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The Prominence Value of the Temporal Anchor of Free Indirect Discourse: A Comparison with the Perspectival Center

open access: yesDiscours, 2020
Free indirect discourse (FID) is a kind of speech or thought representation that lacks specific marking. The entity to whom the speech or thought is attributed (the perspectival center) has been shown to be a contextually available prominent protagonist (
Jakob Egetenmeyer
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A prominence eruption from the Sun to the Parker Solar Probe with multi-spacecraft observations

open access: yesFrontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2023
In the early hours of 2021 April 25, the Solar Probe Cup on board Parker Solar Probe registered the passage of a solar wind structure characterized by a clear and constant He2+/H+ density ratio above 6% during three hours.
Tatiana Niembro   +12 more
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Heterogeneity in the Global Practice of Central Nervous System Staging in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is assessed by cell counting and cytomorphology from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and is used for treatment stratification worldwide. The ratio of “CNS2” patients in clinical trials ranges from 3% to 40%, with unclear prognostic significance ...
Laura Almási   +14 more
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Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language

open access: yesLanguage 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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An experimental investigation of the interaction of narrators’ and protagonists’ perspectival prominence in narrative texts

open access: yesZeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2023
In this paper, we present the results of an experiment investigating the effect of different narrative situations on the availability of locally prominent protagonists as anchor for Free Indirect Discourse (FID).
Saure Christopher   +2 more
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Prediction of word prominence

open access: yes5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1997), 1997
Control of prosody is essential for the synthesis of natural sounding speech. Text-to-speech systems tend to accent too many words when taking into account only the distinction between open-class and closed-class words. In the prominence-based approach [1], the degree of accentuation of a syllable is described in terms of a gradual prominence parameter.
Widera, Christina   +2 more
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Efficacy and Safety Analysis of Roxarestat in Regulating Renal Anemia in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
wiley   +1 more source

A corpus study of word (root) prominence in Vera'a [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This study presents an acoustic investigation of word level prosody in the Oceanic language Vera'a. The analysis is based on a corpus of speech data collected during fieldwork from multiple speakers. A previous description of Vera'a suggests the language
Schnell, Stefan; https://orcid.org/   +1 more
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Metaphor forces argument overtness

open access: yesLinguistics
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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Response to Fred Cummins: Looking for Rhythm in Speech

open access: yesEmpirical Musicology Review, 2012
This commentary briefly reviews three aspects of rhythm in speech. The first concerns the issues of what to measure and how measurements should relate to rhythm's communicative functions.
David House
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