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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"language perception"”.
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Monitoring in language perception an electrophysiological investigation
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Phonological transfer in second language perception and production
… provides an account of how a speaker's first language (L1) influences his/her second language (L2) speech, an effect also known as cross-language transfer. The account of transfer proposed here relies on theoretical constructs and techniques from linguistics, psycholinguistics and, to a …
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Low-cost Agents with Language Perception and Dynamic Inference
… tasks and environments. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown strong generalization capabilities by leveraging high-level abstractions of the world through language. In this thesis, we propose leveraging language as a perceptual representation to enable LLM-based agents to …
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Cross-Language Perception of German Vowels by Speakers of American English
This study focuses on how the cross-language perception of German vowels by native speakers of North American English differs based on various levels of classroom instruction and experience in a German-speaking country. Of special interest is whether more advanced students and those with target …
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Representation Learning Through the Lens of Science: Symmetry, Language and Symbolic Inductive Biases
… advancements in fields such as speech, vision, language perception and generation, as well as solving complex scientific problems like protein folding. Despite its success, the prevailing method of end-to-end supervised learning faces challenges, including the need for large datasets, …
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A BEHAVIORAL EVALUATION OF A PRESCHOOL INTERPERSONAL PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM
… consisted of the following core components: language, perception, problem identification, empathy, alternative generation, consequential thinking, and integration. The sample consisted of 46 children, 23 children in the experimental group and 23 children in the control group. Both …
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Towards a Phenomenology of Literary Language: Wyndham Lewis and the Expressions of Being
… the phenomenological potentialities of literary language, this thesis contemplates Lewis as an incarnated speaking subject committed to the coherent deformation of linguistic structures as a method to formulate a phenomenology of ourselves. Lewis’s literary practice, in fact, developed as a …
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Identity and Awareness: Manifestations of Self and Persona in Early Modern English Drama
… that the three corresponding media, that is, language, perception, and action, do not only give characters an opportunity to manifest aspects of their public persona; they also represent that dramatic world, its social conditions, and the identity of others to the characters I examine. Besides …
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The Effect of Three Different Levels of Skill Training in Musical Timbre Discrimination on Alphabet Sound Discrimination in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Children
… indicated similarities between aural music and language perception. Psychoacoustic and neurological findings have reported the discrimination of alphabet quality and musical timbre to be similar perceptual functions and have provided, through imaging technology, physical evidence of music …
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Transitions-felt: William James, Locative Narrative and the Multi-stable Field of Expanded Narrative
… here stands in for three aspects of experience: language, perception and belief. While ambiguity and misperceptions have been recognised in the literature of experiential narrative practices, further exposition is required. The thesis asks what are the conditions in which the qualities of the …
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Application of Multiple Kernel Learning on Brain Imaging for Mental Illness Characterization
… disease characterized by perturbations in language, perception, thinking, social relationships and will that affects about 1% of the U.S. population. Besides the absence of an objective assessment of symptoms to diagnose schizophrenia, not even a set of symptoms that uniquely characterize …
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State personhood and world politics: a personology of the South African state
… by profound disruptions in thinking, affecting language, perception, and the sense of self [that] can impair functioning through the loss of an acquired capability to earn a livelihood, or the disruption of studies”. If schizophrenia is a disorder of the human mind, then diagnosing a state with …
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A study of vowels /ɛ/ and /ɪ/ in African American English and standard American English
… duration measurements. I then performed speech perception tests using the same speech samples. My analyses support and contradict claims about AAE and SAE, particularly with respect to speaker participation in vowel shifts such as the Northern Cities Shift (NCS), Southern Shift (SS), and pin-pen …
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German Idealism, Analytic Philosophy, and Realism
"Can one know mind-independent reality?" There are two fundamental positions concerning this question: either 1) mind-independent existence causes us to know mind-independent existence, or 2) all knowledge is a construct of the human mind, and therefore mind-independent existence is unknowable. …