This qualitative study examines linguistic authority in an international department of a European Union institution in Luxembourg. Using socio-pragmatic discourse analysis, it investigates language workers' stances towards language use at work. The findi
Several studies have been conducted to address the learning of a normative speech contrast in adulthood, using native speakers of Japanese and the English /r/-/I/ contrast. Japanese adults were asked to identify contrasting /r/-/I/ stimuli (e.g., rock-loc
in previous fMRI research, we found that two subregions of the left inferior frontal cortex showed distinct patterns of activity during a verbal working memory task. Specifically, a more dorsal region tracked with performance, while a more ventral region
Location models are crucial for providing location-dependent data to context-aware applications. In this paper, we present two approaches for modeling location information taken from an infrastructure-based and an ad hoc network-based application scenario
Objective. Abnormalities in brain structure, cognition, and behavior have been described in children born prematurely. However, no direct in vivo evidence has yet demonstrated abnormal neural processing in these children. Our aim was to compare brain acti
In 1998, Chung and Chang proposed a new method to encrypt binary images. When compared to its predecessors, their method can actually obtain better compression ratio by putting different scan patterns at the same level in the scan tree structure and using
This paper presents XeraWord, an innovative tool for automatically generating nominal phrases. XeraWord can be used for different tasks, ranging from teaching languages to the creation of examples in lexicography, or even for the development of resources
This text provides a critical analysis and assessment of Charles Goodwin's theory of co-operative action. First, it characterizes Goodwin's distinctive research style, analyzing his specific way of presenting research findings, as well as drawing on mem
This ethnographic case study investigates how a young rural Chinese EAL learner engages in a translanguaging process as she reads a digital and multilingual Cinderella picturebook in her home. It documents wide-ranging translanguaging relations dynamicall
The article discusses the challenges and methodological choices undertaken within a research project on language education in two prison schools in Greece with migrant multilingual student inmates, aged 18-22 years old. The 2.5 years of research adopted N
This paper describes the functions and variation in the use of PALM-UP in bidirectional French - LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language) interpreting. Data from final-year students of the Master's degree in Sign Language Interpreting at UCLouvain (Belgium) w
Mixture modelling of class-conditional densities is a standard pattern recognition technique. Although most research on mixture models has concentrated on mixtures for continuous data, emerging pattern recognition applications demand extending research ef
The purpose of this study was to describe the influence of patient gender and ethnicity on physician-patient communication about depression and anxiety. A data set comprised of audiotapes and transcripts of 383 patients' primary care visits was analyzed.
In this paper we provide a view of the design and development activity concerning advanced environments for parallel and distributed computing. We start from assessing the main issues driving this research track, in the areas of hardware and software tech
Humans' social lives are a series of performances in which they are actors trying to convey a message to their audiences. Over the years they develop habits of social interaction: They learn how to use facial expressions and body language to convey emoti