The accent of BBC radio presenters

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a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Celebrity presenter characteristics Hook versus linear conceptualization of characteristics Persuasion and dissuasion This study validates Rossiter and Percy's (1987) hook theory of presenter characteristics, for celebrity presenters. Firstly, by employing a product-alone control group, the study demonstrates that some celebrity-product pairings have a good fit a...

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The Bbc Folk Music Collection

In a sense I write under false pretences because the BBC possesses no special archives devoted to folk music. For the purposes of broadcasting, the BBC began to make recordings a t the end of 1931 and over the las t thirty years has built up a general Sound Archives of some 30,000 accession numbers: recordings mainly selected from its own broadcast programmes, ranging from variety to grand oper...

The effect of accent on the acoustic cues to stop voicing in Radio News speech

Data from three acoustic cues to stop voicing is analyzed for the effect of phrasal accent in a corpus of read radio news speech from a single speaker of American English. The results show that VOT, Closure Duration and F0 are significant cues to voicing for stops in this corpus, though the acoustic patterns vary by place of articulation. There is a significant effect of phrasal accent on each ...

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The nonsmooth composite minimization problem, whose objective function is the sum of an average of N smooth (possibly nonconvex) functions plus a proper closed convex function, is widely studied in large-scale machine learning, statistics and optimization. Unlike the numerous stochastic firstorder methods, the knowledge on stochastic second-order methods for this problem is very limited. In thi...