This study attempted to identify the acoustic deviations in the speech of Spanish-accented speakers of English and their influence on the native perception of accentedness. Recordings of eight multisyllabic target words spoken in sentences by 22 Spanish speakers of English and five native speakers of American English were analyzed for temporal acoustic differences. Acoustic deviations in Spanis...

Let me first consider the term “accident”. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that it comes from the Latin word “accidens” and the French verb “accidere” both meaning to fall towards. The Dictionary provides two basic descriptions of the word. The first is that it is an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally. The second description is that it is an event that happen...

In today’s world where the former colonized are reshaping their relation with the colonizer, the concept of decolonizing or indigenizing education is widely discussed in postcolonial studies. Decolonizing/indigenizing education counters the western systems of knowledge’s hegemony over those of non-western systems of thought and requires the development of a new approach to education that keeps ...

Dressings key words Georgina Casey RGN, BSc, PGDipSci, DipTeach (tertiary) is a Nurse Consultant based in Bristol. Georgina Casey explains the physiological events in wound healing in children, the rationale for dressing selection and the importance of taking a holistic approach to wound management. This article was first published in Paediatric Nursing (1999) 11, 5, 39-44. Readers who successf...

A potential determinant of people’s selective attention is offered by the structural-alignment view of comparison. This view holds that objects are compared via structured representations that align sets of features that share relational roles. A central claim of this account is that the comparison process directs attention towards alignable features. This prediction has been supported by offli...

In Germany, international and national comparative studies such as PISA or IGLU have shown that some 20% of school children do not reach the minimal competence level as defined by PISA literacy stages by the age of 15. Such a large number of students can no longer be supported by a single teacher in a classroom. The proposed submission demonstrates a web application that allows non-experts to i...

This document presents _Annota " tėd Ėnglish^, a system of diacritical symbols which turns English pronunciation into a precise and unambiguous process. The annotations are defined and located in such a way that the original English text is not altered (not even a letter), thus allowing for a consistent reading and learning of the English language with and without annotations. The annotations a...

* Presented at February 1963 Meeting of District V of The American Academy of Pediatrics. ** Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, University of Michigan Medical School. THE American I ~ediatriczan today, while entirely capable of taking care of the majority of his child patients himself, has available consultants to whom he can refer those special cases for w...

A large part of research conducted on privacy concern and protection on social networking sites (SNSs) concentrates on children and adolescents. Individuals in these developmental stages are often described as vulnerable Internet users. But how vulnerable are adults in terms of online informational privacy? This study applied a privacy boundary management approach and investigated Facebook use,...

Background:There have been relatively few studies concernedwith the treatment of spelling deficits. Among these, there have been a small number that have targeted specific components of the spelling process. Although most of these studies report success using treatments that involve repeated spelling and/or copy, the results have been mixed, especially as concerns the generalisation of treatmen...