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Tune or Text? Tune-text accommodation strategies in Portuguese

In Portuguese, different strategies for dealing with tune-text accommodation have been reported. However, no systematic research has been conducted exploring crucial cases of complex nuclear melodies realized in nuclear words with final stress, as in yes-no questions. Based on reading and semispontaneous data from ten regions in Brazil and eleven regions in Portugal, this study reveals that Bra...

Rhythm genes sing more than one tune: noncanonical functions of cardiac ion channels.

The acheulean handaxe: More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune?

The goal of this paper is to provoke debate about the nature of an iconic artifact-the Acheulean handaxe. Specifically, we want to initiate a conversation about whether or not they are cultural objects. The vast majority of archeologists assume that the behaviors involved in the production of handaxes were acquired by social learning and that handaxes are therefore cultural. We will argue that ...

Tune in or tune out: age-related differences in listening to speech in music.

OBJECTIVES To examine age-related differences in listening to speech in music. DESIGN In the first experiment, the effect of music familiarity on word identification was compared with a standard measure of word identification in multitalker babble. The average level of the backgrounds was matched and two speech-to-background ratios were tested. In the second experiment, recognition recall was...

Three Levels of Tune-

This paper proposes that to understand various issues concerning tune-text alignment, three levels of timing relations need to be recognized, namely, underlying association, target synchronization, and surface alignment. While the link between underlying association and target synchronization may be stipulated by various phonological rules, the link between surface alignment and target synchron...