The effects of speech rate and sentence length on the recall of synthetic speech for meaningful and anomalous sentences | Posted on:1993-11-01 | Degree:M.S | Type:Thesis | University:California State University, Long Beach | Candidate:Pennella, Ralph N., III | Full Text:PDF | GTID:2478390014997588 | Subject:Occupational psychology | Abstract/Summary: | | Recall of synthetic speech was evaluated for reduced speech rate, increased sentence length, and sentence context. Sixteen subjects were presented two types of synthetically produced sentences--semantically meaningful and semantically anomalous--at pause duration levels of 0 and 595 msec and at three sentence lengths (5, 7, and 9 key words), and were asked to recall the key words of the sentences.;Recall increased for meaningful and anomalous sentences as pause duration increased. There was a significant interaction between sentence length and sentence type: as sentence length increased, recall of meaningful sentences decreased at a faster rate than anomalous sentences. Contrary to prediction, there was no interaction between sentence length and pause duration. A greater percentage of words was recalled for meaningful sentences than for anomalous sentences.;Increases in pause duration may provide additional processing time to aid in the encoding of words in short-term memory. Also, longer sentences place more demands on short-term memory. | Keywords/Search Tags: | Sentence, Recall, Speech, Rate, Meaningful, Pause duration, Words, Increased | | Related items |
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