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Pausing before verb production is associated with mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 BackgroundCognitive dysfunction and communication impairment are common and disabling symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). Action verb deficits occur in PD, but it remains unclear if these impairments are related to motor system dysfunction and/or ...
Eduardo Inacio Nascimento Andrade +3 more
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Speech Pauses and Pronominal Anaphors
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2021 This paper addresses the usefulness of speech pauses for determining whether third person neuter gender singular pronouns refer to individual or abstract entities in Danish spoken language.
Costanza Navarretta
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Semantic interference affects speech production by increasing disfluencies, not errors
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Several studies have shown that different types of disfluency occur depending on the language production stage at which people experience difficulties.
Kelly Rapoeye +2 more
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Stuttering after Intravenous Anesthesia: A Case Report
Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2021 Stuttering is a form of speech disorder characterized by involuntary prolongation and repetition of sound, words, syllables or phrases as well as involuntary silent pauses or blocks.
Suraj Lamichhane +2 more
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Revista CEFAC, 2007 OBJETIVO: investigar a distribuição e funções das pausas silenciosas no discurso oral em narrações de programas de televisão de natureza diferenciada. MÉTODOS: para este estudo foram selecionadas amostras de fala de dois jornalistas em cinco programas de
Cláudia Cotes
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Why um helps auditory word recognition: the temporal delay hypothesis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Several studies suggest that speech understanding can sometimes benefit from the presence of filled pauses (uh, um, and the like), and that words following such filled pauses are recognised more quickly. Three experiments examined whether this is because
Martin Corley, Robert J Hartsuiker
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Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2023 Although the debilitative effect of foreign language anxiety (FLA) on second-language (L2) performance and L2 speaking has repeatedly been shown, it is unclear in what way FLA affects L2 fluency and the speech production processes that lead to (dis ...
Myrthe M. S. J. Rood, Nivja H. de Jong
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Silent pauses in the oral reading task: Pausing patterns and reasons for pauses [PDF]
International Journal of English and Literature, 2017 This study investigated the occurrence of silent pauses, duration, frequency, distribution and the reasons for inappropriate pausing patterns in L2 reading tasks. The oral reading pauses of 44 Chinese learners of English as a Foreign Language were measured using two subtests of a proficiency speaking test, and the reasons for the measured pausing ...
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Automatic detection of prosodic boundaries in spontaneous speech.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) are expected to benefit from an effective, simple, and reliable method to automatically parse conversational speech.
Tirza Biron +7 more
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Pauses and Repetition on Students' Proposal Presentation [PDF]
, 2022 Difficulties in delivering and understanding presentations can be due to several factors, especially in the psycholinguistics aspect, and due to errors.
Yusuf, Israwati +2 more
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