Interactivity is an important concept in the study of online social processes. Two experiments tested how interactivity influenced people’s willingness to comment on media and their perceptions a company’s corporate responsibility (CSR) efforts. Across two operationalizations (presence/absence replies, high/low degree reference earlier messages), led greater perceived contingency, which more po...

BACKGROUND communicative functions used by language therapists and patients. AIM to analyze the communicative functions used by language therapists and patients of the autistic spectrum. METHOD the communicative functions expressed by six therapists in interaction with six patients each were analyzed, constituting 36 profiles of communicative functions expressed by the dyad therapist-patien...

Hsu and Bishop argue that the underlying deficit in SLI is impaired statistical/procedural learning (in particular, difficulties in learning non-adjacent dependencies). This prevents affected children from developing abstract syntactic representations which in turn leads to diminished productivity. However, grammatical productivity need not be based on abstract syntactic representations. Moreov...

This paper presents a new language-independent method for finding morphological links between newly appeared words (i.e. absent from reference word lists). Using the WWW as a corpus, the Webaffix tool detects the occurrences of new derived lexemes based on a given suffix, proposes a base lexeme following a standard scheme (such as noun-verb), and then performs a compatibility test on the word p...