Semantic roles are an important piece of information in sentence interpretation. While role-related effects comprehension well established, the definition and structure such as agent still controversially debated. One open question pertains to whether there is a general advantage for prototypical or atypical agents flexibly privileged depending on discourse function syntactic construction they ...

Previous phonetic studies of metrical prominence have primarily focused on its acoustic manifestations, including pitch, intensity, duration, spectral tilt, etc. In this paper we outline our new research program in which we explore jaw displacement patterns as another articulatory reflex of metrical prominence. We present our studies of English and Japanese in some detail, which show that jaw m...

Beginning with the observation that syntactic and semantic information often coincide (i.e., subjects are often agents, objects often patients), this study investigates the possibility that preference to resolve a sentence-initial pronoun to a syntactically prominent antecedent might actually be better explained in terms of preference for resolving to a semantically prominent antecedent. The st...

An enormous solar tornado was observed by SDO/AIA on 25 September 2011. It was mainly associated with a quiescent prominence with an overlying coronal cavity. We investigate the triggering mechanism of the solar tornado by using the data from two instruments: SDO/AIA and STEREO-A/EUVI, covering the Sun from two directions. The tornado appeared near to the active region NOAA 11303 that produced ...

The simulations reported in this Note cover the cases of both prominence (i.e., off-limb) and filament (i.e., on-disk) observations. The various plots illustrate the statistics of the inversion of the magnetic topology—field strength (B), LOS inclination (ΘB), and POS direction (ΦB)— from different sets of 2700 synthetic observations, in the form of error scatter plots (top panels) and error hi...

Detection of prominence, whether automatically or manually through perception tests, is pivotal in the interpretation of data in a prosodic theoretical framework. This is particularly true for French, where phonologically stressable syllables are not necessarily stressed. To assert a prominence character to syllables is mandatory to evaluate prosodic theories, especially those which predict the...

Why do well-known ideas, practices, and people maintain their cultural prominence in the presence of equally good or better alternatives? This article suggests that a social-psychological process whereby people seek to establish common ground with their conversation partners causes familiar elements of culture to increase in prominence, independently of performance or quality. Two studies teste...

In sign language research, technically it has been possible to investigate prominence around a unit of sign movements that realizes strong visual impression. Based on the researches of speech prominence, this study proposes techniques to delimit a sequential hand-movement into small units, and investigates the prominence by the comparisons of physical properties on each unit between emphasized ...

The interaction between two side-by-side solar prominence-like plasmas has been studied using a four-electrode magnetized plasma source that can impose a wide variety of surface boundary conditions. When the source is arranged to create two prominences with the same helicity ~co-helicity!, it is observed that helicity transfer from one prominence to the other causes the receiving prominence to ...