Analysis and Quality Tests of the ATLAS Muon Endcap Trigger Chambers

The subject of this thesis is the design and operation of the data acquisition system, which serves to analyze and to test the performance of the Thin Gap Chambers (TGC) detector. The TGCs are detectors designed to detect the high transverse momentum muons in the endcaps of the ATLAS detector. The ATLAS Collaboration is building a general-purpose pp detector, which is design to exploit the full discovery potential of the High Energy proton-proton interaction in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) currently built at CERN. The LHC will offer a large range of physics opportunities, among which the origin of mass at the electroweak scale. The short time response of the TGCs makes it an ideal trigger system for selecting interesting events in the highly packed environment of the LHC accelerator. Being part of the trigger system of the ATLAS experiment it is required that the TGCs will reach uniform high detection efficiency in a fast time response. The testbench build in Tel-Aviv University, uses muon from Cosmic Rays to test that performance

Laughing about laughter: comparing conversational analysis, emotion psychology, and dialogical semantics

That laughter invites laughter is a basic tenet of Conversation Analysis analyses of laughter, whereas emotion psychology analyses describe various emotive and social effects laughter exhibits relative to various phonetic parameters. We provide data concerning laughter responses to laughter which we argue show neither approach can explicate and more generally suggest they cannot offer a general account of laughter and related non-verbal social signals. We sketch how distinct kinds of laughter responses to laughter - along with a host of other kinds of responses - can be systematically analyzed within a dialogical semantics, which integrates illocutionary and emotive effects

Laughing about laughter: comparing conversational analysis, emotion psychology, and dialogical semantics

That laughter invites laughter is a basic tenet of Conversation Analysis analyses of laughter, whereas emotion psychology analyses describe various emotive and social effects laughter exhibits relative to various phonetic parameters. We provide data concerning laughter responses to laughter which we argue show neither approach can explicate and more generally suggest they cannot offer a general account of laughter and related non-verbal social signals. We sketch how distinct kinds of laughter responses to laughter - along with a host of other kinds of responses - can be systematically analyzed within a dialogical semantics, which integrates illocutionary and emotive effects

Laughter growing up

We present a longitudinal corpus observation of laughter use in child-mother interaction from 12 to 36 months of age from a pragmatic perspective. The main aim of our work is to investigate how laughter use in interaction may be informative about pragmatic development. We observe significant differences in child and mother use of laughter and changes over time as the child grows up, specifically in the frequency, in the pragmatic functions of laughter, and in the response to other’s laughter.We present a longitudinal corpus observation of laughter use in child-mother interaction from 12 to 36 months of age from a pragmatic perspective. The main aim of our work is to investigate how laughter use in interaction may be informative about pragmatic development. We observe significant differences in child and mother use of laughter and changes over time as the child grows up, specifically in the frequency, in the pragmatic functions of laughter, and in the response to other’s laughter

Laughter growing up

We present a longitudinal corpus observation of laughter use in child-mother interaction from 12 to 36 months of age from a pragmatic perspective. The main aim of our work is to investigate how laughter use in interaction may be informative about pragmatic development. We observe significant differences in child and mother use of laughter and changes over time as the child grows up, specifically in the frequency, in the pragmatic functions of laughter, and in the response to other’s laughter.We present a longitudinal corpus observation of laughter use in child-mother interaction from 12 to 36 months of age from a pragmatic perspective. The main aim of our work is to investigate how laughter use in interaction may be informative about pragmatic development. We observe significant differences in child and mother use of laughter and changes over time as the child grows up, specifically in the frequency, in the pragmatic functions of laughter, and in the response to other’s laughter

Investigating Non-Sentential Utterances in a Spoken Chinese Corpus

International audienceThis paper describes a preliminary investigation into Chinese non-sentential utterances (NSUs) in a corpus of spoken Mandarin. It presents, with examples, a corpus-based taxonomy of Chinese NSUs. This taxonomy builds on the one by Fernández and Ginzburg for English NSUs in the British National Corpus (BNC) [1]. Partly due to the distinctiveness of spoken Chinese, eight new classes are added and their reasons for addition are explained. The paper concludes with discussions for future work