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Tempo and affect in the Linguistic Landscape

Linguistic Landscape. An international journal, 2020
Abstract While the role of time and emotion have been acknowledged in linguistic and semiotic landscapes research, the particular qualities of tempo and affect have rarely been discussed directly. This case study from an Italian-American festival in South Philadelphia, a diverse and changing urban
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Linguistic experience affects pronoun interpretation

Journal of Memory and Language, 2018
Abstract We test the hypothesis that language experience influences the cognitive mechanisms used to interpret ambiguous pronouns like he or she, which require the context for interpretation. Pronoun interpretation is influenced by both the linguistic context (e.g., pronouns tend to corefer with the subject of the previous sentence) and social cues ...
Rebecca Nappa   +4 more
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Cognitive and linguistic factors affect visual feature integration [PDF]

open access: possibleCognitive Psychology, 1984
Five experiments investigated the influence of cognitive and linguistic factors on the integration of color and letter-shape information. Subjects were briefly presented strings of colored letters that varied in pronounceability and familiarity. Detection and search tasks required subjects to identify the color of predesignated target letters.
William Prinzmetal   +1 more
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Linguistic dimensions of affect and thought in somatization disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1985
DSM-III has established diagnostic criteria that separate somatization disorder from other overlapping symptom configurations. Nevertheless, information regarding the experience of somatization disorder is far from complete. Terms such as "masked depression" or "alexithymia" imply that a disturbance of affect is a central but guarded issue for at least
Gary J. Tucker   +3 more
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Subtle Linguistic Cues Affect Children's Motivation

Psychological Science, 2007
Are preschoolers’ reactions to setbacks influenced by whether their successes are rewarded with generic or nongeneric praise? Previous research has focused on the role of category-referring generics (e.g., ‘‘Dogs are friendly’’) in shaping children’s knowledge about natural kinds (see Gelman, 2004).
Holly Marie C. Arce   +3 more
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Affective and psycholinguistic norms of Greek words: Manipulating their affective or psycho-linguistic dimensions

Current Psychology, 2021
The present study presents a standardized database of 348 affective in the Greek language, including pleasant and unpleasant nouns and adjectives, and neutral adjectives in Greek language. The norms are based on the ratings made by 229 native Greek speaking young adults on affective (emotionality, valence, arousal, dominance) and psycho-linguistic ...
Potheini Vaiouli   +2 more
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Decomposing linguistic and affective components of phonatory quality

Interspeech 2004, 2004
This paper is concerned with the role of phonatory quality in signalling affect. An overview of perception experiments is presented, which used synthetic stimuli with different phonatory qualities and f 0 contours in order to explore the mapping of voice quality to affect as well as the way in which voice quality combines with f 0.
Ailbhe Ní Chasaide, Christer Gobl
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The interaction of linguistic and affective prosody in a tone language

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006
To address how a common set of acoustic properties of speech prosody modulate to convey linguistic and affective meanings concurrently, this study investigated the influence of phonemic tones on the expression of emotion (happy, sad, angry) and linguistic modality (declarative, interrogative) in a tone language, Punjabi.
Marc D. Pell, Chinar Dara
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The effect of spectral manipulations on the identification of affective and linguistic prosody

Brain and Language, 2003
We investigated the effect of various spectral manipulations on the identification of sentential prosody. Two main categories of prosody--affective (happy, angry, sad) and linguistic (statement, question, continuation)--were studied. Thirty-six subjects were presented with stimuli that were recorded by a female native speaker of American English.
John F. Houde   +5 more
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Environmental factors affect the evolution of linguistic subgroups in Borneo

2021
This study investigates the relatedness and history of the Austronesian languages of Borneo, which is the third largest island in the world and home to significant linguistic diversity. We apply Bayesian phylogenetic dating methods to lexical cognate data based on four historical calibration points to infer a dated phylogeny of 87 languages.
Rama, Taraka, Smith, Alex
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