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  2. Speech act - Wikipedia

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    An example of this could be if someone uttered the sentence "I'm hungry." The perlocutionary effect on the listener could be the effect of being persuaded by the utterance. For example, after hearing the utterance, the listener could be persuaded to make a sandwich for the speaker.

  3. Attenuation theory - Wikipedia

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    Selective attention theories are aimed at explaining why and how individuals tend to process only certain parts of the world surrounding them, while ignoring others. Given that sensory information is constantly besieging us from the five sensory modalities, it was of interest to not only pinpoint where selection of attention took place, but also explain how people prioritize and process ...

  4. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Contrastive stress is another everyday English example of phrasal prosody that helps us determine what parts of the sentence are important. Take these sentences for example: A man went up the STAIRS; Emphasizing that the STAIRS is how the man went up. A MAN went up the stairs; Emphasizing that it was a MAN who went up the stairs. [37]

  5. Monroe's motivated sequence - Wikipedia

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    Monroe's motivated sequence is a technique for organizing persuasion that inspires people to take action. Alan H. Monroe developed this sequence in the mid-1930s. [1] This sequence is unique because it strategically places these strategies to arouse the audience's attention and motivate them toward a specific goal or action.

  6. Attention (machine learning) - Wikipedia

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    When QKV attention is used as a building block for an autoregressive decoder, and when at training time all input and output matrices have rows, a masked attention variant is used: (,,) = (+) where the mask, is a strictly upper triangular matrix, with zeros on and below the diagonal and in every element above the diagonal.

  7. Attention - Wikipedia

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    Attention is best described as the sustained focus of cognitive resources on information while filtering or ignoring extraneous information. Attention is a very basic function that often is a precursor to all other neurological/cognitive functions. As is frequently the case, clinical models of attention differ from investigation models.

  8. Sentence processing - Wikipedia

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    A modular view of sentence processing assumes that each factor involved in sentence processing is computed in its own module, which has limited means of communication with the other modules. For example, syntactic analysis creation takes place without input from semantic analysis or context-dependent information, which are processed separately.

  9. Sentence word - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese, a holophrastic or single-word sentence is meant to carry the least amount of information as syntactically possible, while intonation becomes the primary carrier of meaning. [16] For example, a person saying the Japanese word e.g. "はい" (/haɪ/) = 'yes' on a high level pitch would command attention.