Seventeen speakers of Standard Dutch participated in a production experiment that investigated the effects of focus condition (broad, narrow, corrective focus) on the prosodic realization of nuclear accented words in declarative sentences. It was found that focus has an effect on the duration of onset and coda of the nuclear accented syllable as well as on the timing, scaling, and slope of f0 t...

This paper presents a production study of declarative responses in varying dialogue contexts. The goal was to determine what sort of dialogue conditions produce systematic variations in prosody, and what these variations mean for discourse interpretation. After controlling for information structural factors, we found that distinct prosodic forms were predictably and consistently elicited by var...

Whereas the logistic curve can be used to model the increase in the percentage of periphrastic do in several types of English sentences, a different fit to the data for affirmative declaratives is needed. Two possible fits are considered in this paper, both based on a generalized logistic differential equation with a time-dependent coefficient. Linear and piecewise constant coefficients are use...

this article is concerned with the question of how much the assured will be entitled to recover following an assured loss. it will be discussed which three elements are involved in this respect; first the loss of assured, second the amount of assuror obligation and third the contractual agreements of the parties in respect of the amount of assuror's payment.it should be noted that franchis...

This research aimed to describe and classify types of illocutionary acts found in Lara Jean's utterances To All the Boys movie trilogy including I’ve Loved Before (2018), P.S I Still Love You (2020), Always Forever (2021). The method used this was descriptive qualitative research, where primary data were form transcripts utterances. elicited through documentation, namely gathering identifying l...