The present study compares prosodic features of child-directed speech (CDS) and foreigner-directed speech (FDS), to examine whether FDS is a derivative of CDS as suggested in sociolinguistic studies. Twelve female speakers completed a simple referential communication task addressed to an imaginary adult, an imaginary foreigner, and an imaginary child. The results showed that, compared to the ad...

This paper examines the effect of partial imaginary precursor cancelling on the performance of a system which uses a DFE and employs a one dimensional modulation. As opposed to QAM, BPSK or GMSK (after proper manipulations) require minimization of the mean square (MS) of the error real part only. Therefore, a lower MSE is achieved if the DFE coefficients are computed taking this fact into accou...

In the 1990s, much discourse both in and about global civil society was beset by a false opposition. On the one side was the utopia of cosmopolitan liberalism. On the other was the specter of reactionary nationalism or fundamentalism. And, of course, in a variety of settings, some national and some diasporically transnational, the value loading was reversed: fundamentalist or national utopia, t...