Descriptive vocabulary development for degraded speech

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dushyant Sharma ◽  
Gaston Hilkhuysen ◽  
Patrick A. Naylor ◽  
Nikolay D. Gaubitch ◽  
Mark Huckvale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vocabulary Development ◽  
Degraded Speech

Die Rolle des Gyrus Angularis bei der Verarbeitung von degraded speech

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Golombek ◽  
G Hartwigsen ◽  
J Obleser
Keyword(s):  
Degraded Speech

scholarly journals Do Bilinguals Acquire Similar Words to Monolinguals? An Examination of Word Acquisition and the Similarity Effect in Japanese–English Bilinguals’ Vocabularies

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-182
Author(s):  
Aya Kutsuki
Keyword(s):  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Vocabulary Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Word Category ◽  
Word Acquisition ◽  
English Bilingual ◽  
Similarity Effect ◽  
Japanese English

Previous research has paid much attention to the overall acquisition of vocabularies among bilingual children in comparison to their monolingual counterparts. Much less attention has been paid to the type of words acquired and the possible transfer or cross-linguistic effects of the other language on vocabulary development. Thus, this study aims to explore similarities and dissimilarities in the vocabularies of simultaneous bilinguals and Japanese monolinguals and considers the possible cross-linguistic similarity effect on word acquisition. Six simultaneous Japanese–English bilingual children (mean age = 34.75 months (2.56)) were language–age-matched with six Japanese monolinguals; their productive vocabularies were compared regarding size and categories. Additionally, characteristic acquired words were compared using correspondence analyses. Results showed that, although delayed due to the reduced inputs, young bilinguals have a similar set of vocabularies in terms of word category as monolinguals. However, bilingual children’s vocabularies reflect their unevenly distributed experience with the language. Fewer interactive experiences with language speakers may result in a lower acquisition of interactive words. Furthermore, there is a cross-linguistic effect on acquisition, likely caused by form similarity between Japanese katakana words and English words. Even between languages with great dissimilarities, resources and cues are sought and used to facilitate bilingual vocabulary acquisition.

Git4Voc: Collaborative Vocabulary Development Based on Git

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lavdim Halilaj ◽  
Irlán Grangel-González ◽  
Gökhan Coskun ◽  
Steffen Lohmann ◽  
Sören Auer
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Data Integration ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Vocabulary Development ◽  
Version Control ◽  
Version Control System

Collaborative vocabulary development in the context of data integration is the process of finding consensus between experts with different backgrounds, system understanding and domain knowledge. The complexity of this process increases with the number of people involved, the variety of the systems to be integrated and the dynamics of their domain. In this paper, we advocate that the usage of a powerful version control system is one of the keys to address this problem. Driven by this idea and the success of the version control system Git in the context of software development, we investigate the applicability of Git for collaborative vocabulary development. Even though vocabulary development and software development have much more similarities than differences, there are still important challenges. These need to be considered in the development of a successful versioning and collaboration system for vocabulary development. Therefore, this paper starts by presenting the challenges we are faced with during the collaborative creation of vocabularies and discusses its distinction to software development. Drawing from these findings, we present Git4Voc which comprises guidelines on how Git can be adopted to vocabulary development. Finally, we demonstrate how Git hooks can be implemented to go beyond the plain functionality of Git by realizing vocabulary-specific features like syntactic validation and semantic diffs.

Early vocabulary development: Relationships with prelinguistic skills and early social-emotional/behavioral problems and competencies

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 101525
Author(s):  
Katariina Rantalainen ◽  
Leila Paavola-Ruotsalainen ◽  
Jaana Alakortes ◽  
Alice S. Carter ◽  
Hanna E. Ebeling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Vocabulary Development ◽  
Social Emotional

scholarly journals What You Do Versus Who You Are: Home-Learning Activities, Social Origin and Cognitive Skills among Young Children in Ireland

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 610-625
Author(s):  
Patricia McMullin ◽  
Frances McGinnity ◽  
Aisling Murray ◽  
Helen Russell
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Vocabulary Development ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Birth Cohort Study ◽  
Social Origin ◽  
Home Learning

Abstract This article explores the role that home-learning activities (HLAs) play in the relationship between social origin and cognitive development using an Irish birth cohort study, Growing Up in Ireland. Numerous studies using different measures of the home-learning environment (HLE) have shown that it has considerable influence on young children’s cognitive development, and that the HLE is often linked to social origin. We find a social gradient in vocabulary even at age 3 years, with the largest gaps for mothers’ education. Family income, mothers’ education, and social class are also associated with vocabulary independently, though these associations are reduced by adding all three measures simultaneously. The extent of HLAs helps explain a very small part of the education differences and none of the income or social class differences in vocabulary. We find some evidence that HLAs may be more salient for children from families with low income and lower social class backgrounds in terms of supporting vocabulary development, thereby compensating somewhat for disadvantage. HLAs also appear to encourage vocabulary development between age 3 and 5, and play a role in reducing the gap in vocabulary between high- and low-income children.

Representation of Spectral and Temporal Envelope of Twitter Vocalizations in Common Marmoset Primary Auditory Cortex

2002 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 1723-1737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srikantan S. Nagarajan ◽  
Steven W. Cheung ◽  
Purvis Bedenbaugh ◽  
Ralph E. Beitel ◽  
Christoph E. Schreiner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cortical Neurons ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Primary Auditory Cortex ◽  
Common Marmoset ◽  
Spectral Envelope ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Temporal Envelope ◽  
Degraded Speech ◽  
Neurophysiological Data ◽  
Narrowband Channels

Cortical sensitivity in representations of behaviorally relevant complex input signals was examined in recordings from primary auditory cortical neurons (AI) in adult, barbiturate-anesthetized common marmoset monkeys ( Callithrix jacchus). We studied the robustness of distributed responses to natural and degraded forms of twitter calls, social contact vocalizations comprising several quasi-periodic phrases of frequency and AM. We recorded neuronal responses to a monkey's own twitter call (MOC), degraded forms of their twitter call, and sinusoidal amplitude modulated (SAM) tones with modulation rates similar to those of twitter calls. In spectral envelope degradation, calls with narrowband channels of varying bandwidths had the same temporal envelope as a natural call. However, the carrier phase was randomized within each narrowband channel. In temporal envelope degradation, the temporal envelope within narrowband channels was filtered while the carrier frequencies and phases remained unchanged. In a third form of degradation, noise was added to the natural calls. Spatiotemporal discharge patterns in AI both within and across frequency bands encoded spectrotemporal acoustic features in the call although the encoded response is an abstract version of the call. The average temporal response pattern in AI, however, was significantly correlated with the average temporal envelope for each phrase of a call. Response entrainment to MOC was significantly correlated with entrainment to SAM stimuli at comparable modulation frequencies. Sensitivity of the response patterns to MOC was substantially greater for temporal envelope than for spectral envelope degradations. The distributed responses in AI were robust to additive continuous noise at signal-to-noise ratios ≥10 dB. Neurophysiological data reflecting response sensitivity in AI to these forms of degradation closely parallel human psychophysical results on the intelligibility of degraded speech in quiet and noisy conditions.

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