Consonants in word onsets are more often than other consonants involved in interactional speech errors [8] [9]. This has been explained from the process of speech preparation [9] or from the higher degree of activation of initial versus other consonants [2], or from phonotactic constraints on speech errors [6]. Here we report a tongue-twister experiment showing (a) that words in each other’s im...

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This study examines a popular Lithuanian iTV SMS program, Telejazz, which broadcasts music and personal ads posted by viewers to the program in the form of text messages. The contents of the televised SMS ads are compared with previous research on personal ads in print media. Despite the novelty and the technical constraints of the convergent iTV SMS medium, content analysis of the personal ads...

A serious game for learning the social skills required for effective police interviewing is a challenging idea. Building artificial conversational characters that play the role of a suspect in a police interrogation game requires computational models of police interviews as well as of the internal psychological mechanisms that determine the behaviour of suspects in this special type of dialogue...

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The aim of this study is to examine the ways in which individuals’perceptions of media use are inji’uenced by others. Traditional theories of media use have proposed that perceptions of media use are shaped by individuals’ demographic characteristics and the media’s characteristics. However, three recent theories--cn’tical mass theory, social inf7uence model of media use, and adaptive structura...

There are two principal theories of why countries or regions trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is virtually no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two theories in accounting for production structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing returns model of economic geography featuring ‘home market effects’ with that o...