Although the field of sociolinguistics has witnessed a growing interest in the sociophonetic aspects of segmental and intonational variation, few studies have examined variation in voice quality. This paper addresses the gap by investigating the stylistic use of falsetto phonation. Focusing on the speech of Heath, a speaker exhibiting considerable cross-situational variation, I show that when a...

Political discourse is characterized by stylistic and rhetorical features that distinguish it from other text genres. When a feature such as parallelism used frequently in Arabic political speeches, becomes significant to highlight the fact this recurrence of structure deliberate. According Islam Cahyani (2020: 273): (T)he deliberate use word or phrase more than once sentence create sense patte...

S ome forty years ago, Mosteller and Wallace suggested in their influential work on the Federalist Papers that a small number of the most frequent words in a language ('function words') could usefully serve as indicators of authorial style. The decades since have seen this work taken up in many ways including both the use of new analysis techniques (discriminant analysis, PCA, neural networks, ...

A qualitative study to investigate the development of style in performance with a highly constrained musical instrument is described. A new one-button instrument was designed, with which several musicians were each asked to practice and develop a solo performance. Observations of trends in attributes of these performances are detailed in relation to participants’ statements in structured interv...

In this paper we present some preliminary results on the generation of word embeddings for the Italian language. We compare two popular word representation models, word2vec and GloVe, and train them on two datasets with different stylistic properties. We test the generated word embeddings on a word analogy test derived from the one originally proposed for word2vec, adapted to capture some of th...

The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992b) has been criticized for the absence of validity scales designed to detect response distortion. Recently, validity scales were developed from the items of the NEO-PI-R (Schinka, Kinder, & Kremer, 1997) and several studies have used a variety of methods to test their use. However, it is controversial whether these scales are ...

This study explored patterns of consistency and change in maternal reminiscing style across conversations with different children in the same family. Twenty-three White, middle-class mothers engaged in separate memory conversations with their younger (M age = 40 months) and older (M age = 68 months) children. Mothers evidenced striking stylistic consistency. Analyses of bidirectional relations ...

The style in which a robot moves, including its gait or locomotion style, can project strong messages, for example, it can be easy to distinguish a happy dog from an aggressive dog simply by how it is moving, and one can often tell if a colleague is stressed simply by the way they are walking. Defining the real-time interactive, stylistic aspects of robotic movements via programming can be diff...