objectives: stuttering is one of the most prevalent speech and language disorders. symptomology of stuttering has been surveyed from different aspects such as biological, developmental, environmental, emotional, learning and linguistic. previous researches in english-speaking people have suggested that some linguistic features such as word meanings may play a role in the frequency of speech non...

Research in animals and humans has demonstrated that the hippocampus is critical for retrieving distinct representations of overlapping sequences of information. There is recent evidence that the caudate nucleus and orbitofrontal cortex are also involved in disambiguation of overlapping spatial representations. The hippocampus and caudate are functionally distinct regions, but both have anatomi...

People from varied cultural backgrounds differ in their attention to particular aspects of emotional cues. Whereas semantic content explicitly expresses feelings, vocal tone conveys implicit information regarding emotions. This study examined the attention to different emotional cues in European-American and Chinese children. Participants were 121 EuropeanAmerican and 120 Chinese children (4-9 ...

The purpose of this research is to find out and describe motivations the humor act technique, as well linguistic aspets in Kapal Goyang Kapten movie. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method with technique observing taking notes. results are unitended intended humor. But, result that dominated by ridicule, namely humorous techniques intentional usually aim riddle, so on. aspects found r...

We present a design for acquiring word association knowledge of high quality on the basis of a game with a purpose (GWAP). We evaluate automatically acquired word associations using a word association game as a GWAP. In the word association game, a player is given a set of associated words as a hint and is asked to answer a word that can be associated with the hint. If many players can answer t...

Video games have been created about political and social issues since the early days of the medium. In recent years, many developers are rapidly creating and releasing games in response to current events. These games are being referred to as newsgames. With an increasing number of people citing the internet as their primary news source, it would appear that newsgames could become an important p...

We present a review of methods for procedurally generating the morphology virtual creatures. include range methods, with main groups being from ALife over art to video games. Even though at times these overlap, clarity we have kept this distinction. By including word virtual, mean that focus on simulation in silico, and not physical robots. also historical perspective, with information such ...

abstract background: as adolescents spend much time on playing computer games, their mental and social effects should be considered. the present study aimed to investigate the association between playing computer games and the mental and social health among male adolescents in iran in 2014. materials and methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted on 210 adolescents selected by multi-sta...

In this paper we discuss the utility of approximate string matching procedures in the automation of various aspects of word game construction and solution. These procedures are then related to the underlying issues in computational linguistics.