This paper looks into the possibility of deriving manner of articulation classes from phoneme cooccurrence frequencies. We show that distance measures based on phoneme co-occurrence frequencies group abstract manner of articulation classes that participate in phonological processes in spite of high acoustic and articulatory variability, e. g: obstruents, liquids, approximants, etc. The test lan...

This study investigated the perception of elliptical speech (Miller & Nicely, 1955) in an adult cochlear implant patient. A group of 20 adult listeners with normal hearing were used for comparison. Two experiments were conducted using sets of meaningful and anomalous English sentences. Two versions of each set of sentences were constructed: One set contained correct place of articulation cues; ...

This study examined the impact of structuredness of asynchronous online discussion protocols and evaluation rubrics on meaningful discourse. Transcripts of twelve online discussions involving 87 participants from four sections of a graduate course entitled Instructional Technology Foundations and Learning Theory were analysed across four semesters. Protocols and evaluation rubrics guiding onlin...

OBJECTIVE to synthesize the scientific literature about the Theory of Meaningful Learning in the process of teaching and learning in nursing. METHOD this is an integrative review conducted in the databases MEDLINE, LILACS, SciELO, BDENF and CINAHL with studies addressing the subject or aspects of the theory of meaningful learning of David Ausubel. Ten studies were included, from which six wer...

The division of linguistic structure into a meaningless (phonological) level and a meaningful level of morphemes and words is considered a basic design feature of human language. Although established sign languages, like spoken languages, have been shown to be characterized by this bifurcation, no information has been available about the way in which such structure arises. We report here on a n...