PURPOSE To compare the occurrence of speech disfluencies during narrative production in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their age-matched peers. METHODS The study included 60 children aged between 7 and 10 years, 40 with typical language development and 20 with SLI. For data collection, a series of 15 stories was used, each one represented by pictures composed of four sce...

Interjection is a word used to express feelings or something spontaneously. In Indonesian there are many interjection words, but here what will be discussed an HA! which can in various spontaneous expressions. Not only that, have similarities and differences with interjections other languages. This study aims find the meaning of Ha! film "The sinking Van Der Wijck ship" work by famous writer fr...

The suicide rate in the United States rises consistently with age. Silent suicide is defined as the intention, often masked, to kill oneself by nonviolent means through self-stanration or noncompliance with essential medical treatment. Silent suicide frequently goes unrecognized because of undiagnosed depression and the interjection of the personal belief systems of health-care providers and fa...

This paper describes a study of speaking-style characteristics, or “tone-of-voice”, in conversational speech, and shows that non-verbal information is transmitted efficiently regardless of cultural and linguistic contexts through differences in prosodic and voice-quality features. We asked Korean and American listeners with no previous kowledge of Japanese to judge the meaning of various uttera...

In Sanskrit, avyaya i.e., the indeclinable, plays an important role in the construction of a sentence and can be used as preposition, interjection, particle, conjunction or an adverb. To understand a given sentence, a thorough cognizance of the avyaya is necessary. This paper briefly describes the avyayas, types of avyayas and role of avyayas. An avyaya analysis tool (avyaya Morphological Analy...

In this paper we report on our research on the contextual meaning and prosody of three interjections ey, wa, and oh. A detailed qualitative-contextual analysis of our corpus shows that these interjections share important contextual and prosodic characteristics due to their similar functional status with respect to new or unexpected information. We show that there are also significant difference...