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Annual Report Readability, Tone Ambiguity, and the Cost of Borrowing
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2015 This paper investigates the impact of a firm’s annual report readability and ambiguous tone on its borrowing costs. We find that firms with larger 10-K file sizes and a higher proportion of uncertain and weak modal words in 10-Ks have stricter loan ...
Mine Ertugrul +3 more
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The borrowing of aspects as lexical tone classes Y-intial Tuareg verbs in Tasawaq
Studies in African Linguistics, 2007 In Tasawaq, a Northern Songhay language of Niger, there exists a lexical tone class distinction between stative and active verbs. This tone class distinction only exists in one class of verbs borrowed from Tuareg, verbs with an initial y-.
Maarten Kossmann
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A tonal split in bound argument pronouns in Il-keeknyokie Maa
Studies in African Linguistics, 2001 This paper describes and accounts for the tonal split between bound argument prefixes of Il-Keekonyokie Maa verbs with (apparently) High and Low tone. Data with the tonal split are given, followed by an analysis showing that the apparent High tone must ...
Kent Rasmussen
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Tone association and F₀ timing in Chichewa
Studies in African Linguistics, 1999 In Chichewa (Bantu, Malawi), a high tone is realized as a peak in fundamental frequency (fO). In this study, the timing of fO peaks relative to the duration of the high-toned syllable was measured for high tones in phrase-medial, -penultimate and -final ...
Scott Myers
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Phonetic and Phonological Effects of Depressor Consonants in Malawian CiTonga
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2022 In this paper we show that certain consonants have the effect of depressing the tone on adjacent vowels in Malawian CiTonga, a Bantu language spoken mainly in Nkhata Bay. We argue that some of these effects are phonological, changing High vowels to Low.
Winfred Mkochi +2 more
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Perspectives on the Pure-Tone Audiogram
Journal of american academy of audiology, 2017 Background: The pure-tone audiogram, though fundamental to audiology, presents limitations, especially in the case of central auditory involvement. Advances in auditory neuroscience underscore the considerably larger role of the central auditory nervous ...
F. Musiek +3 more
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The Study of Perceptual Training of Chinese Mandarin Tones for Monolingual Speakers of English Using Adaptive Computer Based Training Software [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The study explored a new technique of phonetic tone training, which may have a positive impact on second language learning and tone training.
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Identity and identification of Trogulus banaticus (Opiliones: Trogulidae) : a neglected species in the Northern Balkans [PDF]
, 2011 Trogulus banaticus Avram, 1971 is characterised and recorded as new for Slovenia. This species was previously mistaken for T. coriziformis C. L. Koch, 1839 and T. graecus Dahl, 1903 which were later rejected from the Slovenian fauna. T.
Novak, Tone, Schönhofer, Axel L.
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2008 This article provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the verbal tone system of Tura, a previously undocumented dialect of Luyia (Bantu, Kenya, J.30).
Michael R. Marlo
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Joint Multi-Scale Tone Mapping and Denoising for HDR Image Enhancement [PDF]
, 2023 An image processing unit (IPU), or image signal processor (ISP) for high dynamic range (HDR) imaging usually consists of demosaicing, white balancing, lens shading correction, color correction, denoising, and tone-mapping. Besides noise from the imaging sensors, almost every step in the ISP introduces or amplifies noise in different ways, and denoising
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