Phonological regularity, perceptual biases, and the role of phonotactics in speech error analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. e1466 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Alderete ◽  
Paul Tupper
Keyword(s):  
Error Analysis ◽  
Speech Error

The Role of Resolution and Sample Preparation in Hydration Rim Measurement: Implications for Experimentally Determined Hydration Rates

1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry E. Scheetz ◽  
Christopher M. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Activation Energy ◽  
Sample Preparation ◽  
Error Analysis ◽  
Single Step ◽  
Theoretical Limit

The role of the theoretical limit of resolution of optical microscopes is discussed in relation to obsidian rim age-date determinations. The resolution of the optics is shown to contribute an error of ± 20 percent. The error analysis identified the determination of the activation energy as the single step in the dating process that introduces the largest error.

scholarly journals The role of consolidation in learning context-dependent phonotactic patterns in speech and digital sequence production

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (14) ◽  
pp. 3617-3622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel D. Anderson ◽  
Gary S. Dell
Keyword(s):  
Second Order ◽  
Speech Errors ◽  
Experimental Session ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Speech Error ◽  
First Order ◽  
Sequence Production ◽  
Syllable Onset ◽  
Single Experimental Session

Speakers implicitly learn novel phonotactic patterns by producing strings of syllables. The learning is revealed in their speech errors. First-order patterns, such as “/f/ must be a syllable onset,” can be distinguished from contingent, or second-order, patterns, such as “/f/ must be an onset if the vowel is /a/, but a coda if the vowel is /o/.” A metaanalysis of 19 experiments clearly demonstrated that first-order patterns affect speech errors to a very great extent in a single experimental session, but second-order vowel-contingent patterns only affect errors on the second day of testing, suggesting the need for a consolidation period. Two experiments tested an analogue to these studies involving sequences of button pushes, with fingers as “consonants” and thumbs as “vowels.” The button-push errors revealed two of the key speech-error findings: first-order patterns are learned quickly, but second-order thumb-contingent patterns are only strongly revealed in the errors on the second day of testing. The influence of computational complexity on the implicit learning of phonotactic patterns in speech production may be a general feature of sequence production.

scholarly journals The role of language production mechanisms in children's sentence repetition: Evidence from an inflectionally rich language

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
SONALI NAG ◽  
MARGARET J. SNOWLING ◽  
JELENA MIRKOVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Developmental Disorders ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Sentence Length ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
Speech Error ◽  
Sentence Repetition ◽  
Error Analyses ◽  
Production Mechanisms

ABSTRACTWe examine the role of language production mechanisms in sentence repetition, a task widely used as a diagnostic tool in developmental disorders. We investigate sentence repetition in 5- to 8-year-old native speakers of Kannada, an inflectionally rich language of India. The inflectional characteristics of the language make it an ideal testing ground for exploring the engagement of grammatical and phonological encoding processes. We presented active, passive, and embedded sentences and, in a subset of the material, we also manipulated sentence length. Using accuracy and speech error analyses at the sentence, word, and affix levels, we provide evidence that individual differences in task performance are influenced by the linguistic properties of the material. These findings clarify the role of key language production mechanisms involved in sentence repetition. We propose that it is the versatility to develop a profile across several language production mechanisms that makes sentence repetition particularly useful as a clinical tool.

Speculation and Negation: Rules, Rankers, and the Role of Syntax

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Velldal ◽  
Lilja Øvrelid ◽  
Jonathon Read ◽  
Stephan Oepen
Keyword(s):  
Error Analysis ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Ranking Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
Shared Task ◽  
Initial Design ◽  
Dependency Structures

This article explores a combination of deep and shallow approaches to the problem of resolving the scope of speculation and negation within a sentence, specifically in the domain of biomedical research literature. The first part of the article focuses on speculation. After first showing how speculation cues can be accurately identified using a very simple classifier informed only by local lexical context, we go on to explore two different syntactic approaches to resolving the in-sentence scopes of these cues. Whereas one uses manually crafted rules operating over dependency structures, the other automatically learns a discriminative ranking function over nodes in constituent trees. We provide an in-depth error analysis and discussion of various linguistic properties characterizing the problem, and show that although both approaches perform well in isolation, even better results can be obtained by combining them, yielding the best published results to date on the CoNLL-2010 Shared Task data. The last part of the article describes how our speculation system is ported to also resolve the scope of negation. With only modest modifications to the initial design, the system obtains state-of-the-art results on this task also.

The Role of the Discrete Fourier Transform in the Contribution to Gear Transmission Error Spectra from Tooth-Spacing Errors

1987 ◽  
Vol 201 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
W D Mark
Keyword(s):  
Fourier Transform ◽  
Fourier Series ◽  
Error Analysis ◽  
Discrete Fourier Transform ◽  
Transmission Error ◽  
Spur Gear ◽  
Contact Ratio ◽  
Elastic Deformations ◽  
Exact Agreement

An expression is derived for the Fourier series spectrum of the transmission error arising from tooth-spacing errors on a single spur gear meshing with a perfect involute mating gear for the case of a contact ratio of unity and no elastic deformations present. This expression is found to be in exact agreement with previously derived results. The expression illustrates the role of the discrete Fourier transform in transmission error analysis and interpretation.

scholarly journals Role of phase key in the double random phase encoding technique: an error analysis

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (21) ◽  
pp. 3808 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Monaghan ◽  
Guohai Situ ◽  
Unnikrishnan Gopinathan ◽  
Thomas J. Naughton ◽  
John T. Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Error Analysis ◽  
Random Phase ◽  
Phase Encoding ◽  
Double Random Phase Encoding ◽  
Random Phase Encoding

scholarly journals Role of L1 in L2 Acquisition According to Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis and Error Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-72
Author(s):  
Mai Thi Phuong Thao
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Error Analysis ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Transfer ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
L2 Acquisition

In the changed context of a globalized world where English language continues to grow as a second or third language in many parts of the world, acquiring two primary languages simultaneously gains an increasing popularity. In this case, reviewing the influence of L1 on second language acquisition, i.e. language transfer, is of great importance. Though the theory of language transfer has experienced a long time of ups and downs since 1940s, up to now, it is still a central issue in applied linguistic, second language acquisition and language learning. Much of the history of this central concept has been tied in with the varying theoretical perspectives on SLA. The acceptance and/or rejection of language transfer as a viable concept has been related to the acceptance or rejection of the specific theory with which it has been associated. The article aims to compare and contrast views of the role of L1 in L2 acquisition according to Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis and Error Analysis approaches to reinvestigate how the views of L1's contributions to SLA changed in the early approaches.

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