This article presents a phonetically de ned annotation system for German speech melody, whose descriptive units cover the perceptive relevant pitch movements. The units for the melodic annotation are based on the model for read German utterances [1]. The implementation of our descriptive melodic units as part of a recently developed labelling and testing environment for melodic aspects of speec...

This paper shows the results of the analysis of more than 60 hours of adult-infant (24-36-mounths-old) interaction, concerning presence, characterization and interplay of two varieties of play arising from interactive contexts: Pretend Play and Musical Play. It was observed that, in most of the cases, musical play takes place within contexts of pretend play. That means that infants can fluently...

This paper takes one step towards addressing the question of how activity mediated by shared representations — notations that are manipulated by more than one person — might constitute knowledge construction activity, and how the shared representations are appropriated for this purpose. The primary contribution of this paper is a methodology for qualitative analysis of activity in a workspace b...

This paper examines the characteristics of youth at-risk and the complexity and meanings found in educational-therapeutic discourse according to the existential approach of logotherapy. Possible directions for therapeutic work are suggested in line with the intersubjective approach. This paper is divided into four parts: Part 1 examines the characteristics of at-risk adolescents; Part 2 discuss...

Is it possible to say that there is no real self if we take a non-Cartesian view of the body? Is it possible to say that an organism can engage in pragmatic action and intersubjective interaction and that the self generated in such activity is not real? This depends on how we define the concept "real". By taking a close look at embodied action, and at Metzinger's concept of embodiment, I want t...

Harry Stack Sullivan proposed a developmental model of sentience, of “any...primary data of experience” (Sullivan, 1953, p. 28). This article uses theory and case study examples to explore Sullivan’s developmental model in two ways. First, the scope of applicability of the model is extended to everyday experience. Second, using Sullivan’s other developmental theories as analogy, extension of hi...