This paper presents a new study on the prosody of Vietnamese language. Sentence pairs containing one interrogative sentence and one affirmative sentence, which have the same tones and the same number of syllables to avoid the effects of lexical tones and of co-articulation, are recorded in order to analyze their prosody evolution. Comparisons allow us to characterize differences between interro...

In study 1 (n = 51, M age = 21.4 years, SD = 5.7), the validity of the Portuguese adaptation of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales (Pires, 2011) was shown through the comparison of means of the original (Gudjonsson, 1997) and the translated scales and the analysis of the correlations between the GSS1 and GSS2 scores. The relationships between interrogative suggestibility and the big five were...

The paper discusses the so-called adverbial use of the wh-pronoun was (‘what’), which establishes a non-standard interrogative construction type in German. It argues that the adverbial use of was (‘what’) is based on the lexical properties of a categorically deficient pronoun was (‘what’), which bears a causal meaning. In addition, adverbial was (‘what’) differs from canonical argument was (‘wh...

There are wh-sentences which express speech acts of interrogative or declarative with the same syntactic structure in standard Chinese, such as, "bǎobao chīdiănr shénme?"(What does the baby intend to eat?) and "bǎobao chīdiănr shénme."(The baby intends something to eat.) The interrogative pronoun "shénme" (what)has different semantic functions, such as specific reference in the interrogative se...

The difficulty of defining and capitalizing the knowledge in an organization from the business data captured in text files. These text files defined as unstructured document that is without a specific format example, plain text. Hence, this paper presents an Interrogative Knowledge Identification framework to identify unstructured documents that encompassed knowledge, information, and data. It ...

IntroductIon The problem of changes in software development is a complex one, and it is almost impossible to avoid it. Indeed, the continuous evolution of the real world causes frequent changes in functional requirements, which entail frequent modifications to the software, yielding a gradual decay of its overall quality. To tackle this problem, two meth-odologies have been proposed: waterfall ...