disfluent

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dis·flu·ent

(dis-flū'ent),

Relating to disfluency.

dis·flu·ent

(dis-flū'ĕnt)

Relating to dysfluency.

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When information is presented in a disfluent format, people tend to modify, and rely less on, their existing beliefs.

How the perceptual fluency of price discounts and promotional cues affect consumer responses

Thus, the detection of vowel lengthening and filled pauses could be an important step towards locating the disfluent regions and evaluating the spoken fluency skills of a speaker.

Experiments on Detection of Voiced Hesitations in Russian Spontaneous Speech

Lingering effects of disfluent material on the comprehension of garden path sentences.

La importancia de estudiar la prosodia en la comprension del discurso hablado espontaneo

In order to do this successfully, Zaidan and Callison-Burch (2011) state that "although many of the individual non-expert translators produce low- quality, disfluent translations, we show that it is possible to get high quality translations in aggregate by soliciting multiple translations, redundantly editing them, and then selecting the best of the bunch".

Crowdsourcing y traduccion colaborativa: ?fenomenos de masas o amenaza silenciosa para los estudios de traduccion?

That infants listen to and learn from overheard speech is supported by the recent report that infants around 2 years of age are able to distinguish fluent, well-formed utterances from disfluent utterances in adult-directed speech (Soderstrom & Morgan, 2007).

Claves para la categorizacion fonetica en el habla dirigida a adultos: evidencia de tres lenguas con caracteristicas vocalicas distintas

Our method, given a possibly disfluent utterance, is to produce only a partial parse with whatever can be made sense of, similar to other robotic systems we have described.

Toward humanlike task-based dialogue processing for human robot interaction

Among their topics are genetics and language, disfluent speech characteristics of monolingual Spanish speaking children, stuttering in English-Mandarin bilinguals in Singapore, and clinical updates and applications for treating bilingual stuttering in early childhood.

Multilingual aspects of fluency disorders

Timing patterns in fluent and disfluent spontaneous speech.

Measures of speech rhythm and the role of corpus-based word frequency: a multifactorial comparison of Spanish(-English) speakers

"So if something is hard to see or hear, it feels disfluent...

Difficult-to-read fonts 'can boost learning'

In this paper we have argued that the problem of stuttering can usefully be viewed in these terms, as involving not merely the behavioral production of disfluent speech, but also the construction, across time, of a sense of self that is problem-saturated and resistant to change.

8 Talking back to stuttering: constructivist contributions to stuttering treatment

Even if Jack works hard practicing appropriate behavior, his new behavior may be disfluent and he may feel that he is not true to his "real self": his characteristic, rapid, automatic, effortless, context and stimulus-appropriate behavior (Fraley, 1998; Johnson & Layng, 1996).

Towards understanding the meaning of affectionate verbal behavior; towards creating romantic loving