A study by a pair of University of Chicago psychologists has found that speakers systematically overestimate their ability to convey what they mean, even when they know that what they say is ambiguous ...
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Most people seriously overestimate their ability to communicate effectively, even when dealing with information they know to be ambiguous, say Chicago psychologists Boaz Keysar and Anne Henly. In a ...
Abstract: This study examines how Chinese EFL learners integrate prosodic and syntactic cues when processing temporarily ambiguous subject-object sentences. Two self-paced reading experiments ...
We’re living through an era of accelerated change, and leaders feel it every day. In five years, we’ve experienced the impacts of Covid and how it rebooted the norms we took for granted in how we work ...
A Taiwanese fighter jet flies on the flank of a Chinese bomber as it passes near Taiwan, Feb. 10, 2020 (Republic of China Ministry of National Defense via AP). The potential for military conflict ...
ABSTRACT: The aims of this study were two-fold:first, to investigate the effect of a heterophonic homographic initial of a sentence (HP-HG) on the reading process of beginning Arabic readers as they ...
Conversation isn’t taught in school the way writing and public speaking are, so we have to pick it up on our own—which is one reason there’s such wide variation in how satisfying our conversations are ...
Conversation isn’t taught in school the way writing and public speaking are, so we have to pick it up on our own—which is one reason there’s such wide variation in how satisfying our conversations are ...