This study contributes to the discussion on pitch-related preplanning in spontaneous speech production. It investigates the relationship of phrasal length with declination slope, and the initial and final F0 height in intonation phrases extracted from a corpus of Estonian dialogues. The analysis is based on data from 10 speakers. The results show that the declination in shorter phrases is steep...

Abstract Roald Amundsen’s exact route from the top of Axel Heiberg glacier to South Pole and back in 1911–1912 has always been somewhat unclear because he never observed his longitude during southern journey. His approach was simply steer approximately a true southerly direction by magnetic compass as long obstacles did not force him deviate. The fact that only knew where most time on polar pla...

Images obtained by drift-scanning with a stationary telescope are affected by the declination-dependent curvature of star trails. The image displacement to curvature and drift rate variation increases with the angular field of view and can lead to significant loss of resolution with modern large-format CCD arrays. We show that these effects can be essentially eliminated by means of an optical c...

It is unclear how the prosodic features in long spontaneous speech change. We focused on the F0 declination of an utterance to investigate the F0 transition by taking into consideration the length and syntactic structure of a Japanese utterance. In the case of an utterance without a strong syntactic boundary, the F0 range is fixed to a certain width, and the F0s decline toward the end of the ut...

the electrical conductivity of the earth is its physical parameter, which can be studied in global scales. the investigations of the earth's electrical conductivity are based on geomagnetic field variations. time variations of the geomagnetic field consist of long-term and short-term (transient) variations. external sources induce electric currents into the earth. the induced electric curr...

In the history of exchanges between Islamicate and Sanskrit astral sciences, Nityānanda's Siddhāntasindhu (c. early 1630s), composed at court Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān (r. 1628─58), is among earliest examples a Persian astronomical text translated into Sanskrit. an earlier study, Misra (2021) described sociohistorical context in which Nityānanda Mullā Farīd's Zīj-i Jahānī 1629/30) Sanskrit, oth...