The paper presents the results of a corpus-based study of final lengthening in Russian. The Corpus of Russian Professionally Read Speech (CORPRES) was used to investigate the degree of word and vowel lengthening as a function of prosodic factors, including prosodic boundary type and phrase or utterance pitch pattern. The results show that the degree of both word and vowel lengthening depends on...

This paper examines the status of language-specific systematic detail in the realisation of phonology and proposes the formalisation of this detail as a set of phonetic motifs. It is argued that such motifs form a key component of phonological (linguistic) knowledge and may shape the language-specific emergence of phonological structure, as illustrated by a case study of consonant gemination. I...

This paper presents an aggregation approach of similarity measures for ontology matching called n-Harmony. The n-Harmony measure identifies top-n highest values in each similarity matrix to assign a weight to the corresponding similarity measure for aggregation. We can also exclude noisy similarity measures that have a low weight and the n-Harmony outperforms previous methods in our experimenta...

Harmony search algorithm is a meta-heuristic optimization method imitating the music improvisation process, where musicians improvise their instruments’ pitches searching for a perfect state of harmony. First, an improved harmony search algorithm is presented using the concept of swarm intelligence. Next, it is employed for training feedforward neural networks for three benchmark classification...

We, in 1956 the Department of Architecture at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, decided to start an extensive color harmony experiment. The experimental work, the collation, and processing of the collected data, lasting 50 years, was completed in 2006. The experiments described in this article are based on earlier experimental results obtained from investigation into the harm...

in this article, the low back vowel /a/ in word-final positions in eghlidian dialect, one of persian dialects, is studied. this vowel is represented phonetically as [a], [o] and [@] in different phonetic environments. therefore many words were collected via interviewing ten native speakers so that these different alternant forms can be accounted for appropriately. since one of the authors of th...

In most patterns of harmony and assimilation, a single segment triggers harmony to the left or right, until the end of the word or until some intervening blocker. Here, I classify the new subpattern of trigger-based count effects, in which multiple triggers are needed to induce harmony. For example, nasal assimilation in Kazakh requires two triggers: the onset of a suffix assimilates to a nasal...

Article history: Received 3 September 2011 Received in revised form 9 December 2012 Accepted 31 December 2012 Available online 16 January 2013

This paper presents an exploratory investigation of the Manufacturing/Marketing (hereafter M/M) interface. From the literature and prior empirical work in M/M strategies, we propose a path model for assessing the mediating impact of the M/M interface harmony on M/M morale and business performance. Using two convenience samples of executives, we empirically test the direct and indirect influence...