This article investigates the use of distal demonstrative Hitlo in Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM) from a discourse-pragmatic perspective. The analysis is based on a 5-hour corpus of spoken data, including daily conversations, radio interviews, TV drama series, and some random examples. A total of 172 tokens of Hitlos are identified in the data. They can be divided into six categories according to...

Time-scale modification (TSM) is the task of speeding up or slowing down an audio signal’s playback speed without changing its pitch. In digital music production, TSM has become an indispensable tool, which is nowadays integrated in a wide range of music production software. Music signals are diverse—they comprise harmonic, percussive, and transient components, among others. Because of this wid...

Vacuum and temperature effects on moisture content, water vapor permeability (WVP), color (L, a, b, and DE), tensile strength (TS), elongation (E), and total soluble matter (TSM) of soy protein isolate (SPI) films were examined. SPI films were cured at 60, 72.5, or 85 °C and at 101.3, 81.32, or 61.32 kPa for 24 h. As a result of heat-curing moisture content, WVP, E, and TSM decreased, and total...

*Assistant Professor, Deptt. Of E.N.T. Head and neck Surgery, TSM HOSPITAL & MEDICAL COLLEGE, Lucknow, India. **Assistant Professor, Deptt. Of Pathology, TSM HOSPITAL & MEDICAL COLLEGE, Lucknow, India. Associate Professor, Deptt. Of E.N.T. Head and neck Surgery, Era’s Lucknow Medical College & Hospital, Lucknow, India. Junior Resident 3 Year, Deptt. Of E.N.T. Head and neck Surgery, Era’s Luckno...

A new time-domain, non-pitch-synchronous method for timescale modification targeted on broadband speech is proposed. The method is based on the SOLA (synchronous overlap-add) and EM-TSM (envelope-matching time-scale modification) methods, where the sign envelope of the EM-TSM method is replaced by a generalized envelope formed by the highest bits of the samples. (The actual number of bits will ...