Syntactic complexity suitable for listening
Y. Sagawa, E. Yamashita, Noboru Sugie · 2002
With the growth of multi-modal interfaces, the chance of listening to text, not reading, is increasing. In listening, it seems difficult to understand complex sentences. The authors present the results of a psychological experiment to investigate how syntactic complexity of a text affects its comprehensibility when a human listens to it. From the result, we conclude that systematically paraphrased text is easier to understand than an original text written for reading.