Objectives: The present research aims to study the normal development of Percentage of Consonant Correct (PCC) in Kurdish-speaking children, with Middle Kurmanji-Mukryani Dialect as an Articulation Competency Index (ACI). PCC was examined in terms of the manner of articulation and position of sound in the word.  Methods: In this descriptoanalytical cross-sectional study, 120 Kurdish-speak...

We aim at the realization of an Embodied Conversational Agent able to interact naturally and emotionally with user(s). In previous work [23], we have elaborated a model that computes the nonverbal behaviors associated to a given set of communicative functions. Specifying for a given emotion, its corresponding facial expression will not produce the sensation of expressivity. To do so, one needs ...

The subject of this essay is the dialectic between word and thought. Between the word and the thought there is therefore no priority of one over the other, but mutual presupposition and a perpetual overlapping: it is at this level that the link between word and thought is actually affected by creativity. Between thought and word there has always implicitly been an original complicity that makes...

Corresponding Author Tel: (+39) 332 278446 Fax: (+39) 332 265586 Email: [email protected] TO investigate effect of MMLA, an inhibitor of nitric oxide (NO) production, on regulation of inflammatory responses to Bordetella pertussis infection, mice were infected intranasally, and treated with various concentrations of MMLA. Ten days after infection, mice treated with MMLA at dosage of 100 mg/kg, given...

CA Corresponding Author Te l/fax : (+55 ) 16 6232792 Email: shfe rre [email protected] N-NITRO-L-A RG ININE m ethyl este r (L-NAME) has been used ex tensive ly as a paradigm atic in h ibitor of NO synthase and has been show n to cause an tinociception in several ex perim ental m odels. We describe here how L-NAME produced a dose-dependen t an tinociceptive effect when in jected intraperitoneally in...

The problems that participants in conversation have, it is argued, are really joint problems and have to be managed jointly. The participants have three types of strategies for managing them. (1) They try to prevent foreseeable but avoidable problems. (2) They warn partners of foreseeable but unavoidable problems. And (3) they repair problems that have already arisen. Speakers and addressees co...

The Whorfian hypothesis has alternately attracted and repelled linguists and psycholinguists for generations. The polar reactions tend to come in waves. We currently seem to be entering a phase of attraction, due in no small part to Dan Slobin’s innovative extension of the Whorfian hypothesis to encompass thinking-for-speaking. The classic Whorfian hypothesis is fundamentally static. It presume...

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Corresponding author: Tel: +46 18 4714316 Fax: +46 18 551120 E-mail: [email protected] BACKGROUND: Allergic asthma is associated with an increased number of eosinophils in the airway wall. Eosinophils secrete cationic proteins, particularly major basic protein (MBP). Aim: To investigate the effect of synthetic cationic polypeptides such as poly-L-arginine, which can mimic the ef...

The development of speech tools suitable for use in real world environments requires collaboration between computational linguistics and new implementation fields e.g. robotics, and the incorporation of new AI techniques to improve overall system performance. In this paper we present the core development concepts of SAID (Speaking Autonomous Intelligent Devices). The work presented centres arou...