• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.9-16
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• 1999

Generally, a speaker structures utterances very clearly by grouping words into phrases. This facilitates the listener's recovery of the meaning of the utterance and the speaker's intention. To this purpose, a speaker uses, among other things, prosodic information such as intonation pause, duration, intensity, etc. The research described here is concerned with the relationship between the strength of prosodic boundaries in spoken utterances as perceived by untrained listeners(Perceptual boundary strength, PBS)-In this paper, the preceptual boundary strength is used as the same meaning of the prosodic boundary strength-and prosodic information. We made a rule determinating the prosodic boundaries and verified the usefulness of the prosodic phrase as a recognition unit. Experiments results showed that the performance of speech recognition(SR) is improved in aspect of recognition rate and time compared with that using sentences as recognition unit. In the future we will suggest the methods that estimate more appropriate boundaries and study more various methods of prosody assisted SR.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.41-47
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• 2001

Palmer and Rock (1994) proposed that a connected region of uniform visual properties (uniform connectedness) strongly tends to be organized as a single perceptual unit To test this hypothesis using briefly presented forms three experiments were executed. In Experiment 1 and 2 participants were asked to report the identity of a post-cued target. and there was no difference between connected and disconnected displays. In Experiment 3 participants were asked to report the predesignated name of each whole display and the accuracy rate was higher in the connected displays than in the disconnected ones. However negative repetition effects were observed consistently in all the experiments. This indicates uniform connectedness does not have a strong effect in perceiving briefly presented forms.