Politeness formulas in Arabic are quite common. They can be found literature, speeches by various figures, statements, and publications. Most often these were used continue to medieval poetry the of Arab political figures. was not chosen chance as an object study, since it is that most noticeable. a special form or even formula speech calls on listener reader pay attention something, this way e...


 This study aims at investigating the pragma-rhetorical structure of argumentative discourse in British Parliament. To achieve this aim, Van Eemeren and Houtlosser’s (2002) model strategic maneuvering is utilized.
 Among important conclusions comes up with are: Both figures, i.e. Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn parliament utilize certain strategies either to defend or support their stan...

Corrigendum: Word pair classification during imagined speech using direct brain recordings Stephanie Martin, Peter Brunner, Iñaki Iturrate, José del R. Millán, Gerwin Schalk, Robert T. Knight & Brian N. Pasley Scientific Reports 6:25803; doi: 10.1038/srep25803; published online 11 May 2016; updated on 23 March 2017 This Article contains errors in the order of Figures 1, 2 and 3. Figure 1 was pu...

Abstract We investigated cross-modal influences between speech and sign in hearing bimodal bilinguals, proficient a spoken language, its consequences on visual attention during message preparation using eye-tracking. focused spatial expressions which languages, unlike have modality-driven preference to mention grounds (big objects) prior figures (smaller objects). compared bilinguals’ Dutch Sig...

Dubremetz, M. 2017. Detecting Rhetorical Figures Based on Repetition of Words: Chiasmus, Epanaphora, Epiphora. Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 18. 49 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0165-5. This thesis deals with the detection of three rhetorical figures based on repetition of words: chiasmus (“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”), epanaphora (“Poor old European Commiss...

In this work, we perform the acoustic analysis of features harmonicity, sonority, duration and intensity each /g/ sound extracted from a sample spontaneous speech corpus collected recordings local television programs in Andalusia, Madrid Basque Country. This consists 1292 utterances, which velar appears on 151 occasions different contexts. These sounds are described categorized thanks to Praat ...

This study explores Arabic and English metonymy’s literary, semantic, lexical, aesthetic aspects. It investigates metonymy as a figure of speech compares its types functions in the two languages. The confirms that is culture-bound – meanings metonymies derive from socio-cultural values societies can’t be separated contexts which they occur. stresses significance considering relationship between...

This paper describes a partial parser that assigns syntactic structures to sequences of partof-speech tags. The program uses the maximum entropy parameter estimation method, which allows a flexible combination of different knowledge sources: the hierarchical structure, parts of speech and phrasal categories. In effect, the parser goes beyond simple bracketing and recognises even fairly complex ...

The paper discusses an Amharic speaker independent continuous speech recognizer based on an HMM/ANN hybrid approach. The model was constructed at a context dependent phone part sub-word level with the help of the CSLU Toolkit. A promising result of 74.28% word and 39.70% sentence recognition rate was achieved. These are the best figures reported so far for speech recognition for the Amharic lan...