This paper investigates how sentence stresses are allocated within disyllabic prosodic words in Mandarin. By analyzing the results of a perceptual experiment on sentence stress, three factors i.e., stress type, word constitution and tone identity, which are probably related to sentence stress, are investigated . The authors argue that (1) semantic stresses tend to locate on the initial syllable...

15 sentence in which they appear. Here, we address this question head-on experimentally. We first investigate the information status of appositives and find that while nominal appositives (e.g. a classical violinist) and sentence-medial appositive relative clauses (e.g. who is a classical violinist) are largely not at issue, sentence-final appositive relative clauses can become at issue, as wit...

There is an error in the fifth sentence of the first paragraph of the Results section. The correct sentence is: Pigeons and doves (Columbidae) sampled in this study were primarily parasitized byHaemoproteus parasites in the subgenus Haemoproteus (unpublished molecular analyses). However, one individual (African olive pigeon) was parasitized by a novelHaemoproteus lineage that was most closely r...

News on electrical bulletin boards consist of high density expressions. Many sentences end with unique expressions that consist of nouns and case particles. This paper focuses on expressions used at the end of sentences and attempts to summarize them by forming noun or case particle endings. We summarize the news sentence through pattern matching approach. Our evaluation illustrates that the su...

A stochastic approach to spoken sentence recognition is proposed for the purpose of an automatic voice-based dialogue system. Three main tasks are distinguished: word recognition, word chain filtering and sentence recognition. The first task is solved by typical acoustic processing followed by phonetic word recognition with the use of Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and Viterbi search. For the secon...

We investigate emotional effects on articulatory-acoustic speech characteristics with respect to word location within a sentence. We examined the hypothesis that emotional effect will vary based on word position by first examining articulatory features manually extracted from Electromagnetic articulography data. Initial articulatory data analyses indicated that the emotional effects on sentence...

In line bisection right-brain-damaged patients with left spatial neglect show a rightward deviation, with respect to the line's physical center. In word bisection ortho-phonological features of the stimulus' final (right-sided) part modulate performance of both patients and healthy participants (Veronelli, Vallar, Marinelli, Primativo, & Arduino, 2014). We investigated the role of linguistic fa...

Two studies explored whether sentence comprehension impairments in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are due to deficits in syntactic processing or memory. Study 1 used a picture-pointing sentence comprehension task to measure the final outcome of comprehension in an off-line fashion. It showed the comprehension of 30 patients with AD to be impaired, but suggested that the deficits could not be attribut...