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Arciuli, Joanne; Mallard, David; Villar, Gina – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Lying is a deliberate attempt to transmit messages that mislead others. Analysis of language behaviors holds great promise as an objective method of detecting deception. The current study reports on the frequency of use and acoustic nature of "um" and "like" during laboratory-elicited lying versus truth-telling. Results obtained using a…
Descriptors: Deception, Acoustics, Discourse Analysis, Ethics
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Baggett, Patricia; Ehrenfeucht, Andrzej – Discourse Processes, 1982
Concludes that junior high school students encode movies better than prose, but that college students encode both equally well. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Error Patterns