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Drager, Kathryn D. R.; Reichle, Joe E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2001
This study investigated whether discourse context affected the intelligibility of synthesized sentences for young adult and older adult listeners. Findings indicated a significant facilitating effect of context wherein previous words and sentences are related to later sentences for both listener groups. Results have direct implications for…
Descriptors: Adults, Artificial Speech, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Communication Disorders