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A spin to preserve contrast: Taiwanese tone sandhi
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2020 Chain-shifts, particularly circular ones such as the tone sandhi of Taiwanese Min has been a longstanding challenge to which phonologists of various persuasions have attempted. This paper appeals to markedness against contour tones in non-final positions
Wee, Lian-Hee
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Movement and personality development [PDF]
Национальный психологический журнал, 2017 The paper discusses the role of the movement in the process of shaping the personality, its importance as a mechanism for personality development is considered. The issue of the movement has always occupied a central place in Russian psychology. However,
Aida M. Aylamazyan
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The phonological status of Low tones in Shanghai tone sandhi
Language and Linguistics. 語言暨語言學, 2022 AbstractIn Shanghai tone sandhi, with the exception of T5 (yangru) sandhi, a pitch-fall occurs at the second or third syllable of a phonological word (or a sandhi domain). Previous analyses argue that this is invoked by the insertion of a default Low tone to satisfy the Well-formedness Condition of the autosegmental theory. However, in the framework of
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Analysis of Manual and Automated Skin Tone Assignments for Face Recognition Applications [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 News reports have suggested that darker skin tone causes an increase in face recognition errors. The Fitzpatrick scale is widely used in dermatology to classify sensitivity to sun exposure and skin tone. In this paper, we analyze a set of manual Fitzpatrick skin type assignments and also employ the individual typology angle to automatically estimate ...
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Functional variation among LPMOs revealed by the inhibitory effects of cyanide and buffer ions
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This study addresses the inhibition of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) by cyanide and explains how and why the magnitude of observed inhibitory effects depends on the way LPMO reactions are setup and on the type of LPMO. Enzymes known as lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are mono‐copper polysaccharide‐degrading peroxygenases that ...
Ole Golten +10 more
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Pitch ability as an aptitude for tone learning [PDF]
, 2016 Tone languages such as Mandarin use voice pitch to signal lexical contrasts, presenting a challenge for second/foreign language (L2) learners whose native languages do not use pitch in this manner. The present study examined components of an aptitude for
Bowles, Anita R. +2 more
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Interaction of tone, syntax and semantics in the acquistion of chichewa negation.pdf
Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 The data for three children learning Chichewa as their first language between the ages of 1.0 and 2.6 were analyzed to identify and describe the patterns of development of tone, morpho-syntax and semantics in the acquisition of negation.
Moira Chimombo, Al Mtenje
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Revista Linguística, 2023 This paper describes and analyzes the ka particle in constructions with dynamic predicates in Lung’Ie, an endangered Portuguese-lexifier creole language spoken on Príncipe Island.
Núbia Ferreira Rech +1 more
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Nature, 1880 I SAW a little time back, but omitted to note it at the time, a brief notice of some German experiments showing that the strings of good old instruments of fine tone tended far more than in the case of inferior violins to vibrate in closed curves or simple curves.
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