New information in a sentence is expressed by prosodic prominence in many languages. However, the reverse is less obvious: given information and the lack of emphasis do not necessarily go hand in hand. This is especially true of languages that are not flexible with respect to their sentence-internal accentuation patterns, i.e in which a nucleus shift is not (always) possible. Based on predictio...

To comprehend language, listeners need to encode the relationship between words within sentences. This entails categorizing words into their appropriate word classes. Function words, consistently preceding words from specific categories (e.g., the ballNOUN, I speakVERB), provide invaluable information for this task, and children's sensitivity to such adjacent relationships develops early on in ...

Abstract Determining the extent to which two text snippets are semantically equivalent is a well-researched topic in areas of natural language processing, information retrieval and summarization. The sentence-to-sentence similarity scoring extensively used both generic query-based summarization documents as significance or indicator. Nevertheless, most these applications utilize concept semanti...

This paper addresses the quality of the Persian translations of 32 English tourism textbooks. The qual- ity was assessed at sentence-level and page-level by the researchers and from the viewpoint of a tour- ism management student. In Phase 1, the quality of one randomly selected sentence from each text- book was assessed applying Hurtado Albir‘s analytical model; two were acc...

The paper examines the influence of application instructive musical exercises on better and more correct pronunciation certain sentences in English. In relation to type (interrogative form questions, affirmative with adjuncts if-clauses) intonation words phrases within sentences, a melody was specially composed for each sentence, primary criterion matching melodic flow sentence. training implem...