Eye-tracking was used to examine how younger and older adults use syntactic and semantic information to disambiguate noun/verb (NV) homographs (e.g., park). We find that young adults exhibit inflated first fixations to NV-homographs when only syntactic cues are available for disambiguation (i.e., in syntactic prose). This effect is eliminated with the addition of disambiguating semantic informa...

Prosodie relations in prose, poetry and music are discussed with an emphasis on durational properties. In order to gain a deeper understanding of speech prosody, we are presently engaged in a comparison of the timing relations in such activities as the reading of poetry and music performance, where there usually is a strong and obvious rhythmic patteming of the produced sound sequences. Also th...

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First, we survey the nonstandard or exaggerated linguistic characteristics that Englishlanguage genealogical text (and indeed that of other languages) often exhibits. For example, in English genealogical prose frequent repetition of subject pronouns is avoided---they are simply dropped, though this would usually be considered ungrammatical except in diaries. Also, genealogical text frequently m...

Composers often face the task of composing melodies for given texts such as religious hymns, poetry or the libretto of an opera. A plausible point of departure for writing melodies for a text is to study the prosody of the text as spoken either naturally or dramatically. In this paper we introduce PROSE: a system for aiding such study. The system extracts the prosody of a spoken signal and (re)...

This essay considers some problems in philosophical approaches to poetry. Philosophers’ accounts of what poetry is are often ill informed. They tend to select, as essential, features that can also characterize prose works: conspicuous metaphoricity, imagination, fictionality, and so on. This essay considers instead a humbler term: verse. It argues that the constraints on language implied by com...

Clinical trials constitute one of the main sources of medical knowledge, yet trial reports are difficult to find, read, and apply to clinical care. Reasons for these difficulties include the lack of a common, standardized, structure for trial reports; the restricted length of reports; and limited computer support for use of the literature. We propose a new model of reporting clinical trials, in...

This article is devoted to the artistic specificity of Viktor Iretskiy, which had been included in collections House Writers and Petrograd branch Union Russia 1922 was not previously subjected scientific comprehension. The texts only testify development two thematic stylistic lines Iretskiy's work 1910s based on post-revolutionary material, but also allow us concluding that their author a promi...