Among extant books of Sufis prose, the prose of Maqalat-e Shams-e Tabrizi has high and particular qualities. Its special language and the sensitivity that Shams shows in every point of his Maqalat regarding language makes us observe the dialectic between structure and meaning of language which is the results of forming a progressive prose compared to the prose of his contemporaries. Among ...

Hilberg’s conjecture is a statement that the mutual information between two adjacent blocks of text in natural language scales as n , where n is the block length. Previously, this hypothesis has been linked to Herdan’s law on the levels of word frequency and of text semantics. Thus it is worth a direct empirical test. In the present paper, Hilberg’s conjecture is tested for a selection of Engli...

The high degree of standardization that can be achieved in the intonational synthesis by rule of isolated utterances may not be applicable to that of Ionger texts, because the listener may become aware of the unnatural recurrence of invariably the same melodic recipe. Two experiments were run in which listeners evaluated the naturalness of a prose text that had been intoned with varying degrees...

A summary of the content of a text as continuous prose. contents A table of contents, specifying the structure of a work and listing its constituents. e element shouldbe used to mark its structure. frontispiece A pictorial frontispiece, possibly including some text. 1is decision should be recorded in the element of the header.2As with all lists of ‘suggested valu...

We address the challenging task of automatically composing lyrical songs with matching musical and lyrical features, and we present the first prototype, M.U. SicusApparatus, to accomplish the task. The focus of this paper is especially on generation of art songs (lieds). The proposed approach writes lyrics first and then composes music to match the lyrics. The crux is that the music composition...

The present article discusses the process approach to reading and its incorporation in the teaching of literary texts. This is attempted because the main project of the thesis is related to the Teaching of English. The pivot of a prose lesson is reading and unless a text is read and understood properly, it will be very difficult to carry on group-work in the classroom. Hence, this article is hi...