The results of a production experiment with 8 native speakers of German show that the acoustic profiles of contrastive focus differ between read monologues, read dialogues and spontaneous dialogues. The differences suggest that contrastive focus is only a matter of F0, and that two F0-related subtypes, comparative and corrective focus, may be distinguished. The additional changes in duration an...

In this paper, we investigate segmental prolongation in a corpus of spontaneous Japanese monologues consisting of over 700,000 words. We examine effects on the rate of prolongation of various factors including speech types, the genders of speakers, word classes, word positions in the phrase and in the inter-pausal unit, and the presence of preceding fillers. Based on the empirical findings, we ...

B ack lash I'rom The V ag ina Monologues dominated discussion at the Campus Life Council meeting Monday, a topic that sparked ques­ tio ns abou t the g ro u p ’s o ve ra ll ability to make an impact on cam­ pus. In response to the re so lu tio n passed in support o f V-Day and The Vagina Monologues at the Feb. 14 CLC m e e tin g , F a th e r M ark B oorm an, v ice p re s id e n t fo r Student A...

This paper presents the Dial-Your-Disc (dyd) system, an interactive system that supports browsing through a large database of musical information and generates a spoken monologue once a musical composition has been selected. The paper focuses on the generation of spoken monologues and, more speciically, on the various ways in which the generation of an utterance at a given point in the monologu...

This paper addresses the issue of designing embodied conversational agents that exhibit appropriate posture shifts during dialogues with human users. Previous research has noted the importance of hand gestures, eye gaze and head nods in conversations between embodied agents and humans. We present an analysis of human monologues and dialogues that suggests that postural shifts can be predicted a...

Abstract Israeli legal feminists have largely overlooked the constitutive theoretical developments that introduced “third wave” to global feminism. Drawing on critical insights of black and postcolonial feminist discourse, this Article introduces Mizrahi feminism jurisprudence. It aims lay groundwork for a new school scholarship in Israel expose multidimensional oppression endured by women law ...

' of military service, his long series ; of prison sentences, interspersed ; with chaotic liaisons with women, r his virtual unemployability, inability to make lasting relationships, and finally his death at 40 as a result of swallowing pins?but not before he had achieved some notoriety through a series of autobiographical monologues on the B.B.C. Third Programme. Although the story reaches poi...