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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"language production"”.
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Communication Disorder and Language Production in Schizophrenia
… between communication disorder subtypes and language production disturbances in psychotic individuals. Specifically, it was hypothesized that: (1) tangential responses and losses of goal would be related to discourse planning deficits; (2) referential problems would be related to monitoring …
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Lexical differentiation in language production and comprehension
… the breadth of the relevant discourse context in language production and comprehension. Previous evidence from language production suggests the relevant context is quite broad, based on findings that speakers differentiate new discourse referents from similar referents discussed in past contexts …
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Intonational phrasing in language production and comprehension
… prefer to place intonational boundaries in language production. The second was to understand where listeners prefer to hear boundaries in language comprehension.
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Written language production in deaf children and adults
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Types of interference and their resolution in monolingual language production
… to manage the conflicting demands of online language production, e.g., when selecting from among co-activated representations during object naming or when suppressing alternative competing terms in referential language use. However, little is known about the types of conflict resolution …
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Natural language production as a process of decision-making under constraints
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1980.
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Phonetic Features in Language Production: An Experimental Examination of Phonetic Feature Errors
… us about the function of phonetic features in language planning have come from examinations of naturally occurring speech error corpora (Shattuck-Hufnagel & Klatt, 1979, Stemberger, 1982). Four experiments were conducted to examine unambiguous feature errors in error elicitation tasks. …
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A tale of two modalities: How modality shapes language production and visual attention
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"Syntactic and Lexical Choices in Language Production: What We Can Learn From ""That"""
… word mention of two general approaches to language production. One approach claims that language production processes choose syntactic structures that ease the task of creating sentences; specifically, syntactic structures are used that permit words to be spoken as they are retrieved from …
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Exploring language production, comprehension and naming in adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
… of this study were i) to evaluate the domains of language production, comprehension and naming in children with moderate or heavy prenatal exposure to alcohol, and ii) to determine if these domains are a specific weakness in these children. The study compared 25 children with FASD to 25 typically …
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Cohesion and Coherence in the Language Production of a Selected Group of Secondary Bilingual Students
The focus of this dissertation is on the problem of describing discourse of an explanatory nature produced by a selected group of secondary bilingual students. It was necessary to find a method whereby relationships between various semantic features within a text could be identified and described …
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The effect of immersive conversational AI on immigrant students' second language production and willingness to communicate
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Language Growth of Day Care Children: Long Term Enrollment Effects on Vocabulary, Language Comprehension and Language Production
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Word prediction in assistive technologies for Aphasia rehabilitation in using Systemic Functional Grammar
… the potential application of Natural Language Processing techniques in order to improve the effectiveness of assistive technologies in aphasia rehabilitation. Aphasia rehabilitation has predominately been centered on therapy sessions with speech language pathologists. While …
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Lexical Representation and Processing in Second Language Learners
While research on monolingual language production and processing has led to the positing of different levels of lexical representation, investigations of the bilingual lexicon have mainly focused on the relationship between the two languages. To explore whether the L2 learner develops an L2 …
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The prominence of referring expressions: message and lexical level effects
… the relationship between processing in the language production system and the prominence of referring expressions. In particular, this thesis focuses on the effect of processing at the message and lexical levels of language production. Across seven experiments, I examine three factors that …
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Tails as Teachers: Animal-Assisted Therapy and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… The “typical” symptomology consists of language and social impairments. The study was divided into two research conditions: 1) a “no dog” condition, and 2) a “dog” condition.” The child participated in three videotaped sessions, all of which were coded for spontaneous speech utterances …
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