Language and Speech articles from September 1 2001

Language and Speech archives from September 1 2001

Rethinking the Word Frequency effect: the neglected role of distributional information in lexical processing *.
September 1, 2001... Abstract Attempts to quantify lexical variation have produced a large number of theoretical and empirical constructs, such as Word Frequency, Concreteness, and Ambiguity, which have been claimed to predict between-word differences in...

The effect of production variables in monolog and dialog on comprehension by novel listeners *.
September 1, 2001... Abstract Prior research has identified a number of dimensions along which speakers modify referring expressions. The present study aimed to determine and describe the actual relationship existing between these production characteristics...

Processing of orthographic structure by adults of different reading ability *.
September 1, 2001... Abstract The research presented here examines the proposal that orthographic processing in reading polysyllabic words takes place via an analysis of the word into an orthographic/morphological structure called the Basic Orthographic...

Obtaining phonetic transcriptions: a comparison between expert listeners and a continuous speech recognizer *.
September 1, 2001... Abstract In this article, we address the issue of using a continuous speech recognition tool to obtain phonetic or phonological representations of speech. Two experiments were carried out in which the performance of a continuous speech...