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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Referential communication"”.
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Conversational Implicature in Children's Referential Communication
… Quantity, Relation, and Manner. That children's referential communication deviates from the CP is very well-documented: the Quantity Maxim, which requires speakers to give as much information as the listener needs but not more, seems lacking in both the speaking and listening skills of grade …
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Aging and Referential Communication: Insights from Interactions with Artificial Agents
… Language is a fundamental component of everyday communication, not only in the context of interactions with humans but also with artificial agents. There are now increasing multidisciplinary efforts to develop technologies that provide assistance and/or companionship to older adults through …
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A Thing Is What We Say It Is: Referential Communication and Indirect Category Learning
This study investigates the interaction of referential communication and the structure of perceptual features on the joint processes of inventing a referential lexicon for novel objects and discovering the functional significance of those objects during an indirect category learning activity. …
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Talk your way to happiness: an exploration of the reciprocal relationship between emotion and communication
… trigger appropriate cognitive strategies. During communication, positive mood is associated with increased ambiguity, due to less detailed processing. However, communicative episodes take time, during which mood itself may be altered by communication. This thesis represents the first systematic …
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Effects of Semantic + Multimodal Communication Program for Switching Behavior in Severe Aphasia
… in verbal expression. Traditionally, alternative communication modalities are trained separately to augment or replace verbal output. However, adults with aphasia often have executive function deficits, specifically deficits in cognitive flexibility, which affect the communicative flexibility of …
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Cognition and communication in children/adolescents with cochlear implant
… for them to develop skills related to spoken communication. We have little knowledge about how hearing with a CI influences cognitive and communicative development and there is a need for development of methods for assessment. The general purpose of this thesis was to explore the interaction …
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There's more to the picture than meets the ear - Gaze behavior during communication in children with hearing impairment
… with normal hearing peers. The study uses a referential communication task requiring the speaker to make relevant descriptions, and the listener to use verbal and nonverbal means to resolve uncertainties. Analyses focus on verbal questions and answers (paper 1), nonverbal gaze behavior in …