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Intelligibility and comprehensibility: A Delphi consensus study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Background: Intelligibility and comprehensibility in speech disorders can be assessed both perceptually and instrumentally, but a lack of consensus exists regarding the terminology and related speech measures in both the clinical and scientific fields.
Mauclair Julie   +4 more
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The impact of automatic speech recognition technology on second language pronunciation and speaking skills of EFL learners: a mixed methods investigation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionThis study employed an explanatory sequential design to examine the impact of utilizing automatic speech recognition technology (ASR) with peer correction on the improvement of second language (L2) pronunciation and speaking skills among ...
Weina Sun
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Alignment in ASR and L1 Listeners’ Recognition of L2 Learner Speech: French EFL Learners & Dictation.Io

open access: yesResearch in Language, 2023
This study is an extension of Inceoglu et al.’s (2023) study on Google Voice Typing as a pronunciation learning tool. We used the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) tool on the dictation.io website (Agarwal, 2022), and our participants were L2 English ...
Vincent Chanethom, Alice Henderson
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Vowel Quality and Direction of Stress Shift in a Predictive Model Explaining the Varying Impact of Misplaced Word Stress: Evidence From English

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2021
The use of suprasegmental cues to word stress occurs across many languages. Nevertheless, L1 English listeners' pay little attention to suprasegmental word stress cues and evidence shows that segmental cues are more important to L1 English listeners in ...
Monica Ghosh, John M. Levis
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On the Comprehensibility of EU Legislation: Reform for a sustainable EU [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
(Beitrag 5. Europäisches Symposium zur Verständlichkeit von Rechtsvorschriften) EU legislation is currently speaking to EU institutions, and Member States and their national authorities. It is therefore detached from EU citizens.
Xanthaki, Helen
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Comprehension syntax [PDF]

open access: yesACM SIGMOD Record, 1994
The syntax of comprehensions is very close to the syntax of a number of practical database query languages and is, we believe, a better starting point than first-order logic for the development of database languages. We give an informal account of a language based on comprehension syntax that deals uniformly with a variety of collection types; it also ...
Peter Buneman   +4 more
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Comprehensibility assessment using the Karlsruhe comprehensibility concept

open access: yesJoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2009
This article makes a contribution to text and translation quality assessment in the functionalist paradigm. It presents a communication-oriented framework for the evaluation of pragmatic texts including their translations with regard to their ...
Susanne Göpferich
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Disentangling accent from comprehensibility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The goal of this study was to determine which linguistic aspects of second language speech are related to accent and which to comprehensibility. To address this goal, 19 different speech measures in the oral productions of 40 native French speakers of ...
Trofimovich, P, Isaacs, Talia
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On the Comprehension of Program Comprehension

open access: yesACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2014
Research in program comprehension has evolved considerably over the past decades. However, only little is known about how developers practice program comprehension in their daily work. This article reports on qualitative and quantitative research to comprehend the strategies, tools, and knowledge used for program comprehension.
Maalej, Walid   +3 more
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Deconstructing comprehensibility: identifying the linguistic influences on listeners' L2 comprehensibility ratings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Comprehensibility, a major concept in second language (L2) pronunciation research that denotes listeners’ perceptions of how easily they understand L2 speech, is central to interlocutors’ communicative success in real-world contexts.
Isaacs, T, Trofimovich, P
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