Spoken Language Comprehension
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Author | : Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Spoken Language Comprehensionis the first coherent presentation of an original detailed experimental and theoretical account of what are rationally taken to be "online" processing deficits that lie at the core of aphasic miscomprehension. It presents exciting work that is highly relevant to the important current debate about the nature of aphasic comprehension impairment and its relationship to models of normal functioning. Lorraine K. Tyler focuses on a crucial but neglected aspect of language disorders: how the real-time analysis processes involved in comprehending spoken language break down in acquired aphasia. She describes a new approach to the study of language disorders that specifies the processes involved in the immediate construction of various types of linguistic representations. Her unique large-scale analysis makes possible the evaluation of various theoretical accounts of the underlying basis of different kinds of aphasic deficits. By developing a set of experimental tests designed to detect specific deficits in the principal categories of real-time comprehension, Tyler constructs a processing profile of ten patients that shows where each patient performs normally and where performance breaks down. This provides a detailed picture of a patient's ability to perform the appropriate analyses of speech input: breaking down the speech signal, recognizing words, making the appropriate form-function mapping, and constructing the appropriate types of higher-level representations (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic). Data from standard tests of comprehension deficits are also included, which permits comparison of performance in various tasks and among patients to see where differences and similarities emerge. Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler is Professor of Psychology at the University of London.
Author | : Kate Cain |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2008-05-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1593858329 |
Comprehension is the ultimate aim of reading and listening. How do children develop the ability to comprehend written and spoken language, and what can be done to help those who are having difficulties? This book presents cutting-edge research on comprehension problems experienced by children without any formal diagnosis as well as those with specific language impairment, autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, hearing impairment, head injuries, and spina bifida. Providing in-depth information to guide research and practice, chapters describe innovative assessment strategies and identify important implications for intervention and classroom instruction. The book also sheds light on typical development and the key cognitive skills and processes that underlie successful comprehension.
Author | : Angela D. Friederici |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3642599672 |
The second edition of the book on language comprehension in honor of Pim Levelt's sixtieth birthday has been released before he turns sixty-one. Some things move faster than the years of age. This seems to be especially true for advances in science. Therefore, the present edition entails changes in some of the chapters and incorporates an update of the current literature. I would like to thank all contributors for their cooperation in making a second edition possible such a short time after the completion of the first one. Angela D. Friederici Leipzig, November 23, 1998. Preface to the first edition Language comprehension and production is a uniquely human capability. We know little about the evolution of language as a human trait, possibly because our direct ancestors lived several million years ago. This fact certainly impedes the desirable advances in the biological basis of any theory of language evolution. Our knowledge about language as an existing species-specific biological sys tem, however, has advanced dramatically over the last two decades. New experi mental techniques have allowed the investigation of language and language use within the methodological framework of the natural sciences. The present book provides an overview of the experimental research in the area of language com prehension in particular.
Author | : Niels O. Schiller |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2011-07-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110895099 |
This edited volume investigates the role of phonetics and phonology in psycholinguistics. Speaking and understanding spoken language both engage phonological and phonetic knowledge. There are detailed models of phonological and phonetic encoding in language production and there are equally refined models of phonetic and phonological processing in language comprehension. However, since most psycholinguists work on either language production or comprehension, the relationship between the two has received surprisingly little attention. Prominent researchers in various areas of psycholinguistics were invited to discuss this relationship focusing on the phonological and phonetic components.
Author | : Peter Christen Asbjørnsen |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780156901505 |
The three billy goats outsmart the hungry troll who lives under the bridge.
Author | : Signy Sheldon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780494214039 |
The presented studies attempt to further our understanding of spoken language comprehension as the interaction of the perceptual and cognitive systems. To do so, we used noise-vocoded speech (Shannon et al., 1995) in which the amplitude envelope of speech is preserved but the tine structure cues within specified frequency bands is oblierated. In study one, older adults were only able to identify as many vocoded words as younger if the words were presented with the ability to use envelope cues cumulatively. In study 2, we examine how comprehension benefits from two types of contextual support, predictability and repetition of sentence context, when identifying words in noise-vocoded sentences. Younger and older adults benefited from both types of supportive context independently and interactively, but older adults benefited even more than younger adults in all conditions. The findings suggest that younger and older adults differ in the processes used to comprehend spoken language.
Author | : John M. Levis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1108416624 |
An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.
Author | : Dorothy V. M. Bishop |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2014-03-14 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1134607180 |
This is a Classic Edition of Dorothy Bishop's award-winning textbook on the development of language comprehension, which has been in print since 1997, and now includes a new introduction from the author. The book won the British Psychological Society book award in 1999, and is now widely seen as a classic in the field of developmental language disorders. Uncommon Understanding provides a comprehensive account of the process of comprehension, from the reception of an acoustic signal, to the interpretation of communicative intentions, and integrates a vast field of research on language acquisition, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology. In the new introduction Dorothy Bishop reflects on the organization of the book, and developments in the field since the book was first published. A major theme in the book is that comprehension should not be viewed as a unitary skill – to understand spoken language one needs the ability to classify incoming speech sounds, to relate them to a "mental lexicon," to interpret the propositions encoded by word order and grammatical inflections, and to use information from the environmental and social context to grasp an intended meaning. Another important theme is that although neuropsychological and experimental research on adult comprehension provides useful concepts and methods for assessing comprehension, it should be applied with caution, because a sequential, bottom-up information processing model of comprehension is ill-suited to the developmental context. Although the main focus of the book is on research and theory, rather than practical matters of assessment and intervention, the theoretical framework presented in the book will continue to help clinicians develop a clearer understanding of what comprehension involves, and how different types of difficulty may be pin-pointed.
Author | : Christopher Was |
Publisher | : Information Science Reference |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781522510055 |
"This book enriches the current pool of educational research with cutting-edge applications of eye tracking in education and seeking to advance this emergent, interdisciplinary field"--
Author | : Paul Tory Rankin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 998 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Comprehension |
ISBN | : |