Pre-Low Raising in Japanese Pitch Accent [PDF]
Japanese has been observed to have 2 versions of the H tone, the higher of which is associated with an accented mora. However, the distinction of these 2 versions only surfaces in context but not in isolation, leading to a long-standing debate over ...
Albert Lee, S. Prom-on, Yi Xu
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Tone from the Top in Risk Management: A Complementarity Perspective on How Control Systems Influence Risk Awareness [PDF]
Prompted by the weaknesses of standardized risk management approaches in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, scholars, regulators, and practitioners alike emphasize the importance of creating a risk-aware culture in organizations.
Braumann, Evelyn +2 more
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Syntactic and phonological phrasing in Bemba relatives [PDF]
Tone as a distinctive feature used to differentiate not only words but also clause types, is a characteristic feature of Bantu languages. In this paper we show that Bemba relatives can be marked with a low tone in place of a segmental relative marker ...
Cheng, L, Kula, NC
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Phonological and syntactic phrasing in Bemba relatives [PDF]
Tone as a distinctive feature used to differentiate not only words but also clause types, is a characteristic feature of Bantu languages. In this paper we show that Bemba relatives can be marked with a low tone in place of a segmental relative marker. We
Cheng Lisa L.-S. +9 more
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Effects of phonological phrasing on syntactic structure [PDF]
Bantu languages are renowned as tone languages that utilize this suprasegmental feature not only on the lexical level to distinguish lexical items, but also on the grammatical level to distinguish clause types.
Carolyn Harford +8 more
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Low Stretch Ventilation: Good for the Heart?
Clinicians have known the circulatory consequences of mechanical ventilation since patients were ventilated. By raising pressure in the chest, positive airway pressure reduces venous return and cardiac preload while it alters the afterload of both ...
M. Cereda, J. HorĂ¡k
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Infant Vagal Tone and Maternal Depressive Symptoms: A Bottom-Up Perspective
Children vary in their susceptibility to environmental exposures such as maternal depression, but little is known about how children shape those same environments.
J. Somers, Sarah G. Curci, L. Luecken
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Production and perception of tone 3 focus in Mandarin Chinese
This study uses production and perception experiments to explore tone 3 focus in Mandarin Chinese. Overall, contrastive focus in Mandarin is clearly marked with increased duration, intensity, and pitch range: in the experiments, listeners identified ...
Yong-cheol Lee, Ting Wang, Mark Liberman
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Raising the Tone?:The Impact of 'Positive' and 'Negative' Campaigning on Voting in the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election [PDF]
Most survey-based research on campaign effects in British elections has focussed on exposure to the campaign. Far less attention has been given to how the campaign is perceived, although American research on the effects of negativecampaigning suggests ...
Denver, D. +3 more
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Differential sensitivity of basal and acetylcholine-induced activity of nitric oxide to blockade by asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) in the rat aorta [PDF]
<b>Background and purpose</b>: Previous work has shown that NG-monomethyl-l-arginine (l-NMMA) paradoxically inhibits basal, but not ACh-stimulated activity of nitric oxide in rat aorta.
Archer +29 more
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