Real-time expectations based on context speech rate can cause words to appear or disappear

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1374-1379

  Brown, Meredith ^a   Dilley, Laura C ^b   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

expectations; prosody; speech processing; Speech rate; visual world paradigm

Indexed keywords

MODELING LANGUAGES; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EXPECTATION; FORWARD MODELING; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; NOUN PHRASE; PROSODY; REAL- TIME; SPEECH RATES; SPOKEN LANGUAGE PROCESSING; VISUAL WORLD; VISUAL WORLD PARADIGM;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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