Steel pipes with circular cross-sections are usually used in cooling panels of electric arc furnaces. In the present study pipes with square cross-sections under equivalent conditions were used to obtain more information on the possibility of increasing the heat transfer and cooling efficiency. The results showed increased efficiency of the square pipe compared to the circular cross-section pip...

What do people attend to when describing the locations of objects in space? This paper describes a study of the ways in which speakers of seventeen languages describe static spatial relations, delving into the meanings of two kinds of spatial relational terms evident crosslinguistically: specific spatial terms and generalized spatial terms. The findings provide support for the importance of geo...

This study has three purposes: the first is to study if there is any stability in the way we interpret different emotions and attitudes from prosodic patterns, the second is to see if this interpretation is dependent on the listeners cultural and linguistic background, and the third is to find out if there is any reoccurring relation between acoustic and semantic properties of the stimuli. Reco...

The role of test translation and test adaptation for Cross-Linguistic Instruments (CLIs)or multilingual tests is of vital importance given the increasing international use of high stakes assessments which affect and help make educational policy. Test developers have traditionally relied upon either expert-dependent or psychometric methods to create comparable CLIs. The problem with expertdepend...

Research suggests that more cases of dyslexia are diagnosed in populations that speak languages with highly opaque writing systems, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, or France, and fewer cases of dyslexia are diagnosed in populations that speak language with transparent writing systems, such as Italy, Spain, or Mexico. This disparity can be explained by the differences in how dysle...

Many studies in cognitive science address how people categorize objects, but there has been comparatively little research on event categorization. This study investigated the categorization of events involving material destruction, such as “cutting” and “breaking”. Speakers of 28 typologically, genetically, and areally diverse languages described events shown in a set of video-clips. There was ...

Cross-linguistic phonetic studies have yielded several insights into the possible states of the glottis. People can control the glottis so that they produce speech sounds with not only regular voicing vibrations at a range of different pitches, but also harsh, soft, creaky, breathy and a variety of other phonation types. These are controllable variations in the actions of the glottis, not just ...

Presentation: Oral presentation As they are most often thought of, complementizers may be defined as linguistic expressions that have a particular function: the function of identifying the clauses in which they occur as complements (Noonan 2007: 55). In addition to this function, however, complementizers may have a modal function (e.g. Frajzyngier 1995). In Jacaltec, for instance, the complemen...