scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Topic

Head (linguistics)

About: Head (linguistics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2540 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29023 citations. The topic is also known as: nucleus.


Papers
More filters
Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the mechanisms of syntactic processing in the production of head-initial and head-final languages, and considers three factors that have been hypothesized to influence syntactic choice in language production – the conceptual accessibility of nouns, structural priming and the length of noun phrases.
Abstract: While there have been many investigations of the comprehension of head-final languages, there have been fewer studies of how they are produced. In this chapter, we discuss the mechanisms of syntactic processing in the production of head-initial and head-final languages. In particular, we consider three factors that have been hypothesized to influence syntactic choice in language production – the conceptual accessibility of nouns, structural priming and the length of noun phrases and examine how these phenomena influence syntactic processing in head-initial and head-final languages. We then discuss the extent to which syntactic processing might involve the same mechanisms in head-initial and head-final language production.

10 citations

01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: The Thinking-Talking Head is described, an interdisciplinary project that sits between and draws upon engineering/computer science and behavioural/cognitive science; research and performance; implementation and evaluation; and how these head functions will be tuned and evaluated using various paradigms, including an imitation paradigm.
Abstract: This paper describes the Thinking-Talking Head; an interdisciplinary project that sits between and draws upon engineering/computer science and behavioural/cognitive science; research and performance; implementation and evaluation. The project involves collaboration between computer scientists, engineers, language technologists and cognitive scientists, and its aim is twofold (a) to create a 3-D computer animation of a human head that will interact in real time with human agents, and (b) to serve as a research platform to drive research in the contributing disciplines, and in talking head research in general. The thinkingtalking head will emulate elements of face-to-face conversation through speech (including intonation), gaze and gesture. So it must have an active sensorium that accurately reflects the properties of its immediate environment, and must be able to generate appropriate communicative signals to feedback to the interlocutor. Here we describe the current implementation and outline how we are tackling issues concerning both the outputs (synthetic voice, visual speech, facial expressiveness and naturalness) from and inputs (auditory-visual speech recognition, emotion recognition, auditory-visual speaker localization) to the head. We describe how these head functions will be tuned and evaluated using various paradigms, including an imitation paradigm.

10 citations

Patent
08 Apr 2015
TL;DR: In this article, a method and a device for determining head gestures is presented. But the method for determining the head gestures includes the steps: responding to a head gesture of a human body to obtain brain electrical detection information of the human body; determining the heads gestures corresponding to the brain electrical information.
Abstract: The invention discloses a method and a device for determining head gestures. The method for determining the head gestures includes the steps: responding to a head gesture of a human body to obtain brain electrical detection information of the human body; determining the head gestures corresponding to the brain electrical detection information. The invention provides a novel head gesture identification scheme, and head gesture identification accuracy is high.

10 citations


Performance
Metrics
No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20222
202168
202090
201986
201890
201790