses (NumSP), two important measures of L2 fluency. Repeated measures ANOVAs were conducted to examine the main and interaction effects of FS and sentence length (SL) on AR and NumSP. ^ Results of analyses of EI performances showed that both SL …
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Does acute hypoxia and high altitude exposure adversely affect cardiovascular performance?
… and asymptomatic nocturnal bradycardias and pauses (>3.0 seconds). There were no independent predictors of AMS and its severity. Conclusion: HA-related hypoxia induces early sympathetic activation leading to an increase in resting HR and central BP and may be proarrhythmic. Parasympathetic …
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Estimation problems in speech and natural language
… phonation-time ratio, mean length of silent pauses and the number of silent pauses per second are aspects of speech production that are well correlated with human assigned scores of fluency. The measures of lexical use that we found to correlate well with fluency scores were the total number …
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Spatial coordination - human and robotic communicative whole-body motions in narrow passages
… motions and motions which are bounded with pauses are clearer to interpret. A human interprets robotic motions as reaction to her / his own presence if the robotic motion is abrupt, e.g., humans attribute intentional behaviour more to a driving robot, which stops or to a robot which has not …
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Understanding urgency in borderline personality disorder: disinhibition or impulsive emotion regulation?
… main effect of condition on number of pauses during the PASAT-C, and a significant group effect on time to first pause during the PASAT-C, with trends towards both groups converging on more pausing at an earlier time point under conditions of a mood freeze manipulation. Urgency was the …
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