Speech is an acoustic signal with inherent amplitude modulations in the 1-9 Hz range. Recent models of speech perception propose that this rhythmic nature of speech is central to speech recognition. Moreover, rhythmic amplitude modulations have been shown to have beneficial effects on language processing and the subjective impression listeners have of the speaker. This study investigated the ro...

This study is a mixed method approach that combines quantitative and qualitative analysis to complement each other. The purpose of the analyze explain how appraisal system can be described in terms attitude text Jokowi’s presidential speech. data research transcription President JW’s speech 2015. document was collected In this research, Appraisal Theory (Martin White, 2005) carried out focus on...

Robert C. Turner Skidmore College Abstract After the 2000 presidential election, twenty-one states considered legislation to award their presidential electors using the district system, wherein one elector is awarded to the popular vote winner of each congressional district and the two state electors are awarded to the popular vote winner statewide. Historically, the district system is viewed a...

The Internet and online forums such as Reddit have become an increasingly popular medium for citizens to engage in political conversations. However, the online disinhibition effect resulting from the ability to use pseudonymous identities may manifest in the form of offensive speech, consequently making political discussions more aggressive and polarizing than they already are. Such environment...

Work on this module began under support of National Science Foundation Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement grant DUE9752792 [16]. The video of Reagan’s SDI speech was obtained with the help of the Reagan presidential library. Video clips from the CPSR-sponsored M.I.T. debate are used with permission of the national office of the Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility. Portions of this ...

This article analyzes a rhetorical genre ecology emerging in the aftermath of natural disaster Ghana. Drawing on news articles and opinion pieces, presidential speech, government post-disaster assessment summary, World Bank Group action report, I argue that their operation within contingent environment public spheres, uptakes may be highly unpredictable, but also serve multiple, varied function...

Although 1972 was the year that Winograd published his now classic natural language Study of the blocks world, that fact had not yet penetrated to the ACL. At that time people with AI computational interests were strictly in a minority in the association and it was a radical move to appoint Roger Schank as program chairman for the year's meeting. That was also the year that we didn't have a pre...