BACKGROUND overall voice and strain level analysis in rock singers. AIM to analyze the voice o rock singers according to two specific parameters: overall level of vocal deviation (OLVD) and strain level (SL); to compare these parameters in three different music samples. METHOD participants were 26 male rock singers, ranging in age from 17 to 46 years (mean = 29.8 years). All of the particip...

Huaibin Zheng, Yanpeng Zhang, Zhiqiang Nie, Changbiao Li, Hong Chang, Jianping Song, and Min Xiao Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lintong 710600, People’s Republic of China Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, ...

Earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. Apart from Mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, Taiwo (2007), Adetunji (2009), and Ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

The aim of this study was to find out whether listening to English songs can improve pre-intermediate EFL learners’ listening comprehension. To this end, a non-randomized pretest-posttest control group design as one of the quasi-experimental research designs was employed. The sample of the study consisted of 40 male and female English learners from two classes in an Institute in Marand, Iran. T...

Interventions in the extent and quality of portrayal characters dubbed musical films can induce a change original characterization film as play role singers who reflect their inner emotions thoughts through diegetic songs. To examine impact songs on singer’s characterization, study contains two main phases, theoretical empirical. Initially, development notions is illustrated to justify present ...

In this paper, an automatic method for Persian WordNet construction based on Prenceton WordNet 2.1 (PWN) is introduced. The proposed approach uses Persian and English corpora as well as a bilingual dictionary in order to make a mapping between PWN synsets and Persian words. Our method calculates a score for each candidate synset of a given Persian word and for each of its translation, it select...

aqu (大曲) was a genre of entertainment music popular in China from the Han dynasty to the Song dynasty. While da (大) in Chinese means large or great, qu (曲) means a song, or more generally, a piece of music. As its name implies, a daqu was always a long, multisectional piece of music performed in a grand style uniting singing of poetic verses, instrumental playing, and dancing together, and the ...