Consonants in word onsets are more often than other consonants involved in interactional speech errors [8] [9]. This has been explained from the process of speech preparation [9] or from the higher degree of activation of initial versus other consonants [2], or from phonotactic constraints on speech errors [6]. Here we report a tongue-twister experiment showing (a) that words in each other’s im...

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This study examines a popular Lithuanian iTV SMS program, Telejazz, which broadcasts music and personal ads posted by viewers to the program in the form of text messages. The contents of the televised SMS ads are compared with previous research on personal ads in print media. Despite the novelty and the technical constraints of the convergent iTV SMS medium, content analysis of the personal ads...

A serious game for learning the social skills required for effective police interviewing is a challenging idea. Building artificial conversational characters that play the role of a suspect in a police interrogation game requires computational models of police interviews as well as of the internal psychological mechanisms that determine the behaviour of suspects in this special type of dialogue...


 Este artigo analisa textos escritos por 42 professoras em contextos de graduac?a?o, po?s-graduac?a?o e extensa?o, com o objetivo identificar concepc?o?es qualidade da/na educac?a?o presentes suas narrativas, produzidas Portugal no Brasil. Confrontamos as narrativas dominantes a discussa?o do conceito associado processos transformac?a?o individual coletiva que visam ao desenvolvimento pra...

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Metadiscourse is a widely used term in current discourse analysis and language education, referring to an interesting, and relatively new approach to conceptualizing interaction between text producers and their texts and between text producers and users. Despite the growing importance of the term, however, it is often understood in different ways and used to refer to different aspects of langua...

The aim of this study is to examine the ways in which individuals’perceptions of media use are inji’uenced by others. Traditional theories of media use have proposed that perceptions of media use are shaped by individuals’ demographic characteristics and the media’s characteristics. However, three recent theories--cn’tical mass theory, social inf7uence model of media use, and adaptive structura...