What results is a mismatch between prosody and syntax, given that the syntactic elements that form a constituent (determiner and noun phrase) are prosodically separated. While such a phenomenon is attested in certain other languages of the Pacific Northwest, such as Kwakw’ala (cf. Anderson 1985, 1992, 2005), the process is restricted in Upriver Halkomelem to connected-speech contexts, and displ...

BACKGROUND Within an 8-month period, an unprecedented and historical first in Queensland, Australia, the perioperative nurses were members of teams involved in the surgical separation of two sets of conjoined twins. Little is known about the (dis)stress that some of these perioperative nurses experienced nor how best to support them during such experiences. AIM The aim of this paper is to rep...

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This paper considers narrative theory in the light of the requirements of a project just started to use stories around the theme of bullying to build empathy in child users and achieve pedagogical objectives. It describes and discusses the theories of Aristotle, Propp and Barthes, and concludes that the approach taken in improvisational drama and human Role playing Games is more appropriate for...

iii   this study was an attempt to determine the effect of task-based approach vs. traditional approach on the narrative and expository writing of the iranian efl learners. there were two control groups as well as two experimental ones in the current study. in the two control groups namely g1 and g2 narrative and expository writing were taught respectively using the traditiona...

Psychiatry is perhaps the most "narrative" of all medical specialties, but here as elsewhere clinical skills are in danger of being lost as evidence-based medicine becomes the dominant paradigm in medical culture. Psychotherapy is a quintessentially narrative discipline. Starting from an "attachment" perspective, the uses of narrative in psychotherapy are outlined. These include the importance ...

Purpose of the paper and literature addressed: The aim of the paper is to polish the use of qualitative methods in inter-organizational research by discussing how narrative approach can be applied into interorganizational research. The paper relies the key literature related to narratives: narrative cognition (Bruner 1986), narrative interviewing (Mishler 1986, Flick 2004), data gathering and a...

Adaptive hypermedia aims to create a tailored experience for users and with narrative generation this dynamic content can be in the form of engaging stories. Narrative generation systems range from the automatic generation of bespoke stories to the representation of existing information as narrative. However narrative generation systems often produce bland and unvaried stories. In this paper we...

AIM This article reviews the available studies assessing the association between chronic inflammatory periodontal diseases with atherosclerosis-induced diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and their complications, using standard evidence based criteria. METHODS This study is based on a literature search using Medline medical database covering the period from 2001 to April 2006 and applying spec...

This investigation evaluated relations between preschoolers' representational content and coherence in the MacArthur Story Stem Battery (MSSB) at age four as related to child adjustment at age six. A community sample of 250 preschoolers (50% female; M(age) = 49.05 months, SD = 2.9; 46% Hispanic, 18% Black, 11.2% White, 0.4% Asian, and 24.4% multiracial) completed assessments of relational repre...