this study investigates the effect of four types of oral corrective feedback, namely, explicit elicitation, implicit elicitation, explicit recast and implicit recast on the most commonly mispronounced phonological features among iranian efl learners through immediate uptake and retention. five classes were randomly categorized into four experimental groups and one control group, each with 18 in...

We present here a perceptual analysis of Brazilian Portuguese prosody expressing eleven different attitudes using an interrogative mode. The attitudes are separated between 6 social, and 4 propositional expressions plus a neutral expression, and are performed by two native speakers (a female and a male). An earlier work studied the declarative mode. The aim of the current study is to perceptual...

Previous analyses on friendly speech were made using dialogues without differentiating their linguistic functions. This paper reports an analysis on declarative and interrogative sentences respectively. Pitch and duration of prosodic words were statistically analyzed and compared concerning factors of their positions and stresses. Based on the acoustic investigation of friendly speech, tonal pi...

Objectives: This study is undertaken to evaluate the dependence of bond strength of 100% fresh nonprecious alloy and the combination of 50% recast (used) alloy and 50% fresh alloy with three different veneering ceramic material. Materials and methods: To evaluate the shear bond strength between new and recast alloy nonprecious Ni-Cr alloy (System KN®, Adentatec, Germany) was used with three dif...

This paper presents the results of mechanical strength of wet and dry zirconia/ Nafion® nano-composite membrane. The tensile tests were conducted to determine elastic modulus and stiffness of dry and wet pristine Nafion® membrane and modified Nafion® membrane. The composite membranes were prepared by recast method of different synthesized zirconium oxide with the zirconia content of 10% by weig...

We present a new approach to a sentence of interrogative form in Japanese within the framework of Montague Grammar. The possibility of various uses of an interrogative sentence; uses as a question, an exclamation, a rhetorical question, a demand and a recommendation is explained based on the same denotation for the sentence. The denotation which is neutral for all possible uses is defined in te...

The primary goal of this paper is to investigate whether interrogative suggestibility is related to certain personality traits in an Estonian sample of subjects (N = 61; 20 men and 41 women; mean age = 20.6 years; SD = 2.98) as well as to explore whether some facial characteristics (mood-related and/or trait-related) of persons belonging to this sample can be related to perceived or real sugges...

The RECAST method (Reverse Engineering into CASE Technology) is a practical method that has been developed for reverse engineering COBOL systems [Edwards95a]. In applying the method the system maintainer derives a system representation which is equivalent to an SSADM logical system specification [CCTA90]. The method has been developed for use in organisations with large COBOL legacy systems who...