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CAPACITY AND DELAYED SPEECH
Author(s) -
SALTER DAVID
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1973.tb01342.x
Subject(s) - psychology , sentence , measure (data warehouse) , syntax , context (archaeology) , reading (process) , redundancy (engineering) , constant (computer programming) , speech recognition , sentence processing , cognitive psychology , linguistics , natural language processing , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , database , biology , programming language , operating system
The experiment tests a hypothesis based on limited capacity under conditions of normal and delayed auditory feedback. Three predictions are tested on reading material in which syntax and coherent meaning are introduced as separate constraints. The hypothesis predicts that the difference between normal and delayed speech rates will be inversely related to the redundancy of the material but that the ratio of delayed/normal readings will remain constant across the passages since this measure also takes account of reading speed. A third measure, based on a selective analysis of speech disturbances, also confirms a prediction that the likelihood of speech disturbances increase throughout a sentence unit. The effects of delayed feedback are briefly discussed within the context of two recent models of information processing.