The instructions under which raters quantify syllable prominence perception need to be simple in order to maintain immediate reactions. This leads to noise in the rating data that can be dealt with by normalization, e.g. setting central tendency = 0 and dispersion = 1 (as in Z-score normalization). Questions arise such as: Which parameter is adequate here to capture central tendency? Which refe...

In the present study we investigated the effect of semantic context on the perception of words that differ only in the lexical stress pattern. Our study was based on the disyllabic German word AUGUST. Depending on whether the lexical stress is on the first or the second syllable the word refers to either a name or a month. By means of a forced-choice identification experiment we tested to what ...

solar mini-dimmings can be detect in the extreme ultra-violet coronal eruptions. here, sequences of 171_a images taken by solar dynamic observatory/atmospheric imaging assembaly on 13 june 2010 are used. in this special day, both of coronal mass ejection and prominence were observed. the average velocities and accelerations of 500 mini-dimmings which were detected using on feature based classif...

Abstract The article investigates the hypothesis that prominence phenomena on different levels of linguistic structure are systematically related to each other. More specifically, it is hypothesized relations in morphosyntax reflect, and contribute to, management discourse. This empirically based phenomenon agentivity clines, i.e. observation relevance features such as volition or sentience var...