this study examined the phonetic characteristics of persian sentence stress produced by native mandarin chinese speakers. we compared the phonetic correlates of sentence stress, namely fundamental frequency (f0), vowel duration, and vowel intensity in the production of 8 mandarin chinese speakers and 8 native persian speakers. results indicated that mandarin chinese speakers of persian could di...

We present two XML formats for the description and encoding of semantic role information in corpora. The TIGER/SALSA XML format provides a modular representation for semantic roles and syntactic structure. The Text-SALSA XML format is a lightweight version of TIGER/SALSA XML designed for manual annotation with an XML editor rather than a special tool. Both formats can deal with underspecificati...

A novel complex of cadmium (II) [CdL0.5(NO3)(H2O)](1), L= N,N-bis (O-hydroxyacetophenone) ethylene diamine, have been synthesized as single crystal and nano size. Compound 1 in nano size was obtained under sonochemical irradiation and has been characterized by IR, 1HNMR spectroscopy, X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and scanni...

We develop techniques for learning the meanings of unknown words in context. Working within a com-positional semantics framework, we write down equations in which a sentence's meaning is some combination function of the meaning of its words. When one of the words is unknown, we ask for a paraphrase of the sentence. We then compute the meaning of the unknown word by inverting parts of the semant...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the wh movement for Romanian in TAG formalisrn. Romanian shares free extractibility from tensed clauses with its Rornance sister languages and it has borrowed multiple wh-fronting from the slavic languages. These features of Rornanian are quoted by Kroch (1989) frorn Comorovsky (1986) , where he justifies the analysis of extractions in TAG. This formalism all...

In general, topic is informally defined as that part of the sentence which the sentence is about and comment as what is said in the sentence. This is, of course, not a formal definition but so far noone has succeeded to provide a viable formal definition for these notions. In the analysis of sentences and texts these notions can nevertheless be used with considerable

HMEANT (Lo and Wu, 2011a) is a manual MT evaluation technique that focuses on predicate-argument structure of the sentence. We relate HMEANT to an established linguistic theory, highlighting the possibilities of reusing existing knowledge and resources for interpreting and automating HMEANT. We apply HMEANT to a new language, Czech in particular, by evaluating a set of Englishto-Czech MT system...

Manifestation of the question intonation was investigated for Ryukyuan which is an endangered language. Ryukyuan is related to Japanese and is known to preserve a number of linguistic features that were present in 6 to 8 th century Japanese. Ryukyuan is typologically interesting since the mood suffix takes the role of intonation. Though a language with such a mood suffix has been reported in li...

The date " 1893 " in the end of the sentence " However, the first description of protein was carried out by Gerhardus Johannes Mulder, a Dutch chemist, in 1893 " should be changed to " 1839. "

This article assesses the influence of race and gender in the functioning of the São Paulo State criminal justice system. Through the use of longitudinal analysis, that is, analysis that tracks individuals as they make their way through the criminal justice system (in this case, from indictment to the serving of the sentence for robbery), one may observe the different treatments accorded to wom...