This paper addresses the problem of universal and languagespecific features in intonation perception. It reports the results of a sentence type (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory) identification task performed by Japanese and Russian subjects on re-synthesised one-word two-syllable stimuli with modified rising-falling contours. The effect of parameter manipulations on sentence type percep...

We describe a set of paraphrase patterns for questions which we derived from a corpus of questions, and report the result of using them in the automatic recognition of question paraphrases. The aim of our paraphrase patterns is to factor out different syntactic variations of interrogative words, since the interrogative part of a question adds a syntactic superstructure on the sentence part (i.e...

This paper explores two types of interrogative prosody in Yami, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. (Semi-) spontaneous data collected through the Map Task technique [1] were used and acoustic parameters such as pitch accent shapes, boundary tones, pitch range, and speech rate were examined. The results show that all parameters were used to differentiate interrogative prosody in Yami. Th...

1 Introduction 2 Defining conditionals 2.1 What is a conditional? 2.2 The marking of conditionals 3 Structural issues 3.1 The position of merger of the if-clause 3.1.1 If-clauses as adverbial clauses 3.1.2 Height of attachment 3.1.3 A source for sentence-initial if-clauses 3.2 Clause-internal syntax of the if-clause 3.2.1 The location of if 3.2.2 The conditional–interrogative link 3.2.3 The abs...

In this paper, we explore different neural network architectures that can predict if a speaker of a given utterance is asking a question or making a statement. We compare the outcomes of regularization methods that are popularly used to train deep neural networks and study how different context functions can affect the classification performance. We also compare the efficacy of gated activation...

muhammad al-maqut is considered as one of the most important pioneers of blank verse in arab world. his literary works include different forms such as novel, drama, blank verse, movie script and diary. simplicity, pragmatism and sadness are characteristics of his works. this article attempts to study the language used by al-maqut in “badvi al-ahmar”. the simplicity of the terminology applied by...

This Research under the topic (Sentences of interrogative in Kurdish Language typology view) research is about sentence from view, try to select types and answers Interrogative theory difference this Compare with other previous depend on especially His opinion (Bernard COMRIY) (Norval SMITH) which for purpose they have prepared a questionnaire topic(Lingua Descriptive studies: Questionnaire) pu...

<p><strong>Interrogative sentences are an important aspect of learning a foreign language. Research on Chinese interrogative is still very rare, so the writer chooses to research sentences. This study aims examine contained in video entitled '旅行在中国 Traveling China' YouTube channel 'ChinesePod'. qualitative descriptive study, using observation and note-taking techniques. The data cla...

Materials and Methods: The study evaluated 10 samples each of fresh alloy, recast alloy with addition of 50% of wt. of new alloy and recast alloy without addition of new alloy. Samples were subjected to computerized Universal Testing Machine and mechanical properties viz. tensile strength, yield strength, percentage of elongation, modulus of elasticity and microhardness was tabulated. Data was ...