Search results for "speech"

Vaya valla! The phenomenon of "yeísmo" in oral Spanish in Valencia

2016

En los últimos años, el fenómeno del yeísmo ha sido abordado desde diferentes perspectivas; una de ellas es la sociolingüística, a la que nuestro trabajo pretende contribuir. El objetivo de este artículo es presentar cómo evoluciona el proceso fonético de deslateralización del fonema /ʎ/ a favor de /ʝ/ en el castellano de la comunidad de habla bilingüe de Valencia y su área metropolitana. Tradicionalmente se ha señalado que Valencia mantenía la diferenciación entre la lateral y fricativa palatales, pero estudios recientes dan cuenta de la introducción y expansión del yeísmo en determinadas comarcas bilingües de la Comunidad Valenciana. En el análisis sociolingüístico realizado actúan grupos…

Study in children with reading disabilities and familial risk for dyslexia and Russian second-language

2013

Associations Between Sympathetic Nervous System Synchrony, Movement Synchrony, and Speech in Couple Therapy

2022

Background: Research on interpersonal synchrony has mostly focused on a single modality, and hence little is known about the connections between different types of social attunement. In this study, the relationship between sympathetic nervous system synchrony, movement synchrony, and the amount of speech were studied in couple therapy. Methods: Data comprised 12 couple therapy cases (24 clients and 10 therapists working in pairs as co-therapists). Synchrony in electrodermal activity, head and body movement, and the amount of speech and simultaneous speech during the sessions were analyzed in 12 sessions at the start of couple therapy (all 72 dyads) and eight sessions at the end of therapy (…

SearchBot: Supporting voice conversations with proactive search

2018

Searching during conversations and social interactions is becoming increasingly common. Although searching could be helpful for solving arguments, building common ground, and reinforcing mutual assumptions, it can also cause inter-actional problems. Proactive search approaches can enrich conversations with additional information without neglecting the shared and established social norms of being attentive to ongoing interaction. This demo showcases SearchBot, a tool that minimizes the issues associated with the practice of searching during conversations. It accomplishes this by tracking conversational background speech and then providing continuous recommendations of related documents and e…

Exploiting ongoing EEG with multilinear partial least squares during free-listening to music

2016

During real-world experiences, determining the stimulus-relevant brain activity is excitingly attractive and is very challenging, particularly in electroencephalography. Here, spectrograms of ongoing electroencephalogram (EEG) of one participant constructed a third-order tensor with three factors of time, frequency and space; and the stimulus data consisting of acoustical features derived from the naturalistic and continuous music formulated a matrix with two factors of time and the number of features. Thus, the multilinear partial least squares (PLS) conforming to the canonical polyadic (CP) model was performed on the tensor and the matrix for decomposing the ongoing EEG. Consequently, we …

Combining PCA and multiset CCA for dimension reduction when group ICA is applied to decompose naturalistic fMRI data

2015

An extension of group independent component analysis (GICA) is introduced, where multi-set canonical correlation analysis (MCCA) is combined with principal component analysis (PCA) for three-stage dimension reduction. The method is applied on naturalistic functional MRI (fMRI) images acquired during task-free continuous music listening experiment, and the results are compared with the outcome of the conventional GICA. The extended GICA resulted slightly faster ICA convergence and, more interestingly, extracted more stimulus-related components than its conventional counterpart. Therefore, we think the extension is beneficial enhancement for GICA, especially when applied to challenging fMRI d…

Visual Distraction Effects of In-Car Text Entry Methods

2017

Three text entry methods were compared in a driving simulator study with 17 participants. Ninety-seven drivers’ occlusion distance (OD) data mapped on the test routes was used as a baseline to evaluate the methods’ visual distraction potential. Only the voice recognition-based text entry tasks passed the set verification criteria. Handwriting tasks were experienced as the most demanding and the voice recognition tasks as the least demanding. An individual in-car glance length preference was found, but against expectations, drivers’ ODs did not correlate with incar glance lengths or visual short-term memory capacity. The handwriting method was further studied with 24 participants with instru…

Ražošanas robežas un kārtība: Amatnieciskās mājas vīna darīšanas Latvijā gadījumu izpēte

2015

Pētījums „Ražošanas robežas un kārtība: Amatnieciskās mājas vīna ražošanas Latvijā gadījumu izpēte” fokusējas uz „formālajā tirgus daļā” ieejošo vīndaru pieredzi. Kvalitatīvās metodes ir pielietotas, lai analizētu, kā viņi pieņem, pielāgo vai apstrīd normatīvo regulējumu un pieņēmumus par to, kas ir Latvijas vīns un kā tam vajadzētu tikt ražotam un izplatītam konkrēta tirgus sektora ietvarā post-industriālajā ekonomikā. Analīze rāda, ka vīndari neuztver normatīvo regulējumu kā apgrūtinājumu, bet gan gūst baudu un lepnumu no spējas radīt savu vīnu tā kontekstā un caur to, radot augstas kvalitātes amatniecības produktu, ko iekāro patērētāji. Analīze rāda arī, ka, lai gan ražošanas investīcija…

Contraintes et libertés textuelles

2006

The article starts from a conception of language according to which the semiotic units that speakers use do not emanate from individual mental processes but from the socialization of representation instruments which, being individual elements initially, have later been involved in processes of communicative circulation. In the same way that, in each language, verbal uses are limited by a series of restrictions in the constitution of some phonic, lexical or morphosyntactic structures, there are also some other constraints that affect textual genres. This means that these are the product of the history of the uses of language and that they work at a praxeologic level. These ideas apply to the…

The role of motor system in action-related language comprehension in L1 and L2: An fMRI study

2018

The framework of embodied cognition has challenged the modular view of a language-cognition divide by suggesting that meaning-retrieval critically involves the sensory-motor system. Despite extensive research into the neural mechanisms underlying language-motor coupling, it remains unclear how the motor system might be differentially engaged by different levels of linguistic abstraction and language proficiency. To address this issue, we used fMRI to quantify neural activations in brain regions underlying motor and language processing in Chinese-English speakers’ processing of literal, metaphorical, and abstract language in their L1 and L2. Results overall revealed a response in motor ROIs …