Phrasing and Meaning

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Intonational phrasing is constrained by meaning, not balance

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Phrasing Questions

In a constructive learning setting, a robot builds up beliefs about the world by interacting – interacting with the world, and with other agents. Asking questions is key in such a setting. It provides a mechanism for interactively exploring possibilities, to extend and explain the robot’s beliefs. The paper focuses on how to linguistically phrase questions in dialogue. How well the point of a q...

the relationship between topic familiarity and guessing lexical meaning and retention among iranian efl learners

the skill of reading in english as a foreign language is an important and challenging one which is affected both by linguistic and extra linguistic factors. since vocabularies are part and parcel of every reading comprehension text, knowing enough vocabulary always facilitates this process. however, guessing strategy as one of the most important strategies has consistently ignored by language l...

The Transmission of Meaning by Prosodic Phrasing: A Comparison of French with English and German Using No Ls and Hs

This paper examines the relationship between phonetic exponents of syntagmatic prosodic structuring and functions in speech communication in English, German, and French. Two strands are distinguished in this substance-function relation: the transmission of semantic structures in propositional, appellative, and expressive meaning, and the facilitation of this transfer from sender to receiver by ...