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