This study examines the prosodic marking of topic constructions in Mandarin Chinese. The findings suggest that, even though on the surface there are prosodic markings that differentiate topics from comments, the difference is the product of the prosodic phrasing, coupled with the declination and final lowering, in that a topic construction is usually decomposed into to two prosodic constituents...

A full-vector paleosecular variation (PSV) record (inclination, declination, and relative paleointensity) from the pen-ultimate glacial (130–180 ka) could be constructed a total of 12 sediment cores recovered Arkhangelsky Ridge in SE Black Sea. Stacking individual partly fragmented records was achieved by detailed correlation using high-resolution data X-ray fluorescence scanning, Ca/Ti K/Ti lo...