This paper is a corpus-based study which aims at profiling the most frequent verb-noun collocations and their communicative functions in newspaper editorials Ghana. In all, total of 92,927 running words were culled from 220 The Ghanaian Times Daily Graphic, published 2016 2017 news years, for compilation specialised corpus study. From collocation tab AntConc software, sixty-seven Verb-Noun Coll...

We investigated with fMRI whether different lateralization types of cortical activation in prosodic tasks are caused by different stress-related coping strategies. After classifying healthy women as high or low repressive they performed four different identification tasks with acoustically presented speech material while being in the MR scanner. The two materials presented in blocks were emotio...

This paper aims to explore the text style of Margaret Drabble’s novel A Summer Bird-Cage. Specifically, it is intended scrutinize how language vivifies her representation some women characters’ perplexity and predicament when they are confronted with problems related value orientations lifestyles. The present paper’s significance lies in a methodological breakthrough resultant interdisciplinary...

There is great phonetic variation of words in context, conditioned by phonetic environment, word type, and speaking style in different communicative situations. Function words and modal particles are particularly susceptible to having their phonetic weight and complexity reduced, especially in casual spontaneous speech. But even if whole strings of segments are no longer delimitable in reduced ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the hemispheric contributions to prosody recognitions and interference effects of semantic processing on prosody for stroke patients by using the Korean language. METHODS Ten right hemisphere damaged patients (RHD), nine left hemisphere damaged patients (LHD), and eleven healthy controls (HC) participated. In pure prosody recognition task, four semantically neutral se...

This paper proposes an approach to automatically evaluate the prosody of Chinese Mandarin speech for language learning. In this approach, we grade the appropriateness of prosody of speech units according to a model speech corpus from a teacher’s voice. To this end, we build two models, which are the prosody model and the scoring model. The prosody model that is built from the teacher’s speech p...

Emotional prosody carries information about the inner state of a speaker and therefore helps us to understand how other people feel. However, emotions are also transferred verbally. In order to further substantiate the underlying mechanisms of emotional prosodic processing we investigated the interaction of both emotional prosody and emotional semantics with eventrelated brain potentials (ERPs)...