922 research outputs found
Oral history interview with Ruth Straughn Spivey
No full textRuth Straughn Spivey is a 1945 graduate of Oklahoma A&M College, now Oklahoma State University (OSU), and was the first female to earn a degree in electrical engineering from the college. She discusses her time as a student during World War II and landing her first professional position at General Electric in New York. Spivey then takes us through her career, including her time as a civil servant working for military units. She also talks about opportunities and the support of her husband and shares her approach to being female in a historically male career.The STEM Areas and Women Collection is a series of interviews conducted with women who have work experience in the historically predominantly male fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
Marriage record of Spivey, Samuel M. and Spivey, Annie J.
No full textMarriage license for Samuel Spivey and Annie J. Spivey. C.E.W. Dobbs was the officiant
Dr. Ludd M. Spivey, President of Florida Southern College
No full textDr. Ludd M. Spivey, President of Florida Southern College from 1925 to 1957.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/robertson_and_fresh/1646/thumbnail.jp
Ninth Annual Barry D. Riccio Lecture - Satchel Paige and Black Baseball in the Rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement
No full textThe EIU History Department presents the Ninth Annual Barry D. Riccio Lecture.
Donald Spivey is the author of several books dealing with African-American history, sport, labor, music, and education. If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy Satchel Paige (University of Missouri Press, 2012) is his most recent book.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/his_barrydriccio/1000/thumbnail.jp
Language production: computational models
No full textDell GS, Cholin J. Language production: computational models. In: Spivey MJ, McRae K, Jonnaise M, eds. Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2012: 426-442
Carolyn Spivey with Jimmy Haynie on guitar
No full textThis 1951 photograph shows Carolyn Spivey performing on CBS WTOP in Washington, D. C. with Jimmy Haynie on guitar. Founder and director of the Mountain Youth Jamboree, Hubert H. Hayes (1901-1964) auditioned and directed youth to perform in folk dance, music, and folk and ballad singing. The jamboree was held in the Asheville City Auditorium (now known as Thomas Wolfe Auditorium) from 1948 to 1973, and Hayes’ wife, Leona Trantham Hayes (1913-1989) continued to direct the program after his death in 1964. Hubert Hayes was an author, playwright, and alumni of Duke University
Generalizable distributional regularities aid fluent language processing: The case of semantic valence tendencies
No full textSentence processing is an extraordinarily complex and speeded process, and yet proceeds, typically, in an effortless manner. What makes us so fluent in language? Incremental models of sentence processing propose that speakers continuously build expectations for upcoming linguistic material based on partial information available at each relevant time point. In addition, statistical analyses of corpora suggest that many words entail probabilistic semantic consequences. For instance, in English, the verb provide typically precedes positive words (eg,‘to provide work’) whereas cause typically precedes negative items (eg,‘to cause trouble’; Sinclair, 1996). We hypothesized that these statistical patterns form units of meaning that imbue lexical items, and their argument structures, with semantic valence tendencies (SVTs), and that such knowledge assists fluent on-line sentence comprehension by facilitating the predictability of upcoming information. First, a sentence completion task elicited such tendencies in adults, suggesting that speakers constrain their free productions to conform to the connotative meaning of words. Second, fluent on-line reading was slowed down significantly in sentences that contained a violation of a valence tendency (eg cause optimism). Third, an automated computer algorithm assessed the pervasiveness of valence tendencies in large computerized samples of English, supporting the hypothesis that valence tendencies are a distributional phenomenon. We conclude that not only can aspects of meaning be modeled with word cooccurrence statistics, but that such statistics are likely to be computed b
Trajectories emerging from discrete versus continuous processing models in phonological competitor tasks: A commentary on Spivey, Grosjean, and Knoblich
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77194.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)M. J. Spivey, M. Grosjean, and G. Knoblich showed that in a phonological competitor task, participants' mouse cursor movements showed more curvature toward the competitor item when the competitor and target were phonologically similar than when the competitor and target were phonologically dissimilar. Spivey et al. interpreted this result as evidence for continuous cascading of information during the processing of spoken words. Here we show that the results of Spivey et al.need not be ascribed to continuous speech processing. Instead, their results can be ascribed to discrete processing of speech, provided one appeals to an already supported model of motor control that asserts that switching movements from 1 target to another relies on superposition of the 2nd movement onto the 1st. The latter process is a continuous cascade, a fact that indirectly strengthens the plausibility of continuous cascade models. However, the fact that we can simulate the results of Spivey et al.with a continuous motor output model and a discrete perceptual model shows that the implications of Spivey et al.'s experiment are less clear than these authors supposed.7 p
An introduction to experimental methods for language researchers
No full textGonzalez-Marquez M, Becker R, Cutting J. An introduction to experimental methods for language researchers. In: Gonzalez-Marquez M, Mittelberg I, Coulson S, Spivey M, eds. Methods in cognitive linguistics. 2007: 53-86
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