However, both groups showed better ability to express their meanings when words were read in semantically rich sentences than when read in isolation.
Archy has a deep voice, his long, rich sentences studded with playground patois – sick as an adjective, vulture as a verb.
The APD2 database consists of 150 h of read phonetically rich sentences, web texts, newspaper articles, short phrases, and spelled items, recorded in conference rooms using table and close-talk headset microphones [2].
Whereas the recogniser for Swedish, English and Flemish, was trained exclusively on the phonetically rich sentences, the full training set, also containing isolated words, digits, and spellings, was used to train the German models.
More recent examples of the long, detail-rich sentence can be found in Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe trilogy, each volume of which takes place over a holiday weekend.
Jin et al. (2009) propose another method for generating gene summaries from MEDLINE abstracts based on selection of information-rich sentences followed by inter-sentential redundancy removal.
In keeping with Mr. Yanes's left-wing agenda, the rich are sentenced to the most humiliating punishment (the famous are forced to live as nobodies, the corporate titans as illegal aliens).
And at moments when a lot of American prose seems fizzy and over-rich, the sentences in "I Curse the River of Time" go down like an eye-watering shot of aquavit.
(The English translation is by Christine Barslund, with Mr. Petterson's help, and seems pitch-perfect, except for a persistent misuse of "like" for "as," which injects a slangier note than seems appropriate). And at moments when a lot of American prose seems fizzy and over-rich, the sentences in "I Curse the River of Time" go down like an eye-watering shot of aquavit.
This rich palate of sentence content effects on brain responses may prove useful for the evaluation of neural plasticity of language networks in brain-damaged individuals.
