Apert's syndrome (acrocephalosyndactyly) is a rare congenital disorder characterized by craniosynostosis, midfacial malforma-tion and symmetrical syndactyly of hands and feet. Craniofacial deformities include cone-shaped calvarium, fat forehead, prop-tosis, hypertelorism and short nose with a bulbous tip. Intraoral findings include high arched palate with pseudocleft, maxillary transverse and s...

• Pseudoclefts recur in Swedish everyday and institutional interaction. There are both integrated biclausal clefts non-integrated variants. Typical pseudoclefts frame a contribution with speaker stance. attract focus to shifts the progression of discourse. contribute creating discourse, used by expert participant. In this study we present an interactional linguistic analysis based on audio vide...

BACKGROUND The present paper describes the oral manifestations in a 16-year-old boy previously diagnosed with Apert syndrome. PATIENT AND METHODS The extraoral and intraoral pathological findings were recorded. The following intraoral parameters were recorded: plaque and calculus deposits, dental caries, periodontal status, malpositions, and occlusion. For the upper anterior teeth, dental sha...

(1) can be uttered as part of a ”strategy of inquiry” (Roberts 1998, 4) where it is under discussion what members of a contextually given set of people wanted to see. It reports on Sandy’s wishes as opposed to those of the other members of the set. The felicity of this sentence under these circumstances can be made to follow from the assumption that the content of What Sandy wanted to see is th...

This study investigates two types of clausal structures in American Sign Language (ASL), “rhetorical” whquestions and doubling constructions. Following work by Petronio (1993), I assume the stance that rhetorical wh-questions are pseudoclefts (wh-clefts). Unlike languages that use focus particles or relative clause-like structures, here ASL achieves the semantic properties of a cleft by moving ...