badi’ iyaat – created as a new technique in a period of arabic literature, that is known as the decline era. the study of this technique as a form of poetry in this era, creates a cloud of doubt for naming the period. there have been many poets with thousands of great poems that reflect the prominence of this era not its decline. the writer of this article has studied badi’ iyaat in khazaanat –...

According to the widely accepted Lexical Category Prominence Rule (LCPR), prominence assignment to triconstituent compounds depends on the branching direction. Left-branching compounds, that is, compounds with a left-hand complex constituent, are held to have highest prominence on the left-most constituent, whereas right-branching compounds have highest prominence on the second of the three con...

This paper describes work directed towards the development of a syllable prominence-based prosody generation functionality for a German unit selection speech synthesis system. A general concept for syllable prominence-based prosody generation in unit selection synthesis is proposed. As a first step towards its implementation, an automated syllable prominence annotation procedure based on acoust...

The concept of "terroir," which refers to the natural and human factors that shape characteristics a particular wine region or vineyard, is subject this text. text presents an analysis existing research on terroir, including keyword search using Web Science creation co-occurrence map keywords VOSviewer. shows terroir has been steadily increasing in recent years, with highest number articles pub...

The paper reports on a web-based perception experiment investigating the perceptual prominence of seven attested nuclear pitch accent types plus deaccentuation in German. Unlike previous studies which link prominence judgments of accents to aspects of intonational meaning, the present study directly asks for the perceived degree of prosodic prominence. Results reveal gradual differences between...

self confronted with a difficulty which is pithily expressed by the phrase embarrass des richesses; Deuitt, Holmes, Beyant, Eeichsen, G-ant and we hope soon to add Agnew, each admirable in its way and specially valuable from some special point of view ; all sound and complete embodiments of modern surgery. We have not included in the list of text books Paget's immortal work or Billeoth's splend...

Prominence has been widely studied on the word level and the syllable level. An extensive study comparing the two approaches is missing in the literature. This study investigates how word and syllable prominence relate to each other in German. We find that perceptual ratings based on the word level are more extreme than those based on the syllable level. The correlations between word prominence...

Materials and methods This study included 300 human adult skulls, which were obtained from the Forensic Osteology Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University. The metopic suture and supraorbital ridge were observed macroscopically. The degree of supraorbital ridge was classifi ed into 4 levels. The 1st level had a massive prominence, the 2nd showed fair prominence, the 3rd indic...

This paper investigates prominence patterns in English nounnoun compounds. A perception experiment is presented in which naive listeners rated the prominence relation between the two elements. It is found that either the first or the second element of the stimuli is perceived as more prominent, and that the distinction can be considered categorical. Pertinent statistics are discussed that can a...