Speech-based e-Education technology allows users to access learning content on the web by dialing a telephone number. Speech-enabled applications, particularly in the domain of education are primarily implemented to cater for the plight of the visually impaired towards addressing the shortcomings of user interface (UI) design of a mobile learner. However, with the increase in learning resources...

In this paper we describe a method for learning grammars in the general framework of Harmonic Serialism (see McCarthy this volume for references and an introduction). We have two main goals. The first is to address the hidden structure problem that serial derivations introduce. The second is to address the problem of learning variation, which has yet to be confronted in this framework (see also...

Disruptions to supply chains come in many forms. There are natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes, and disasters perpetrated by humans, such as terrorist attacks. And there are dislocations that have more to do with the nature of business. Globalisation is stretching supply chains internationally at a time when market volatility is increasing, exposing companies to greater uncerta...

Conventional academic discourse, within both law and political science tells the story of how the European Court of Justice, though its judgments and judicial practices has ‘constitutionalised’ the EC Treaty, reformatting an intergovernmental bargain into a federal legal order. Many accounts have presented the Court as the heroic champion of integration, pushing the integrationist agenda forwar...

Kuhn’s account of the development of science, together with its associated concepts of paradigm, normal science an scientific revolutions, has been the focus of intensive debate ever since its first publication in 1962.2 As a subsidiary issue in this debate the question has been raised as to the applicability of Kuhn’s theory or of Kuhn’s concepts to the history of individual scientific discipl...

The Britishness agenda found in political speeches, reporting and opinion editorials is here posited as a form of ‘new racism’, as it emphasises the difference between ‘them’, Muslims, and ‘us’, non-Muslim Britons, and uses that difference as a defining demarcation. Twenty-first-century political discourse invested in the Britishness agenda works to eradicate distinctions between British Muslim...

This paper investigates learner-initiated responses to English language teachers’ referential questions and learner initiatives after teachers’ feedback moves in meaning-focused question-answer sequences to analyze how interactional practices of language teachers, their initiation and feedback moves, facilitate learner initiatives. Classroom discourse research has largely neglected learner init...