新年献词

金牛踏雪迎春到,瑞气升腾满乾坤.当新年的钟声回荡在神州大地,岁月的航船驶向新的征程,我们辞别了令人难忘的2008年,迎来了充满生机的2009年.     

辞旧岁 庆胜利 迎新春

刚刚过去的2005年,我国胜利地完成了“十五”业结构优化升级,促进区域协调发展,建设资源节划。这是在中国共产党领导下,全国各族人民团约型和环境友好型社会,进一步深化体制改革和提奋斗、锐意进取的结果。“十五”时期是不平凡的高对外开放水平,深入实施科教兴国战略和人才强年。我国成功应对了上世纪末亚洲金融危机带来国战略,使社会主义和谐社会建设事业更上一个台严重冲击,战胜了非典疫情和重大自然灾害的挑阶。这是一项极其宏伟、光荣而又十分艰巨的任务,,加强改善了对经济建设的宏观调控,从容应对需要全社会各行各业共同努力。胡锦涛…     

Pastoral theologian of the year

Pastoral theologian of the year     

An aspect of sex-role identification with a sample of twelve year olds and sixteen year olds

It is argued that the social relationships of late childhood have attributes which encourage the feminine stereotype rather than the masculine stereotype. It is hypothesized that children of both sexes who attest to masculine characteristics will feel higher levels of discordance than those children who attest to feminine characteristics. It is also argued that by 16 years this relationship will no longer pertain. Bem's (1974) Sex-Role Inventory was modified in terms of item content, language, and scale to make it appropriate to 11 year olds. The hypothesis concerning discordance was partly confirmed, although sex differences may be present. A second hypothesis concerning the relationship between gregarious interests and sex-role attributes was confirmed, for all groups except the younger boys.     

Social cognition in the first year

Although the study of infancy has answered many important questions about the human capacity for social cognition, the relatively young field of developmental social cognition is far from reaching its adulthood. With the merging of developmental, behavioral and neurocognitive sciences, some growing pains are in store. New work demonstrates that research into early social cognitive development must integrate various research fields and methods in order to achieve a more robust understanding of the nature and parameters of human social cognition.     

Acoustic emphasis in four year olds

Acoustic emphasis may convey a range of subtle discourse distinctions, yet little is known about how this complex ability develops in children. This paper presents a first investigation of the factors which influence the production of acoustic prominence in young children’s spontaneous speech. In a production experiment, SVO sentences were elicited from 4 year olds who were asked to describe events in a video. Children were found to place more acoustic prominence both on ‘new’ words and on words that were ‘given’ but had shifted to a more accessible position within the discourse. This effect of accessibility concurs with recent studies of adult speech. We conclude that, by age four, children show appropriate, adult-like use of acoustic prominence, suggesting sensitivity to a variety of discourse distinctions.