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The Development and Implementation of A Data Repository for Swallow Studies
The purpose of this clinical note is to (a) describe the development of an open-source data repository of videofluoroscopic evaluations of swallow studies (VFSS) from individuals across the lifespan with vario...
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Open AccessUsing diagnostic feedback to enhance the development of phonetic knowledge of an L2: a CALL design based on the unified competition model and the implementation with the Pinyin Tutor
Second language acquisition (SLA) is complex and multidimensional. Using the framework of the unified competition model (UCM), the current study explores how robust learning and testing of Chinese Pinyin are f...
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Open AccessThe role of novelty stimuli in second language acquisition: evidence from the optimized training by the Pinyin Tutor at TalkBank
As hypothesized by the unified competition model (MacWhinney, 2007, 2017, 2021), optimizing training schemes can enhance second language (L2) learning by fostering various protective factors. Under such a fram...
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TalkBank Methods for Studying Spoken Discourse
This chapter examines the use of TalkBank methods for coding, analyzing, and interpreting discourse-level language data from adults with neurogenic language disorders. These methods have been used for language...
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The Competition Model: Past and Future
In the 1980s, Elizabeth Bates, Csaba Pléh, Brian MacWhinney, and colleagues formulated a functionalist, usage-based approach to language processing and learning they called the Competition Model. The model vie...
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Understanding spoken language through TalkBank
Ongoing advances in computer technology have opened up a deluge of new datasets for understanding human behavior (Goldstone & Lupyan, 2016). Many of these datasets provide information on the use of written langua...
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Parsing Hebrew CHILDES transcripts
We present a syntactic parser of (transcripts of) spoken Hebrew: a dependency parser of the Hebrew CHILDES database. CHILDES is a corpus of child–adult linguistic interactions. Its Hebrew section has recently ...
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Action and Language Mechanisms in the Brain: Data, Models and Neuroinformatics
We assess the challenges of studying action and language mechanisms in the brain, both singly and in relation to each other to provide a novel perspective on neuroinformatics, integrating the development of da...
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The Hebrew CHILDES corpus: transcription and morphological analysis
We present a corpus of transcribed spoken Hebrew that reflects spoken interactions between children and adults. The corpus is an integral part of the CHILDES database, which distributes similar corpora for ove...
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Phon: A Computational Basis for Phonological Database Building and Model Testing
This paper describes Phon, an open-source software program for the transcription, coding, and analysis of phonetically-transcribed speech corpora. Phon provides support for multimedia data linkage, utterance s...
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Formal Grammars of Early Language
We propose to model the development of language by a series of formal grammars, accounting for the linguistic capacity of children at the very early stages of mastering language. This approach provides a testb...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Optimally Selected Drill Practice to Train Basic Facts
How to best sequence instruction in a collection of basic facts is a problem often faced by intelligent tutoring systems. To solve this problem, the following work details two tests of a system to provide dril...
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Translation norms for English and Spanish: The role of lexical variables, word class, and L2 proficiency in negotiating translation ambiguity
We present a set of translation norms for 670 English and 760 Spanish nouns, verbs and class ambiguous items that varied in their lexical properties in both languages, collected from 80 bilingual participants....
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The Talkbank Project
Recent years have seen a phenomenal growth in computer power and connectivity. The computer on the desktop of the average academic researcher now has the power of room-size supercomputers of the 1980s. Using t...
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Automatic parsing of parental verbal input
To evaluate theoretical proposals regarding the course of child language acquisition, researchers often need to rely on the processing of large numbers of syntacticallyparsed utterances, both from children and...
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PatPho: A phonological pattern generator for neural networks
Much of the power of neural network modeling for language use and acquisition derives from a reliance on statistical regularities implicit in the phonological properties of words. Researchers have devised seve...
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STEP—A System for Teaching Experimental Psychology using E-Prime
Students in psychology need to learn to design and analyze their own experiments. However, software that allows students to build experiments on their own has been limited in a variety of ways. The ship** of...
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PsyScope: An interactive graphic system for designing and controlling experiments in the psychology laboratory using Macintosh computers
PsyScope is an integrated environment for designing and running psychology experiments on Macintosh computers. The primary goal of PsyScope is to give both psychology students and trained researchers a tool th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Competition Model and Foreign Language Acquisition
This article explores the application of the Competition Model [23] as an account of foreign language acquisition. The model is discussed in terms of the constructs of cue validity, cue cost, and form-function...
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A Functionalist Approach to Language and Its Implications for Assessment and Intervention
There is a constant tension in the field of speech-language pathology between researchers who are wedded to the use of carefully controlled and designed conditions for the study of language and clinicians who ...
