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Stephen Crain (C) & Rosalind Thornton (T) have garnered a welldeserved reputation for their unwavering commitment to language learnability as a constraint not only on theories of child language and language development but also on experimental design and the interpretation of experimental findings. In his well-known defense of children’s early knowledge of syntactic constraints, Crain (1991) ar...

with the development of research on educational psychology and foreign language teaching and learning, one of the most controversial concepts in educational psychology might be the issues related to the students’ achievement goal orientations. regarding the goals that students adopt which might influence their academic success and failure, this study was undertaken to determine whether gender a...

writers ensure the expected (re)construction of concepts in the mind of the audience through effective signposting of the inevitably linear linguistic stream, which is a main aspect of metadiscourse called interactive metadiscourse. in this study, the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in research articles was investigated to examine any probable difference existing between different disc...

The speech signal contains information that characterises the speaker and the phonetic content, together with the emotion being expressed. This paper looks at the effect of this speakerand phoneme-specific information on speech-based automatic emotion classification. The performances of a classification system using established acoustic and prosodic features for different phonemes are compared,...

in the last decades an increasing number of clubs, associations, and partnerships behind professional team sports have become business enterprises as well; as regards their income and number of employees, there are numerous companies managing sports clubs in the medium sized enterprise sector. by nature of being businesses that manage sports, successful performance is usually the number one str...

abstract. academic spin-offs are recognized as the main means of technology transfer, contribute to the commercialization of the results of academic research, leading to society wealth creation. academic spin-offs start with some major disadvantages related to their liability of newness, smallness and their university origination. it is been argued that academic spin-off need to strengthen thei...

the present research work was carried out to assess the relationship between outreach services of a faculty member, and his academic tasks of teaching performance and research productivity. a number of 95 faculty members from the colleges of agriculture and natural resources constituted the statistical population of the study. a questionnaire was employed for collection of data on outreach serv...

It is a traditional belief that in order to scale-up to more effective retrieval and access methods modern Information Retrieval has to consider more the text content. The modalities and techniques to fit this objectives are still under discussion. More empirical evidence is required to determine the suitable linguistic levels for modeling each IR subtask (e.g. information zoning, parsing, feat...