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Reconstructing PASCAL VOC [PDF]
We address the problem of populating object category detection datasets with dense, per-object 3D reconstructions, bootstrapped from class labels, ground truth figure-ground segmentations and a small set of keypoint annotations. Our proposed algorithm first estimates camera viewpoint using rigid structure-from-motion, then reconstructs object shapes by
Sara Vicente +3 more
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Dynamics of Vocatives in American, Russian and British Political Communication
The paper analyses dynamic aspects of the vocative system in American, Russian and British political communication. The research considers inaugural addresses of the presidents of the USA (1789-2017), those of the presidents of the Russian Federation ...
Elena Yu. Nesterenko
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Вокативни форми на роднинските названия в народнопесенния фолклор от Ксантийско (дн. Гърция)
Kinship Names as Vocatives in Folk Songs from the Xanthi Region. The paper presents the kinship names as vocatives, appearing in folk songs from the Xanthi region excerpted from two collections (Pomaki. The Muslims of Rodopi (1995) by P.
Kanevska-Nikolova, Elena
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The purpose shapes the vocative: Prosodic realisation of Colombian Spanish vocatives [PDF]
The question of whether intonation contours directly signal meaning is an old one. We revisit this question using vocatives in Colombian Spanish (Bogotá). We recorded speakers' productions in three pragmatic conditions – greeting, confirmation-seeking, and reprimand – and compared proper names (vocatives) to situation-specific one-word utterances, such
Huttenlauch, Clara +2 more
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Revisiting Vocatives in English
This study aims at revisiting the forms and functions of vocatives in English. Vocatives can be classified into different forms that perform two main functions in English viz, calling the addressee and maintaining the relationship, the former labeled as ...
Asst. Lect. Salah Y. Rasheed Asst. Lect. Salah Y. Rasheed +1 more
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Phatic units of language and the theory of speech genres [PDF]
The article discusses approaches to the description of the phatic communication domain and the connection between the concept of phatics and the theory of speech genres.
Sharonov, Igor Alekseevich
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A Sociolinguistic Study of Address Terms in Assiut, Upper - Egypt [PDF]
This study attempts to describe and analyze the address terms which are used mainly in the urban Upper-Egyptian Arabic variety, especially in Assiut city, within a sociolinguistic framework. The study examines Assiuti Arabic address terms in the light of
Arwa saeed Mohammed
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“Allez, (mon) chou, on y va!”. Twenty years later: Revisiting the puzzle of French vocatives [PDF]
The main assumption put forward in this paper is that that vocative phrases are not substantially different from noun phrases in argument positions when it comes to their internal make-up and the rules underlying their syntactic derivation.
Martine Coene*,Yves D’hulst**, Liliane Tasmowski***
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On definiteness and person in Romanian vocatives
We investigate the correlations between the various morphosyntactic types of Romanian vocatives (+/- vocative-morphology, +/- definiteness) and the main types of vocative uses – addresses, evaluative, selecting calls and non-selecting calls (where ...
Blanca Croitor, Ion Giurgea
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Can riots represent? A democratic theory
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
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