Rhythm is expressed by recurring, hence predictable beat patterns. Poetry in many languages is composed with attention to poetic meters while prose is not. Therefore, one way to investigate speech rhythm is to evaluate how prose reading differs from poetry reading via a quantitative method that measures predictability. We use linear regression to predict the acoustic properties of segments from...

OpenMP [1] is an important API for shared memory programming, combining shared memory’s potential for performance with a simple programming interface. Unfortunately, OpenMP lacks a critical tool for demonstrating whether programs are correct: a formal memory model. Instead, the current official definition of the OpenMP memory model (the OpenMP 2.5 specification [1]) is in terms of informal pros...

Philologist: I need to parse Old French texts of different types (verse, prose, dialects etc.). Do I have to train separate parser models? Computational Linguist: You won’t lose much if you train the parser on all the data you have. P: I can’t do the training myself. What can I expect from existing parser models? C: If the training corpus contained 12th century verse texts, you are best prepare...

We describe the development of an abbreviated version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) to measure patients' ability to read and understand health-related materials. The TOFHLA was reduced from 17 Numeracy items and 3 prose passages to 4 Numeracy items and 2 prose passages (S-TOFHLA). The maximum time for administration was reduced from 22 minutes to 12. In a group of...

in present research, four of qajar prose works were initially selected as following: nasekh al-tavarikh of muhammad taghi lesan al-molk sepehr, masalek al-mohsenin of ‘abd al-rahim tabrizi, majma’ al-fosaha of reza gholi khan hedayat, and hezar-o-yek shab translated by ‘abd al-latif tasuji tabrizi. their most important writing and editing errors such as verbs, plural signs, words and structures...

Critical, or scale independent, systems are so ubiquitous, that gaining theoretical insights on their nature and properties has many direct repercussions in social and natural sciences. In this report, we start from the simplest possible growth model for critical systems and deduce constraints in their growth : the well-known preferential attachment principle, and, mainly, a new law of temporal...

There exist debates about “poetry” and “prose” styles in the translations of Shakespeare’s works continuously, there are circumstances one sticking to its own style, partializing belittling other. The “verse” school Shakespeare translation maintains that original plays verse, unique 16th 17th-century English poetic dramas (blank verse), which does not rhyme but has a distinct rhythm different f...

‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’: T. S. Eliot’s metaphor in The Waste Land evokes the evanescent frailty of human existence and worldly endeavour with a poignancy that the Anglo-Saxons would surely have appreciated. Such a concept lies at the heart of Boethius’s De consolatione Philosophiae, and perhaps prompted King Alfred to include this work amongst those which he considered ...