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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"Utterance"”.
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Automatic utterance segmentation in spontaneous speech
… lower and higher level cues to perform the utterance endpointing task. The analysis involves obtaining the optimal parameters for the signal level utterance segmenter, a component of the speech recognition system in the Cognitive Machines Group, and exploring the incorporation of pause …
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The Parted Voice: Polyvocal Utterance in Victorian Elegies
… the voice of the mourner not only as to express utterances of sorrow, but also to assert poetic authority, to navigate collective loss, and respond to historical changes in poetic reception over the nineteenth century. Bringing together formalist and historicist approaches, its close readings …
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Introducing builder perspective in minecraft architect utterance generation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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"Mood-Stuff" and "Metaphoric Utterance": Norman Corwin's radio art
Norman Corwin (1910-2011) is widely acclaimed as the best radio writer in early American radio art (from the early 1920s to 1950). Ample research has been done on him as a radio dramatist, patriotic propagandist, and innovative journalist yet there are areas of his radio art career that have had …
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Utterance verification in large vocabulary spoken language understanding system
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Neutral Tone in Mandarin: Representation and Interaction with Utterance-level Prosody
… Part B explores the interaction between NTs and utterance-level prosody in production and perception experiments. NT-bearing syllables have lengthening patterns under focus similar to CT-bearing syllables, in contrast to the realization of unstressed syllables in English. In perception, the …
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Split-half Reliability of MLU and MLU2 in Two Methods of Utterance Segmentation
Concerns regarding Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) has led to adaptations of this method of analysis. A recent study by Johnston (2001) introduced an alternative to MLU called MLU2. The current study investigates the split-half reliability of MLU and MLU2 as well as another alternative, Median …
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Developmental patterns of Spanish grammatical morphemes and mean length of utterance in bilingual children
… et al., in preparation). Mean length of utterance in words (MLUw) data was collected from language samples. The average percent accuracy of grammatical morphemes was calculated and analyzed as a function of MLUw in Spanish. Results show that the percentage of accurately produced morphemes …
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The pragmatics and evolution of the utterance-final particles -ketun and -canha in Modern Spoken Korean
The pragmatics and evolution of the utterance-final particles -ketun and -canha in Modern Spoken Korean
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Utterance and Authorship in Dialogic Art: or An Account of a Barcamp in Response to the Question, ‘What is Dialogic Art?’
The written aspect of this practice-based thesis ‘collates’ a one-day event exploring the question, ‘What is dialogic art?’ into a textual account. The practical aspect threads through this account, with reference to its dissemination elsewhere made frequently. The event ‘documented’ here is a …
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Influence of the Sex of the Communicators and Knowledge of Communication Effectiveness on Length of Utterance and Lexical Selection in Spontaneousspeech
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Analyzing the influence of utterance fluency across assessed speaking profiles in the oral English placement test at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Fonologinių sutrikimų raiška mokykliniame amžiuje /
… age puils concerning their oral and written utterance. The comparative data analysis was used. 150 pupils' (1 – 4 grade) school documents were analysed. In the empirical part the most important issues were dealt: expression and the meaning of phonological disorders for fluent pupil …
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Acoustic and perceptual analyses of politeness in Japanese speech
… fO and temporal aspects of polite and casual utterances of two question sentences spoken by six male native speakers were acoustically analysed. The analysis showed that fO movement of the final part of utterances and speech rate of utterance were consistently differently used in these …
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The Semantics of Indicative Mood Modal Constructions
… for epistemic modality. I argue that not every utterance of a modal sentence involving 'may' or 'possible that' expresses the epistemic reading, that the problematic examples are cases where the utterance is ambiguous between epistemic and circumstantial readings, and that it is the …
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Sentence -Final Particles as Attitude Markers in Mandarin Chinese
… context. In order to express and interpret an utterance correctly, in addition to the compositional meaning of the utterance, the speaker and interpreter need to take into consideration pragmatic factors such as presuppositions, beliefs, intentions and goals when inferring the implication(s) of …
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Understanding language
… interpreted. We perceive a speaker's utterance as having content, and it is by perceiving the speaker's utterances as having the right content that we understand what the speaker says. We count as understanding language (roughly) in virtue of having this capacity to understand what …
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The interpretation and use of numerically-quantified expressions
… demonstrably relevant to the speaker's choice of utterance in such cases. Observing further that it is typically impossible to satisfy all these criteria with a single utterance, I suggest that the speaker's choice of utterance can be construed as a problem of multiple constraint satisfaction. …
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A comparison-based approach to mispronunciation detection
… warping (DTW) is carried out between a student's utterance (nonnative speech) and a teacher's utterance (native speech), and we focus on detecting mis-alignment in the warping path and the distance matrix. The first stage of the system locates word boundaries in the nonnative utterance. To handle …
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