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Nika Jurov – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Speech is a complex, redundant and variable signal happening in a noisy and ever changing world. How do listeners navigate these complex auditory scenes and continuously and effortlessly understand most of the speakers around them? Studies show that listeners can quickly adapt to new situations, accents and even to distorted speech. Although prior…
Descriptors: Models, Auditory Perception, Speech Communication, Cognitive Processes
Omar Carrasco – ProQuest LLC, 2023
When individuals read a narrative text, they construct a mental representation known as a situational model to comprehend the unfolding story. These models require updates at meaningful changes in the story to reflect current information accurately. Existing research highlights the attentional and working memory demands of these updating…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Story Reading, Attention, Short Term Memory
Poll, Gerard H. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Sentence imitation effectively discriminates between adults with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Little is known, however, about the factors that result in performance differences. This study evaluated the effects of working memory, processing speed, and argument status on sentence imitation. Working memory was measured by both a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Imitation, Adults, Language Impairments
Kim, Yongtaek – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation investigates constructional alternation among the English verb- "at," verb- 'away-at," and verb- "away" constructions. The primary purpose is to lay a fundamental conceptual framework on the interrelation between how we perceive a "situation" in an "external" world and how we construe it as an "event structure" in a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, English, Models
Rusinko, Judith E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Multisensory Structured Language Instruction has been used for decades by clinicians and practitioners as an intervention for teaching students with dyslexia. Multisensory Structured Language Instruction uses the integration of multiple senses (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile) simultaneously to teach literacy. Although the anecdotal…
Descriptors: Models, Literacy Education, Multisensory Learning, Teaching Methods
Cristia, Alejandrina – ProQuest LLC, 2009
To what extent does language acquisition recruit domain-general processing mechanisms? In this dissertation, evidence concerning this question is garnered from the study of individual differences in infant speech perception and their predictive value with respect to language development in early childhood. In the first experiment, variation in the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Infants, Acoustics, Caregivers