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The influence of informativeness on the prosody of sentence topics

Glossa, 2021
In a production experiment on German we investigated the prosodic effects of informativeness (comprising information status and contrast) on sentence-initial referents, i.e. sentence topics.
Jane Mertens, Janina Kalbertodt, Stefan Baumann   +2 more
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“We Cannot Talk as a Family”: Complexities of Survivorship Communication Among Hispanic/Latino Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer, Parents, and Clinicians

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Young adult childhood cancer survivors (YA‐CCS) have an increased risk of treatment‐related health complications throughout their lives. Lifelong survivorship care is recommended, yet many YA‐CCS experience disruptions in care during pediatric‐to‐adult transitions and do not receive recommended survivorship care.
Kevin Shanchen Pu, Nicole Fernández‐Viña, Briana C. Martin‐Villa, Daniela Ramirez, Rebecca M. Lewinsohn, Mary Smith, Heidi Boynton, Lidia Schapira, Stephanie M. Smith   +8 more
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Stressed Clitic Pronouns in Two Spanish Varieties: A perception study

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019
Clitic elements are prosodically attached to another phonological word. As such, they do not carry their own stress. In general, Spanish non-prepositional object pronouns (e.g.
Laura Colantoni, Jose-Ignacio Hualde, Ane Icardo Isasi   +2 more
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Givenness and Stress Rejection

Languages, 2022
This paper addresses the impact of givenness on phrasal stress assignment in German. It has been observed for English that nuclear stress is rejected on given elements that are part of the focused material if another focused word is available to bear ...
Fabian Schubö
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Classical Complement Pathway Inhibition in a Pediatric Patient With Refractory Immune Thrombocytopenia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric refractory immune thrombocytopenia (rITP) is generally characterized by persistent thrombocytopenia and failure to achieve a sustained response to multiple standard therapies. We report a 4‐year‐old female with congenital tufting enteropathy, post‐intestinal transplant patient on immunosuppressants, who developed severe rITP ...
Sarah Hsieh, Susmita Sarangi, Caileigh Pudela, Catherine M. Broome, Tara K. Suntum   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphor forces argument overtness

Linguistics
This paper uncovers how metaphor forces argument overtness – across languages and parts of speech. It addresses the relationship between semantically unsaturated terms, functors, and the argument terms that complete them.
Reinöhl Uta, Ellison T. Mark
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Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language

Language and Cognition
Prosody and gesture are two known cues for expressing information structure by emphasising new or important elements in spoken discourse while attenuating given information.
Florence Baills, Stefan Baumann
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A Bayesian Approach to German Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
When faced with an ambiguous pronoun, an addressee must interpret it by identifying a suitable referent. It has been proposed that the interpretation of pronouns can be captured using Bayes’ Rule: P(referent|pronoun) ∝ P(pronoun|referent)P(referent ...
Clare Patterson, Petra B. Schumacher, Bruno Nicenboim, Johannes Hagen, Andrew Kehler   +4 more
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Degradation mechanism of the von Willebrand factor A2 domain by nattokinase

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Nattokinase, a natto‐derived protease, exhibits potent antithrombotic effects. This study demonstrates that nattokinase directly cleaves the von Willebrand factor (vWF) A2 domain in vitro. Unlike the native regulator ADAMTS13, nattokinase degrades folded vWF independently of shear stress.
Ryuichi Hyakumoto, Masatomo So, Ayako Furukawa, Kenji Sugase   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information Structure and Word Order Canonicity in the Comprehension of Spanish Texts: An Eye-Tracking Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Word order alternation has been described as one of the most productive information structure markers and discourse organizers across languages. Psycholinguistic evidence has shown that word order is a crucial cue for argument interpretation.
Carolina A. Gattei, Carolina A. Gattei, Carolina A. Gattei, Luis A. París, Diego E. Shalom   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source