Humans are equipped with some universal or language-specific abilities to recognize emotions. However, because of the different emotional contents in diverse languages and the relevant cultural differences, humans with different cultural backgrounds own different metapragmatical abilities to recognize and express emotions. A hypothesis concerning emotional effects about intonation and particle ...

Recent investigations in optimization theory concerning the structure of positive polynomials with a sparsity pattern are interpreted in the more invariant language of (iterated) fibre products of real algebraic varieties. This opens the perspective of treating on a unifying basis the cases of positivity on unbounded supports, on non-semialgebraic supports, or of polynomials depending on counta...

autosegmental-metrical (am) phonology distinguishes two types of accents (stresses), namely: lexical accent and pitch accent. the present study offers an acoustic analysis of the prosodic feature, pitch accent, in the persian speech of persian speakers who are fluent in english as a second language (english instructors). language interference has often been dealt with as the effect of firs lang...

How do you carry out data analysis? There are few texts and little theory. One approach could be to use a pattern language, an idea which has been successful in fields as diverse as town planning and software engineering. Patterns for data analysis are defined and discussed, illustrated with examples.

pieces of literature. A pattern is a configuration or solution to a problem in the design and/or implementation of software that is repeatedly found, though almost always in slightly different form depending on the circumstances. A pattern then is not a programming language construct or an idiom, though in some cases it might be possible to generalize a pattern that way. Many software systems a...