This paper analyzes phonetic realization of word tone in Nagasaki Japanese, which has twocontrastive word tones. A Tone A word is realized with a sharp pitch fall, and a Tone B word is realized with no pitch fall. Although many studies investigated the intonation in Tokyo Japanese, little attention has been paid to intonational structure in the dialect. This study conducts two acoustic-phonetic...

Many taxa of both marine and freshwater zooplankton perform diel vertical migrations with amplitudes from a few to 100 metres (Hutchinson, 1967). The 'normal' pattern is an evening ascent and a morning descent, though several cases of 'reversed' migrations have been described (Ohman, Frost & Cohen, 1983; Bayly, 1986). Migrating animals spend the day in deep waters but stay near the surface at n...

In this paper, we are interested in the study of operators represented by infinite matrices. Note that in [1], Altay and Başar gave some results on the fine spectrum of the difference operator Δ acting on the sequence spaces c0 and c. Then they dealt with the fine spectrum of the operator B(r,s) defined by a matrix band over the sequence spaces c0 and c. In de Malafosse [3, 5], there are result...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the nature of the delayed-suffix effect reported by Watkins and Todres (1980). In both experiments, subjects were presented lists of digits for serial recall. At the end of each list either a tone or a voice reading aloud the word go was presented. The voice was either in the same voice that read the digits or in a different voice. Past research has...

It is well established that the tone-evoked response of neurons in auditory cortex can be attenuated if another tone is presented several hundred milliseconds before. The present study explores in detail a complementary phenomenon in which the tone-evoked response is enhanced by a preceding tone. Action potentials from multiunit groups and single units were recorded from primary and caudomedial...

Background: Tone has been claimed to play an active role in stress assignment in Standard Chinese: 1) a syllable with tone constitutes the head of a foot, hence is stressed, and a syllable without tone is unstressed (Yip 1980); 2) the intrinsic prominence of tone determines the stressability of a syllable, syllables with the Falling and the High-level tones are stressed, whereas syllables with ...

In order to display a high dynamic range (HDR) video on a regular low dynamic range (LDR) screen, it needs to be tone mapped. A great number of tone mapping (TM) operators exist – most of them designed to tone map one image at a time. Using them on each frame of an HDR video individually leads to flicker in the resulting sequence. In our work, we analyze three tone mapping operators with respec...

Kim, Sun-Hoi. 2002. The metrical dependency of tone placement in Optimality Theory. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 8.1. 17-38. In this paper, I examine the metrical dependency of tone placement in OT. In Creek and Shingazidja, the determination of tone placement heavily draws on the special relationship between high tone and the metrically prominent position in the prosodic doma...

[Purpose] The purpose of the present study was to apply early intervention via microcurrent and cryotherapy in patients who underwent rotator cuff reconstruction surgery, and to investigate the effects of such interventions on pain and inflammation levels based on the analysis of C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, and on changes in muscle tone. [Subjects and Methods] The study population consiste...

INTRODUCTION Auditory steady-state responses (ASSR) are an important tool to detect objectively frequency-specific hearing thresholds. Pure-tone audiometry is the gold-standard for hearing evaluation, although sometimes it may be inconclusive, especially in children and uncooperative adults. AIM Compare pure tone thresholds (PT) with ASSR thresholds in normal hearing subjects. MATERIALS AND...