Reconstruction of fragmentary sentences presented aurally
Edward L. Bradley · OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) · 1963
2 S p e a k e r s ............. 48 6. Sample Groups of Responses for Deleted Word which is Designated by an A s t e r i s k ............. 75 7. Percentages of Agreement of Error for Sentences with Deletions of W o r d s ..........................78 8. Percentages of Agreement of Error Responses for Sentences with Deletions of Constant Interval .82 viii CHAPTER I p aspects as their relative Intensities, the particular 2C.P. Sacla and C. J. Beck, "The Power of Funda mental Speech Sounds," Bell System Technical Journal, 5, 1 9 2 6 , pp. 3 9 3 -4 0 3 .frequencies which predominate In the different sounds,3 and 3j.c.Steinberg and N. R. French, "The Portrayal of Visible Speech, " Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 18, 194b, pp.4-ib.conditions which detract from the innate potentials of the sounds In transmission.Investigations have also been made i i regarding the native language of the speaker, the 4r .L. Mulder, "A Comparative Study of the Competence of International and Native Speakers in Aspects of Language that Hold Special Relevance to Speech" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Speech, Ilie Ohio State University, 1952).particular dialect of the speaker^*^ and the aspects of H. Abrams et a l ., Speech In Noise; A Stud Factors Determining Its Intelligibility.t)SRD Weporfc 4523* Psycho-AcouBtics Laboratory, Harvard University, 1944.