Our investigation focuses on several types of structural ambiguity in European Portuguese. The materials include sentences with set-divider adverbs ambiguous as to the direction of syntactic attachment, adjunct and complement PPs ambiguous as to the level of syntactic embedding, nonrestrictive clauses with local and non-local possible antecedents, and relative clauses ambiguous as to their rest...

The terms ∆soil and ∆snow can be ignored when evaluating big catchments on a yearly basis under a Mediterranean climate with dry summers. It is assumed that the soil and snow water storage are almost completely exhausted by the end of the hydrological year. The term ∆aquifers can also be neglected when the global water balance is not greatly affected by subterranean circulation. Equation 1 then...

This paper deals with the intonation of sentence external elements in Catalan. Its main purpose is to investigate the claim that there is a correspondence between prosodic form and grammatical function, so that syntactic independence is paralleled by prosodic independency. A related goal is to identify the mechanisms for signalling prosodic independency and/or dependency. To that end, a product...

This paper analyses the role of prosody in parenthetical insertions, a type of structure that is extremely common in both speech and writing. The materials under study come from a corpus of spontaneous speech acts in Central Catalan (with varying degrees of spontaneity) from which a corpus of oral parenthetical insertions has been compiled. The prototypical prosodic features of a parenthetical ...

Fujita Memorial Institute of Pharmacognosy, Fujita Health University, Hisai, Mie 514-1296; Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192; School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192, Correspondence to: Dr. Kan Shimpo, Fujita Memorial Institute of Pharmacognosy, Fujita Health University, Hisai, Mie 514-1296, Japan. Tel: +...

This work investigates the tonal structure of the focal accent in narrow focus statements of Neapolitan Italian. The formal properties of this accent lend themselves to two competing analyses. Specifically, this accent could equally be described as a HL accentual fall or as a LH rise. The two analyses were evaluated on the basis of a set of utterances containing focus constituents with varying ...

Inflammatory processes are associated with compromised metabolism and elimination of drugs in the liver, largely mediated by proinflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin-6. The Hepa-RG cell line is an established surrogate for primary human hepatocytes (PHH) in drug metabolism and toxicity studies. However, the impact of inflammatory signaling on HepaRG cells has not been well characterized. ...

ings. Few studies have sought information on young men’s attitudes about parenting and sexual behavior.5 While previous research has shown that young men living in areas with substandard social and economic resources are more likely than those from more advantaged backgrounds to say that they have fathered a child or that their partner has been pregnant,6 there are also young men in low-income ...