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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"word lists"”.
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The Effects of Hydrocortisone And Caffeine on Memory for Word Lists
… caffeine, or placebo, the subjects heard 8 word lists, each containing 12 words. Four lists were heard at a slow rate and four lists at a fast rate. Subjects heard one list at a time, followed immediately by a written recall test. Subjects' recall was again tested 60, 90, 120, and 150 …
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The Interactive Effects of Caffeine and Estrogen on Memory for Word Lists
… results regarding the effects of caffeine on word list recall. Erikson et al. (1985) found that caffeine impaired recall among females when words were presented at a slow rate. Arnold et al. (1988) observed a facilitory effect of caffeine on the recall, after practice, of females tested during …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Bisyllabic Word Lists for Word Recognition Testing in Taiwan Mandarin
… equate a set of Taiwan Mandarin bisyllabic word lists to be used for word recognition testing. Frequently used bisyllabic words were selected and digitally recorded by male and female talkers of Taiwan Mandarin. Twenty normally hearing subjects were presented each word to find the percentage …
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Retroactive Inhibition With Aggressive and Non-Aggressive Word Lists in Neurotic and Normal Subjects
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:50:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0016427.pdf: 4247178 bytes, checksum: 5c44e35e698b3f5d2d9e6868851b6e08 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1956
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Processing strategies and recall performance for narrative passages and word lists of negative and neutral affective valence in depression
… The present study examined prose passage and word list recall in depressed and nondepressed college students. Processing times and structure of recall were also examined to assist in determining how material was processed and remembered. Half of the passages and word lists utilized were of …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Cantonese Bisyllabic Word Recognition Materials Spoken by Male and Female Talkers
… study was to create psychometrically equivalent word lists in the language of Cantonese for word recognition testing. Frequently used bisyllabic Cantonese words were recorded by a native female and male talker. The word lists were evaluated by administering the word recognition lists to 20 native …
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The Development of Word Recognition Materials for Native Speakers of Tongan
… equate a set of Tongan bisyllabic word lists for use in measurement of word recognition testing. Commonly used bisyllabic words were digitally recorded by male and female native talkers of Tongan. The psychometric performance of the words was measured at ten intensity levels (- 5 to …
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Comparison of Speech Audiometry Stimulus Lists on Hearing Impaired and Normal Hearing Subjects
… speech recognition and speech intelligibility word lists were investigated. It has been reported that the use of two-syllable spondee words that are comprised of high frequency sounds may more accurately represent the true speech recognition abilities of those individuals with a high frequency …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Digital Recordings for Speech Audiometry Testing in Mandarin Chinese: Standard Mandarin Dialect
… develop, digitally record, evaluate, and equate words and word lists in Mandarin Chinese to use for speech reception threshold testing and for speech discrimination testing. The words that were evaluated were chosen from a Chinese frequency usage dictionary. One native male and one native female …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Arabic Monosyllabic Word Recognition Materials
… equate a set of Arabic monosyllabic word lists to use in the measurement of the word recognition score. Familiar Arabic monosyllabic words were digitally recorded by a native male talker from Jordan who was judged to have a standard Arabic dialect. Twenty native Arabic participants …
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An analytical study of word frequency for pedagogical purposes based on a corpus derived from the business news sections of locally published English language newspapers in Taiwan
… comprehension. For this study, a 1.23 million-word Taiwanese Business News Corpus (TBNC) was created by collecting business news articles from English language newspapers published in Taiwan. This corpus was used to investigate the word frequency of business news genre. Based on the word …
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Spelling instruction for beginning writers in whole language classrooms
… programs. Traditional approaches that involve word lists and weekly spelling tests are not in accordance with whole language beliefs.
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Spelling instruction for beginning writers in whole language classrooms
… programs. Traditional approaches that involve word lists and weekly spelling tests are not in accordance with whole language beliefs.
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The corpus, word list, and usability analysis for the corpus of extended reality
There are multiple uses for word lists and corpora inside of linguistics-based research and studies; however, their primary function is the evaluation of authentic language for pedagogical application. This study presents both current and novel methods of approaching word list curation, word list …
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Measuring and comparing the readability and vocabulary coverage of CNN, China Post and Taipei Times
… for vocabulary course design with the word lists of the 1st 1,000 GSL, 2nd 1,000 GSL and the AWL based on the different news classifications could be applied.<br/><br/>From the results of the vocabulary levels examined by BNC word lists, the vocabulary levels of the different news …
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Social change, class formation and English : a study of young black South Africans with "Model C" school backgrounds.
This study is based on interviews and recorded word-lists from 44 young (under 25) black South Africans who have been educated in the former white school system, studying at the University of Cape Town. It considers their life experiences, particularly as regards their schooling. It also …
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Rainbow Rummy : a Web-based game for vocabulary acquisition using computer-directed speech
… the use of flashcards or cycling through long word lists for memorization. While many students learn effectively in this way, research at the Spoken Language Systems Group (SLS) has been exploring alternative methods which make use of speech recognition and generation technology. In this …
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Training of Self-Study Spelling Strategies and their Effectiveness on Fourth Grade Students
… the treatment and control groups. Two fifteen word banks were constructed to serve as pre and posttests. With no directions as to which study strategies to employ, students in both groups were asked to study word lists for 15 minutes. Following the allotted time, the groups were pretested. …
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Effects of high and low frequency differentials on verbal discrimination learning
… on verbal discrimination learning. Two 16 item-word lists were constructed. In the high differential (HD) list were word pairs in which the relative background frequency of the two words in each pair was at least 5 to 1. The low differential (LD) list was made up of word pairs in which the …
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Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds)
… first motive is to investigate how and why new words are created from existing ones. The reading and data interpretation seeks an understanding of word formation and an overview of semantic compositionality, structure and productivity, within the broad context of cognitive, lexicalist and …
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