the main objective of the present study is to elaborate the contrasts between males and females in their use of different strategies of complaint in english and persian and ascertain the degree to which independent variables like gender and language affect the application of these strategies during informal communication. furthermore, it offers comparable corpora which provide a good basis for ...

Despite its presence in all natural languages, importance for intelligibility, pivotal role during language acquisition and significance as a marker of language dysfunction, prosodic processing has been largely neglected in cognitive science. Here we examined hemispheric specialisation for linguistic word-level prosody, in particular, stress typicality, using dichotic listening. In Experiment 1...

Identifying an opinion target, a primary object of the opinion expression (e.g., the real-world object, event, and abstract entity), is helpful for extracting target-related opinions and detecting user interests. This paper presents a novel framework for target-based opinion analysis, which extracts opinionated sentences and identifies their opinion targets from news articles. To determine whet...

This research involves perceptual comparisons with cues that vary in one of four ways (picture, sound, spoken word or printed word) and with targets that are either pictures or environmental sounds. Students were required to match cue-target pairs and determine whether the 2 successive events represented features drawn from the same item. Both the perceptual/linguistic format and the modality o...

This paper addresses the significance of rare patterns in linguistic typology. In the Georgian nominal system, vowel deletion in the context of hiatus targets low vowels regardless of position. This pattern is extremely unusual (possibly unique) both in that it targets low vowels (Gouskova 2003) and in that the position of the vowel does not play a role in determining which vowel is deleted (Ca...

Four experiments investigated 4-year-olds' understanding of adjective-noun compositionality and their sensitivity to statistics when interpreting scalar adjectives. In Experiments 1 and 2, children selected tall and short items from 9 novel objects called pimwits (1-9 in. in height) or from this array plus 4 taller or shorter distractor objects of the same kind. Changing the height distribution...

This study investigated how laypersons assess subclinical depression in others from 2 forms of written self-descriptions: personal diaries and online blogs. Fifty-seven target participants wrote essays describing their personality as they would in each context. Naïve judges then rated targets' depression from the 2 sets of self-descriptions. The judges achieved high and comparable levels of acc...

Conversational speech recognition is a challenging problem primarily because speakers rarely fully articulate sounds. A successful speech recognition approach must infer intended spectral targets from the speech data, or develop a method of dealing with large variances in the data. Hidden Dynamic Models (HDMs) attempt to automatically learn such targets in a hidden feature space using models th...

As we have argued throughout, language is always already political. Nevertheless, collegiate German studies curricula often seem largely indifferent to politics, especially those that complicate or disrupt the notion of as a singular with an indexical relationship nation-states which it associated. However, discourses such described in previous sections on linguistic indifference cultural produ...

The eyes never cease to move: ballistic saccades quickly turn the gaze toward peripheral targets, whereas smooth pursuit maintains moving targets on the fovea where visual acuity is best. Despite the oculomotor system being endowed with exquisite motor abilities, any attempt to generate smooth eye movements against a static background results in saccadic eye movements. Although exceptions to th...