The present study investigates turn-initial words in spoken interactions by using principal component analysis. The choice of turn initiators differs significantly in different settings. In formal settings like White House press conferences, the first person pronouns I and we are characteristically employe...
initial - the first letter of a word (especially a person's name); "he refused to put the initials FRS after his name" alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" Verb...
Segmenting Liaison-Initial Words: The role of predictive dependencies. Listeners use several cues to segment speech into words. However, it is unclear how these cues work together. This study examines the relative weight of di... A Tremblay,E Spinelli - 《Language & Cognitive Processes》 被引量...
grit one’s teethTo steel one-self to do what has to be done, to ready one-self for an unpleasant task or experience; to clench or grind one’s teeth in anger or determination; alsoto set one’s teeth. This expression, which dates from the late 18th century, is an allusion to the...
Slang and swearing, on the other hand, were identified as characterizing the speech of young males, who tended to use these words less as they approached adulthood.Mugaddam, Abdelrahim HamidReligación: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades...
Mark with one's initials. Hyphenation in•i•tial Part of Speech (形) adjective, (名) noun, (动) verb Matching Results 最初 zuìchū first; primary; initial; original; at first; initially; originally 开始 kāishǐ to begin; beginning; to start; initial 头文字 tóu wénzì initial;...
These findings support Werner and Kaplan's hypothesis and provide the first experimental evidence for the theoretical and observational assumptions that early words are not easily classified into parts of speech only by their vocables (e.g., nouns, verbs). We discuss the flexibility of vocable-...
Within the first year of life, infants learn to segment words from fluent speech. Previous research has shown that infants at 0;7·5 can segment consonant-initial words, yet the ability to segment vowel-initial words does not emerge until the age of 1;1–1;4 (0;11 in some restricted ...
Listeners use several cues to segment speech into words. However, it is unclear how these cues work together. This study examines the relative weight of distributional and (natural) acoustic–phonetic cues in French listeners' recognition of temporarily ambiguous vowel-initial words in liaison ...
The facilitation produced by the visual prime was significant for low-frequency words but not for high-frequency words, indicating that the locus of the effect is not prelexical. This suggests that visual speech mostly contributes to the word recognition process when lexical access is difficult....