This paper presents a work-in-progress on the automatic analysis of discourse genre in non-elicited speech. The study is focused on the development of bottom-up methods for automatic validation of discourse typologies found in linguistic descriptions (prosodic, syntactic, pragmatic and/or contextual and situational cues). The linguistic classification examined here opposes five discourse genres...

1 Introduction Phonological patterns, whether viewed synchronically or as they change over time, can be explained only with reference to the larger system of oppositions that they are part of. This was the fundamental insight of modern phonology at the beginning of the last century, as it developed under the hands of de Saussure, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, and others, in opposition to the atomistic ...

This paper reports on the results of two studies investigating the role of allophony in cueing phonemic contrasts. In Cochabamba Quechua, the uvularvelar place distinction is often cued by additional differences in the height of the surrounding vowels. An acoustic study documents the lowering effect of a preceding tautomorphemic or a following heteromorphemic uvular on the high vowels /i u/. A ...

this article aims at contrasting aspectual oppositions in english and persian in the context of the novel the old man and the sea, and its translation by daryabandari (1983) as the data. unlike english, in persian perfective and imperfective forms are morphologically marked. while the vast majority of english simple past forms are translated into persian by past perfective forms, only less than...

This paper investigates how patents held by new ventures affect their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. For a sample of VCseeking German and British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office. We find that in the presence of patent applications, VC financing occurs earlier. Our results suggest that VCs pay attention to patent qual...

This article presents an analytical model of binary dimensions narrative practice perceived as two continua between the oppositions subjectivity/objectivity and structure/agency. Such is considered a site for professional ‘identification’ self-knowing. The provided framework that was applied to series life history events follow-up discussions conducted with six early career teacher educators wo...

nasir khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. the quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. the tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. the researchers have analyzed the ...

nasir khosrow embarks upon a seven year journey in order to come to terms with his spiritual crisis. the quest was the inevitable outcome of the tensions and conflicts between nasir and the institutionalized forms of power and knowledge. the tensions lead to the formation of a series of binary oppositions—verbal and nonverbal—within the text of his travelogue. the researchers have analyzed the ...

1. We used conventional gradient echo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at high field strength (4 Tesla) to functionally image the right motor cortex in six normal human subjects during the performance of a sequence of self-paced thumb to digit oppositions with the left hand (contralateral task), the right hand (ipsilateral task), and both hands (bilateral task). 2. A localized increase in activ...

The paper briefly reviews a theory of intonational prosody and its relation syntax, and to certain oppositions of discourse meaning that have variously been called "topic and comment", "theme and rheme", "given and new", or "presupposition and focus." The theory, which is based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar, is presented in full elsewhere. The present paper examines its implications for the...