The focus of this study is interaction during speech and language intervention in children with phonological impairment. Interactional patterns between children and therapists in two different settings are compared; on the one hand ‘tabletop’ phonological intervention and, on the other hand, computer-assisted phonological intervention. The interactions are compared in terms of interactional dom...

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...

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...