Motherese has been studied particularly in its prosodic features. The scientific literature underlined the importance of this type communication on infants’ vocal responsiveness. However, we still know little about role motherese preterm We intend to and communicative characteristics dyads understand relationship with infant’s At NICU, mothers (N = 38) were asked speak sing without words (hummi...

this study examined naturally-occurring university classroom interactions at iranian universities and provided an analysis of silence patterns as politeness strategies used by male and female students. since empirical studies of silence in classroom settings are scarce, this paper aimed to explain such phenomena using participant interviews, classroom observation and detailed discourse analysis...

SloMoVo is mostly inaudible voice/grunts/hums triggering synths generated in real-time. It throat synthing: making silence into sound. Each word makes a mountain. breath begins tide. asks: how do tiny seemingly inconsequential gestures of our lives reverberate through networks? How potent the impotent unheard voice when augmented with tech? What effect does or repressed invisible have on resona...

This paper presents a new polling scheme, that can be used at the Access Point of an IEEE802.11 wireless network as part of the Point Coordination Function, in order to provide guaranteed QoS support of voice traffic. The so called Cyclic Shift polling scheme along with the use of silence detection at the mobile terminals increases the supported number of calls, as a function of the overall rat...

‘Whistleblowing’ has come to increased prominence in many health systems as a means of identifying and addressing quality and safety issues. But whistleblowing – and the reactions to it – have many complex and ambiguous aspects that need to be considered as part of the broader (organisational) cultural dynamics of healthcare institutions.