The paper reports on a web-based perception experiment investigating the perceptual prominence of seven attested nuclear pitch accent types plus deaccentuation in German. Unlike previous studies which link prominence judgments of accents to aspects of intonational meaning, the present study directly asks for the perceived degree of prosodic prominence. Results reveal gradual differences between...

The present paper examines stylistic change in musical history by comparing the treatment of same motif, ill-starred lovers, a romantic piece, Wieniawski’s Legende, Op. 17, and post-Wagnerian composition George Enescu: Strigoii (The Undead) Oratory, setting to music Eminescu’s homonymous legend, which its turn, draws on Bidu’s Tower legend. Whereas Wieniawski was writing grieving soul’s complai...

Although many studies have documented the effect of glaciation on the evolutionary history of Northern Hemisphere flora and fauna, this study is the first to investigate how the indirect aridification of Africa caused by global cooling in response to glacial cycles at higher latitudes has influenced the evolutionary history of an African montane bird. Mitochondrial DNA sequences from the NADH 3...