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Comprehension of implied meaning in Chinese second language listening

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract Listening comprehension is crucial for second language (L2) communication and acquisition. However, it has received less attention than reading, given the transient nature of speech signals and the intangible cognitive processes involved in it.
Jiafan Zhang, Wei Cai
wiley   +1 more source

Straight force five [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
An original Jazz/World Music Composition. Straight Force Five is a Jazz/World Music fusion modal composition with an AABA structure based on a D Dorian tonality for each A section and an E Flat Dorian tonality for the B section. The time signatures move
O'Donnell, Paul
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Wrestling Voices: Amplifying Patriotism and Ethnic Stereotypes in 1980s American Professional Wrestling

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
wiley   +1 more source

An overview of the advantages and limitations of Simon's Theorie der Tonfelder in the analysis of the highly chromatic segments of the nineteenth-century repertoire [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Akademije Umetnosti
Theorists and analysts have approached the tonal repertoire using various methodologies, from "traditional" harmonic analysis through Schenkerian reductionism to NEO-Riemannian transformational notions.
Komatović Nikola
doaj   +1 more source

Methodological considerations concerning manual annotation of musical audio in function of algorithm development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In research on musical audio-mining, annotated music databases are needed which allow the development of computational tools that extract from the musical audiostream the kind of high-level content that users can deal with in Music Information Retrieval (
De Baets, Bernard   +3 more
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Making with the Trouble: Un/Enfolding Posthuman Participants with Young People in Creative Post‐Qualitative Research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores how ‘what matters’ can surface in multisensory arts‐informed projects as ways for young people to survive and stay with gender and sexuality troubles that are always more than theirs. Situated in an ex‐mining post‐industrial locale, we make an agential cut in a longitudinal research and engagement project called Unboxing ...
EJ Renold
wiley   +1 more source

Big Data, Big Questions: A Closer Look at the Yale–Classical Archives Corpus (c. 2015)

open access: yesEmpirical Musicology Review, 2016
This paper responds to the article by Christopher White and Ian Quinn, in which these authors introduce the Yale-Classical Archives Corpus (YCAC). I begin by making some general observations about the corpus, especially with regard to ramifications of ...
Trevor deClerq
doaj   +1 more source

Incorporating characteristics of human creativity into an evolutionary art algorithm (journal article) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A perceived limitation of evolutionary art and design algorithms is that they rely on human intervention; the artist selects the most aesthetically pleasing variants of one generation to produce the next.
DiPaola, Dr. Steven   +1 more
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‘I Don't Want Another Five Years of “The Only Thing We Talk About Is Brexit”’: The Dynamics of EU (De)politicisation in Post‐Brexit Britain

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2016 Brexit referendum was a watershed moment for the politicisation of the European Union (EU) in the United Kingdom. Much has been written about the politicising effects of the referendum, along with the Leave result's subsequent contestation in the media as well as in national and European election cycles.
Anne‐Marie Houde, Louis Stockwell
wiley   +1 more source

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