bostan ol-arefin va tohfat ol-moridin is one of the mystical prose texts of the khorasan area in the fifth century a.h. among the many persian literary texts, it is considered as a precious ancient source for many of the anecdotes, miracles and sayings of the sufis. furthermore, the linguistic features of this book such as numerous special vocabularies, stylistic aspects and prose similar to th...

this paper is intended to explain the difference between rhyme of the qur'anic text (fāsila) and rhythmic prose (saj‘). according to the earlier scholars, fāsila signifies the last word of the qur'anic verse and saj‘ is the agreement of the final words in prose which rhyme the same, at least in the final letter. besides giving a definition of saj‘ and fāṣila, this research touches upon the view...

We are witnessing the emergence of a new technology for dynamically creating stories tailored to the interests of particular readers. Narrative prose generators o er much promise for literacy education, but designing them for maximal e ectiveness requires us to understand their e ect on readers. This article describes the evaluation of StoryBook, an implemented narrative prose generation system...

Chinese prose characterizes being formally-loose and essence-focused with features such as many a free style and myriads of assorted contents, among which the poetic images and artistic conceptions are so distinct that they are usually regarded as criteria for measuring its excellence. Whereas, it is the same features that impose obstacles for the prose translation, for it is difficult for the ...

The purpose of this explorative study was to examine vergence eye movements during fixations in reading. Eye movements of twelve normal adults were assessed during reading of different materials, that is, words within context (prose passages) and words without context (word lists), as well as during different tasks, that is, reading while attending to the meaning and reading while attending to ...

In this paper, we propose a system for synthesizing the human singing voice and the musical subtleties that accompany it. The system, Lyricos, employs a concatenation-based text-to-speech method to synthesize arbitrary lyrics in a given language. Using information contained in a regular MIDI le, the system chooses units, represented as sinusoidal waveform model parameters, from an inventory of ...

In this paper, we propose a system for synthesizing the human singing voice and the musical subtleties that accompany it. The system, Lyricos, employs a concatenation-based text-to-speech method to synthesize arbitrary lyrics in a given language. Using information contained in a regular MIDI le, the system chooses units, represented as sinusoidal wave-form model parameters, from an inventory of...