Although the field of sociolinguistics has witnessed a growing interest in the sociophonetic aspects of segmental and intonational variation, few studies have examined variation in voice quality. This paper addresses the gap by investigating the stylistic use of falsetto phonation. Focusing on the speech of Heath, a speaker exhibiting considerable cross-situational variation, I show that when a...

In this paper we present some preliminary results on the generation of word embeddings for the Italian language. We compare two popular word representation models, word2vec and GloVe, and train them on two datasets with different stylistic properties. We test the generated word embeddings on a word analogy test derived from the one originally proposed for word2vec, adapted to capture some of th...

The style in which a robot moves, including its gait or locomotion style, can project strong messages, for example, it can be easy to distinguish a happy dog from an aggressive dog simply by how it is moving, and one can often tell if a colleague is stressed simply by the way they are walking. Defining the real-time interactive, stylistic aspects of robotic movements via programming can be diff...

Some aspects of the manifestation national component in chamber and instrumental work Borys Lyatoshynsky are considered. It was discovered that formation genres became a creative laboratory for artist to practice basics his own method, with being one ofsuch foundations. is manifested at different levels composer’s musical concepts: ideological, stylistic, compositional, formative, genre, stylis...