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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Neutral tone"”.
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Neutral Tone in Mandarin: Representation and Interaction with Utterance-level Prosody
… that do not carry any of the four citation tones (T1: High-level tone, T2: Mid-rising tone, T3: Low-convex tone and T4: High-falling tone), and they are said to have a neutral tone (NT). These syllables are usually shorter, lighter, prosodically grouped with the preceding CT-bearing …
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Open Fire: A Portrait of Gun Control in U.S. and International Newspaper Articles after the 2011 Arizona Mass Shooting
… in a way that affects awareness, salience and tone of those items. There has long been debate about media framing especially as it pertains to the framing of violent events. Mass shootings are of particular interest because of the graphic and often senseless nature of the crime. This study …
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Come a Little Closer: Examining Spillover Priming Effects from a Network Perspective
… to the Top, in either a positive, negative, or neutral tone, with President Obama being portrayed as responsible for the issue. A newspaper article was manipulated to portray a fictional congressional candidate named Steve Easterly as either strongly or weakly tied to President Obama. After …
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Communicating police-involved deaths: a mixed-methods exploration of Canadian police agencies’ Twitter strategies and perceptions of police
… provided minimal information, and utilized a neutral tone. Further analysis suggested that many agencies used techniques to possibly obscure the event, with few clearly communicating that a death had occurred and the role that police played. Of the few tweets that employed empathy, most were …
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A weighted-constraint model of F0 movements/
… of the phonological representations of tones. In the previous literature, there have been two conflicting views concerning tonal timing: tones are aligned with respect to segments (the Segmental Anchoring Hypothesis) or tones occur at a fixed interval from other tones (the Constant …