Different sentence types are cued by various intonation patterns in English. Statements are uttered with a falling pitch while questions are cued by a raising pitch over the whole utterance. The intonation of questions in Cantonese, however, is signalled by a rising pitch at the second half of the last syllable. The current study investigates the intonation of statements and questions in Hong K...

The current study surveyed major studies on the characteristics of motivating factors for knowledge workers, both in the USA and in China. Comparisons were made between studies in the two countries, and new perspectives were offered on the motivating factors for knowledge workers. Future research directions were proposed.

The current study investigates the hypothesis that certain Cypriot Greek (CG) whphrases show similar paths of acquisition with cleft sentences based on syntactic complexity. That is, wh-phrases of the inda (mbu)-type in CG can be decomposed in an abstract way as clefts, giving ine ti pu ‘what is it that’. Targeting a comparison between these two structures, wh-questions with inda (mbu) along wi...

Higher-order relations are important for various cognitive tasks, such as analogical transfer. The current study tested people’s ability to learn new relational categories, using a learning test of pure higher-order relations. Each stimulus consisted of 4 objects varying on 3 dimensions. Each category was defined by three binary relations between pairs of objects, producing six logically differ...

The current low-income housing system in China is the security system giving priority to the low-rent housing and the economically affordable housing. The housing security system includes the systems and measures that the government uses the national and social power to provide the basic housing for those difficult housing groups by the transfer payment policy, and realize the equalization of t...

Phonetic convergence is highly variable across studies, measures, and analyses. The current paper describes a study that examined multiple acoustic measures in concert with a perceptual measure of phonetic convergence. The study employed a shadowing task in which multiple talkers shadowed words from a set of models. Across different scales of analysis, the acoustic measures were highly variable...

This paper is an edited version of the International Game Developers Association’s Game Preservation Special Interest Group’s recent white paper. The specific threats to preserving digital games are outlined, as is the importance of games as cultural objects. The current strategies for preservation across a range of stakeholders are presented followed by an argument for why preservation matters...