Browsing by Subject "Psycholinguistics"
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The discourse value of social signals at topic change moments
(2015)The dynamics of social interactions during human-human conversation have attracted the attention of many researchers aiming at improving the naturalness of automatic dialogue systems and creating socially aware machines. ... -
Exploring the Role of Laughter in Multiparty Conversation
(ILLC, 2013)We report ongoing work on laughter in task based and social multiparty human conversation, outlining work to date on laughter around topic change, annotation procedures developed and current ... -
Linguistic Repetitions, Task-based Experience and A Proxy Measure of Mutual Understanding
(IEEE, 2017)The way dialogue partners collaborate to achieve a joint task is dependent on the way they construct a common ground of knowledge. Diverse conversational mechanisms are involved in developing a common ground, and repetition ... -
Practical challenges in polylexical metronome synchronisation: inadvertent conditioning of participant responses in two successive experiments on P-centre location
(2020)A metronome synchronisation paradigm was used to investigate possible interaction between P(erceptual)-centre location and initial mutation in Irish (Gaelic). A pilot study returned promising results in a subset of stimuli. ... -
The vocabulary richness of children's television in Ireland: A cross-generational comparison.
(2018)This research investigates whether the vocabulary richness of children’s programming has changed over one generation, and therefore compares the programmes offered in 1992 to those offered in 2017. Three hours of programming ...