Speech scientists have long proposed that formant exaggeration in infant-directed speech plays an important role in language acquisition. This event-related potential (ERP) study investigated neural coding of formant-exaggerated speech in 6-12-month-old infants. Two synthetic /i/ vowels were presented in alternating blocks to test the effects of formant exaggeration. ERP waveform analysis showe...

exaggeration is a rhetoric picture which is often used to arrange the speech and to attract the audience. in exaggeration, the poet, shows his meanings by the use of two methods, to make the subject greater or smaller, and in fact he develops his speech by the use of these rhetorical devices and emphatics in order to make the meaning more understandable. most rhetoricians, as they introduce the...

Sell-side analysts are compensated, at least in part, by brokerage commissions. These commissions create an incentive to bias forecasts to generate trade. Thus, analysts have clear economic incentives to deceive and traders have economic incentives to detect deception. Prior analytical theories of information transmission games starkly predict that there will always be some deception (with trad...

the present study aims to examine the boundaries and criteria for exaggeration and degradation from the views of allameh majlesi and sheikh mufid. both theologians have referred to similar notions as limits and criteria for exaggeration, including a belief in the divinity and prophecy of the infallible imams, a belief in the reincarnation and :union: of the infallibles with god, or believing th...

An intriguing tactic for achieving facial expressions beyond realistic approaches has gradually drawn lots of attention in the fields of video games, avatars, teleconference, human-computer interface and computer animation. However, most researches on facial expressions tend to remain faithful to the trend in realistic expressions rather than exaggerating expressions to take into account person...