Monologue of an Old Cardiologist

Building Monologue

To build an argument and particularly an argument presented as a monologue a writer must assemble and marshal a battery of supports for a claim. Some of those supports will be arranged in convergent structures, some as linked; some will be expressed, some will be left implicit; sometimes a support will need further support of its own and sometimes, not. This paper explores the factors which lea...

Bacterial Monologue: An Engaging Writing Activity for Nonscience Majors

Standard deviation of F0 in student monologue

Twenty ten-minute oral presentations made by Swedish students speaking English have been analyzed with respect to the standard deviation of F0 over long stretches of speech. Values have been normalized by division with the mean. Results show a strong correlation between proficiency in English and pitch variation for male speakers but not for females. The results also identify monotone and disfl...

An unquiet life. Memoirs of a physician and cardiologist

An unquiet life. Memoirs of a physician and cardiologist. This book is of unusual interest. It is not a history of cardiology in Belfast in the last forty years, though that is touched on in some of its aspects. It is the self-revelation of the remarkable man and physician who revolutionised the practice of cardiology in Belfast, in Ulster, and ultimately the world. He may not have meant it, bu...

Contextual Aspects of Prosody in Monologue Generation

This paper presents a theory concerning the dependence of intonational contours on discourse context, and expounds a framework for modeling contrastive stress, a phenomena whereby pitch accents are strategically placed based on their ability to discriminate among available discourse entities. The intonation theory, which is presented with respect to a model of discourse coherence inspired by Ce...