Emotional expressions influence memory by both impairing and enhancing attention and perception at encoding, consolidation and recall. In three studies we compare angry, happy and fearful emotional prosodies using a single-word presentation paradigm, and investigate the effects of emotional vocal expressions on immediate and delayed recall for central emotional items and their periphery. Overal...

A theoretical framework for speech reduction is outlined in which 'coarticulation' and 'articulatory control' operate on sequences of 'opening-closing gestures' in linguistic and communicative settings, leading to suprasegmental properties - 'articulatory prosodies' - in the acoustic output. In linking this gestalt perspective in speech production to the role of phonetic detail in speech unders...

This paper presents a computer-assisted learning system of English prosody for French students. Our main goal is to provide learners with relevant feedback, based upon speech signal transformations and guided by a comparison between French and English prosodies. Considering that teachers should be given the possibility of customizing their courses, the main functions of WinSnoori for editing an...

This paper argues that syllables may be divided by feet, based on an analysis of Banawá, an Arawan language of the Brazilian Amazon. This result is important for phonological theory because it improves our understanding of the variable roles of syllables and moras in the phonological systems of individual languages and because it underscores the urgent need for more fieldwork on the prosody of ...

despite a spate of interest in the study of the introductions of scholarly articles, thefocal genre of knowledge construction, research is yet to reach conclusive answers onthe nature of this genre. thus, the present study analyzed research articleintroductions, aiming to explore how the process of knowledge construction isachieved by iranian and international writers of english research articl...

The present study is aimed at describing the semantic prosody of equivalent items in English and Portuguese. Semantic prosody is the connotation conveyed by the regular co-occurrence of lexical items, as revealed by the exploration of a computer-readable corpus. Although there are several studies dealing with semantic prosody in English, only one has looked at this issue contrasting English and...

K E Y W O R D S : corpus linguistics, courtroom discourse, domestic violence, forensic linguistics, O.J. Simpson, semantic prosody 1. Corpus linguistics, connotation and semantic prosody Collocation, ‘the company a word keeps’ to use Firth’s (1957) definition, can tell us a great deal about the semantic shape of a word or phrase, and one particular collocational characteristic, semantic prosody...

Using intracranial local field potential (LFP) recordings in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS), we explored the electrophysiological activity of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) in response to emotional stimuli in the auditory modality. Previous studies focused on the influence of visual stimuli. To this end, we recorded LFPs within the STN in response ...