It is acknowledged that contrast plays an important role in understanding discourse and information structure. While it is commonly assumed that contrast can be marked by intonation only, our understanding of the intonational realization of contrast is limited. For German there is mainly introspective evidence that the rising theme accent (or topic accent) is realized differently when signaling...

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...

Combining information from adjectives with the nouns they modify is essential for comprehension. Previous research suggests that preschoolers do not always integrate and nouns, may instead over-rely on noun when processing referring expressions (Fernald, Thorpe, & Marchman, 2010; Baumgartner, Fernald, 2006). This disjointed has implications pragmatics, apparently preventing under-fives making c...

The effects of pitch accenting on memory were investigated in three experiments. Participants listened to short recorded discourses that contained contrast sets with two items (e.g. British scientists and French scientists); a continuation specified one item from the set. Pitch accenting on the critical word in the continuation was manipulated between non-contrastive (H* in the ToBI system) and...

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In this paper, I outline an account of the structure perceptual justification that develops Wittgenstein's thought possibility acquiring any degree for our beliefs depends on placing certain propositions outside route empirical inquiry, turning them into “hinges” rational evaluations. The proposal is akin to “moderate” accounts justification; however, it conjoins insight with explanationist and...

The development of unsupervised hashing is advanced by the recent popular contrastive learning paradigm. However, previous learning-based works have been hampered (1) insufficient data similarity mining based on global-only image representations, and (2) hash code semantic loss caused augmentation. In this paper, we propose a novel method, namely Weighted Contrative Hashing (WCH), to take step ...