, proposed in my trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (see the updated, and revised 'New Millennium edition' of this work: Castells 2000a). Since, in my view, theor y is simply a research tool, and not the end product of research, the purpose of this exercise is to help

Questions and answers play an important role in spoken dialogue systems as well as in human-human interaction. A critical concern when responding to a question is the timing of the response. While human response times depend on a wide set of features, dialogue systems generally respond as soon

which I briefly touched upon there. Study of the differences between spoken and written language should ideally help us in answering the more abstract question: how does the interpretative component of the human language faculty function. Below I will analyse some specific phrases and clauses from

teachers moved away from routine factual questions which focused on procedures and final answers which were used in the beginning and by the end of the study, they were able to generate questions to probe the pupils ’ thinking. They used more probing and guiding questions and began to plan their questions

Abstract How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We try to answer this question by using the relative trust European citizens have for citizens of other countries. First, we document that this trust is affected not only by objective characteristics of the country being trusted

turns to address one of the central, yet highly elusive, episodes in early Islamic history -the process of conversion to Islam. The goal of this sample analysis of legal sources is twofold -to provide new historiographic insights, but also, from a methodological perspective, to underscore the remarkable

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conversation having 1,669 sentences in natural spoken version of the Sindhi language. Towards the end, it has been found that the Sindhi language has certain theta roles which are assigned by the verbs to their arguments in sentences. Each verb phrase in our data is thus examined and studied in detail in terms

showed that the student was happy to complete the questionnaire and hoped that it would somehow help the dialect, there was another student who simply wished to express their annoyance at being made to answer questions about a variety which they did not speak and in which they were not interested

of the generally positive attitudes toward software and its exchange that were shown by the answers to the multiple choice questions;. Statistically Significant Correlations Among the Response Data At this point it is interesting to consider the possibility that there are some statistically meaningful correlations