This paper presents results from the analysis of segmental duration in French in three different speaking styles, (a) 'reading'; (b) 'news broadcast' ; (c) 'spontaneous interview'. A ten minute corpus was hand segmented and labelled using six accent categories (i) unstressed (ii) word-initial (iii) emphatic word-initial (iv) word-final (v) intonation unit final before non-terminal boundary (vi)...

This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), clauses, and phrases. Results showed that the degree of final lengthe...

Mammalian peripheral cold thermoreceptors respond to cooling of their sensory endings with an increase in firing rate and modification of their discharge pattern. We recently showed that cultured trigeminal cold-sensitive (CS) neurons express a prominent hyperpolarization-activated current (I(h)), mainly carried by HCN1 channels, supporting subthreshold resonance in the soma without participati...

The purpose of this study was to explore learning and memory in the Hering-Breuer (HB) reflex simulated by a 60-second-long electrical stimulation of vagus nerve. The responses of phrenic nerve discharge to electrical stimulation (10-100 Hz, 20-60 muA, pulse duration 0.3 ms, for 60 s) of the vagus nerve were observed in rabbits. The results showed that 60-second-long stimulation of vagus nerve ...

Received August 6, 2003 Abstract Achondroplasia and hypochondroplasia limb lengthening has become better accepted over last thirty years. We studied our experience on all limb lengthening for short stature over the last ten years. We reviewed patient records, X-rays and Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) scans to evaluate the changes in body proportion after limb lengthening and the compli...

Longitudinal studies of human leucocyte telomere length often report a percentage of individuals whose telomeres appear to lengthen. However, based on theoretical considerations and empirical data, Steenstrup et al. (Nucleic Acids Research, 2013, vol 41(13): e131) concluded that this lengthening is unlikely to be a real biological phenomenon and is more likely to be an artefact of measurement e...

As [1]’s model of speech production suggests, speakers sense upcoming difficulties and can correct them before uttering. A reasonable strategy to bridge resulting gaps is to prolong the words in the articulatory buffer [2]. This often buys enough time to correct the issue, resulting in standalone disfluent lengthening, after which fluency is resumed [3]. In case of more severe difficulties, the...