It holds true that a flourishing fieldof Contrastive Rhetoric (CR) research has begun to address theway various text types and/or genres may differ across culturesand languages (Corner, 1996).  Very much in line withthis development, this study was an attempt to characterizethe linguistic structures of headlines in the sports section of 2 English newspapers: one non-Iranian (The Times) and one ...

Attempts to profile authors based on their characteristics, including native language, have drawn attention in recent years, via several approaches using machine learning with simple features. In this paper we investigate the potential usefulness to this task of contrastive analysis from second language acquistion research, which postulates that the (syntactic) errors in a text are influenced b...

This article deals with the issue of dialogue as a speech genre and  component dramatic text. Because being limited, only contrastive analysis first stage expository dialogue  original and translated texts “Hamlet” is conducted in this article. The exposition ‘Hamlet’ consists two different but interrelated stages – at presented  conversation between Hamlet his friends within sec...

This pape.r shows that contrastive Hebbian, the algorithm used in mean field learning, can be applied to any continuous Hopfield model. This implies that non-logistic activation functions as well as self connections are allowed. Contrary to previous approaches, the learning algorithm is derived without considering it a mean field approximation to Boltzmann machine learning. The paper includes a...

Phonological neighborhood density (ND) conditions variation in a number of acoustic phonetic properties of words. For example, previous research has shown greater hyperarticulation and greater nasal coarticulation in high-ND English words than in low-ND words. Here, we investigate the effects of ND on vowel hyperarticulation and vowel nasality (coarticulatory and contrastive) in French. Acousti...

This study aims at determining whether there are visual cues to contrastive focus in French. An audiovisual corpus was recorded from a male native speaker of French consisting of sentences with a subject-verb-object (SVO) syntactic structure. Four conditions were studied: focus on each phrase (S,V,O) and broad focus. The corpus was first acoustically validated: the pitch maximum over the uttera...

This article reports on a study investigating the intonational realization of context-changing and context-preserving contrastive topics in German. Results of the pilot study show that both kinds of topics can be marked by different pitch accents on the topic constituent, although speakerspecific differences emerge. When speakers do use different pitch accents, low rises (L*H) exclusively occur...

This study investigates the phonetics of German nuclear rise-fall contours in relation to contexts that trigger either a contrastive or a non-contrastive interpretation in the answer. A rise-fall contour can be conceived of a tonal sequence of L-H-L. A production study elicited target sentences in contrastive and non-contrastive contexts. The majority of cases realized showed a nuclear rise-fal...