PURPOSE To investigate the perception and production of lexical stress and processing of affective prosody in adolescents with high-functioning autism (HFA). We hypothesized preserved processing of lexical and affective prosody but atypical lexical prosody production. METHOD Sixteen children with HFA and 15 typically developing (TD) peers participated in 3 experiments that examined the follow...

background: nurse educators have an important role in clinical learning that can reduce nursing students' stress. however,   a few studies have been conducted on the relationship between nursing students’ tension and clinical educators 'role in such situations, in iran. the aim of this study is to determine the relationship between nursing students’ stress and perception of nurse educ...

Abiotic stress factors [such as salinity, water availability (less or excess water), temperature extremes (freezing, cold, or high), metal/metalloids, nutrient stress, etc.] are basically severe menaces to the global agriculture, restricting the crop plants from reaching their full genetic potential and causing significant yield losses worldwide. In general, stresses are complex and multigenic ...

We investigated whether seeing a pointing gesture influences the perceived lexical stress. A pitch contour continuum between the Dutch words “CAnon” (‘canon’) and “kaNON” (‘cannon’) was presented along with a pointing gesture during the first or the second syllable. Pointing gestures following natural recordings but not Gaussian functions influenced stress perception (Experiment 1 and 2), espec...

The present concept of stress is related with the necessity of triangulation in research. Triangulation means collecting evidence of stress from at least three sources: (a) precursors--perception and feeling (moderating factors), (b) direct consequences, (c) state of health. Is it possible to implement triangulation in the investigations of work-related stress at sea? In the present paper, poss...

The paper focuses on the analysis of the stability of stress perception at the word level by using a large amount of corpus data, and tries to expand research on disyllabic stress patterns in continuous speech. The results show that: a) Only a small part of words have the stable stress patterns. These words appear more than three times in the corpus and get the full agreement among all annotato...

Three categorization experiments investigated whether the speaking rate of a preceding sentence influences durational cues to the perception of suprasegmental lexical-stress patterns. Dutch two-syllable word fragments had to be judged as coming from one of two longer words that matched the fragment segmentally but differed in lexical stress placement. Word pairs contrasted primary stress on eit...