Is speech rhythmic? In the absence of evidence for a traditional view that languages strive to coordinate either syllables or stress-feet with regular time intervals, we consider the alternative that languages exhibit contrastive rhythm subsisting merely in the alternation of stronger and weaker elements. This is initially plausible, particularly for languages with a steep 'prominence gradient'...

some literary texts seem being created on the threshold of two different movements, since they reflect the features of them both. some literary features are also common in two different literary movements and they can even be seen in the works belong to two different eras. the novel “asfār-e-kātebān” (books of scribers) is among the works which have lots of techniques and measures which are the...

Tho aim of this introductory s~tion is to set the context for Session 13: Prosody. It will do so by defining some basic terms, by considering the status of current research on prosody, and by outlining the papers in the session and how they contribute to and complement previous work in the area. Prosody, perceptually, can be thought of as the relative temporal groupings of words and the relativ...

narrative style is the main feature of mehdi akhavan sales (1928-1990), one of the famous contemporary persian poets. but what gives a special prominence to his narrative poems and makes it distinct from the works of other contemporary poets is his idiosyncratic use of narrative techniques and methods. he employed in his works the element of narration in a distinctive manner. although, the narr...

solar mini-dimmings can be detect in the extreme ultra-violet coronal eruptions. here, sequences of 171_a images taken by solar dynamic observatory/atmospheric imaging assembaly on 13 june 2010 are used. in this special day, both of coronal mass ejection and prominence were observed. the average velocities and accelerations of 500 mini-dimmings which were detected using on feature based classif...

Abstract The article investigates the hypothesis that prominence phenomena on different levels of linguistic structure are systematically related to each other. More specifically, it is hypothesized relations in morphosyntax reflect, and contribute to, management discourse. This empirically based phenomenon agentivity clines, i.e. observation relevance features such as volition or sentience var...

Correspondence: mjmsxjj@gmail. com School of Foreign Languages, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China Systemic Phonology: Recent Studies in English is an extremely timely addition to the literature of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Despite the importance of phonology to any general description of language, the editors note that this is the first collection focusing on phonolog...

Automatic transcription of prosody is necessary for spoken language understanding. Prominence and intonational boundaries are routinely used to convey meaning beyond that expressed in the lexical content of speech. Using a classiÞcation rule learning algorithm and computationally light acoustic and syntactic features, detection of pitch accent at 87% on spontaneous elicited speech were attained...