This paper examined the characteristics of the English rising tone in yes-no questions produced by native speakers of Japanese according to the different levels of the intelligibility of intonation. Five native English speakers evaluated the intelligibility for three kinds of yes-no questions read by 10 Japanese speakers: the questions were those with the nucleus placed in the sentenceinitial, ...

This article presents the contributions of Paulo Freire’s thinking to Media and Education studies construction concept Educommunication. For this purpose, a mapping scientific productions on theme in Latin America was carried out, with aim raising main fundamentals recurrent authors publications analyzed their articulation assumptions field Media-Education. It qualitative study, whose methodolo...

A framework for skill acquisition is proposed that includes two major stages in the development of a cognitive skill: a declarative stage in which facts about the skill domain are interpreted and a procedural stage in which the domain knowledge is directly embodied in procedures for performing the skill. This general framework has been instantiated in the ACT system in which facts are encoded i...

Introduction: Production and applicationofradiopharmaceuticals is one of the priorities in the comprehensive health map of Iran. The present study examines the scientific documentation of the Iranian radiopharmaceutical development program in the horizon 2025 in comparison to other regional competitors. Methods: The present study is a descriptive review p...

Child productions of two-syllable strong-weak words like baby and cookie are observed to exhibit a wide range of implementations of the medial stop consonant compared to adult productions. Detailed acoustic analysis of these consonants reported here lays the groundwork for prosodic analysis of the role of foot structure in the development of production of bisyllabic words. Acoustic details of t...

This investigation explores perceptual and acoustic characteristics of children's successful and unsuccessful productions of /t/ and /k/, with a specific aim of exploring perceptual sensitivity to phonetic detail, and the extent to which this sensitivity is reflected in the acoustic domain. Recordings were collected from 4- to 8-year-old children with a speech sound disorder (SSD) who misarticu...

A course aimed at writing Scientific Research Articles (SRA) in English was offered to Spanish-speaking researchers a public university Argentina. It deployed activities described by the Reading Learn Pedagogy (R2L) (MARTIN; ROSE, 2012). This article assesses effectiveness of this pedagogy analyzing students’ productions. We compared abstracts SRA written before and after implementation R2L’s p...