This study examined durational cues at discourse boundaries in spontaneous speech in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) using a two-hour monologue corpus contributed by four elderly female speakers from the same dialectal region. Discourse labeling was done following the method of Fon et al. (2011). Two durational cues were examined: syllable duration and post-syllable pause duration. Results showed tha...

Drought is one of the most important factors limiting crop yields around the world. Drought stress in plants, the change (increase or decrease) in the production of plant proteins. This research was carried out using bread wheat genotypes. For evaluation of leaf protein pattern in wheat, 10 genotypes were assayed with 3 replications under irrigated (non-stress) and rain-fed (stress) conditions....

Word reduction by weak syllable omission is a fairly common phenomenon in several populations, including normally developing children, children with Specific Language Impairment, and adults with aphasia. A recent study (Carter & Clopper, submitted) has shown that normal adults reduce words using strategies similar to those used by the above-mentioned populations and that these strategies vary t...

Drought is one of the most important factors limiting crop yields around the world. Drought stress in plants, the change (increase or decrease) in the production of plant proteins. This research was carried out using bread wheat genotypes. For evaluation of leaf protein pattern in wheat, 10 genotypes were assayed with 3 replications under irrigated (non-stress) and rain-fed (stress) conditions....

This paper provides a description of prosodic structure and intonational properties of Koasati, an endangered Muskogean language spoken by approximately 300 people in Louisiana and Texas. Words in Koasati group into Accentual Phrases (AP), which are characterized by an initial and final high tone. Accentual Phrases in turn combine to form Intonational Phrases (IP), which are defined by a final ...

This paper shows that measures of text-to-tune alignment (i.e. analyses of f0 target points in relation to segmental landmarks) are able to shed light on significant prosodic differences in read speech between a group of six speakers of standard French from Northern France and a group of six speakers of Swiss French from the Vaud canton. The tonal targets measured in this study seemed to be anc...

Background: Incivility is disruptive behavior that can cause physiological or psychological distress to those involved and escalate into a potentially dangerous situation such as serious suicidal tendency engage in self-injury if left untreated. be caused by variety of factors, one which stress; however, stress also incivility. Objective: This study aimed examine the relationship between incivi...

This study investigates whether or not the representation of lexical stress information can be primed during speech production. In four experiments, we attempted to prime the stress position of bisyllabic target nouns (picture names) having initial and final stress with auditory prime words having either the same or different stress as the target (e.g., WORtel-MOtor vs. koSTUUM-MOtor; capital l...

The final stages of dengue virus fusion are thought to occur when the membrane-proximal stem drives the transmembrane anchor of the viral envelope protein (E) toward the fusion loop, buried in the target cell membrane. Crystal structures of E have lacked this essential stem region. We expressed and crystallized soluble mutant forms of the dengue virus envelope protein (sE) that include portions...