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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Paralinguistic"”.
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Cue the Paralinguistics: A Qualitative Case Study of Teacher Social Presence
… high school setting, with a specific emphasis on paralinguistic cues and symbols, such as emoji, emoticons, and Bitmoji. This case study focused on the meaning and understanding of teacher social presence in the virtual setting, utilizing a variety of data collection methods. In-depth interviews …
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The Window: An Experimental Short Film About a Man Who Lives His Life in Darkness
… project specifically considers the visual and paralinguistic nature of typography and its discourse with moving image. A creative consideration of these issues is then synthesized into the short film, the window.
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Discrimination of Linguistic and Prosodic Information In Infant-Directed Speech by Six-Month-Olds
… of the present study was to tease apart the paralinguistic from the linguistic aspects of infants' perception of infant-directed (ID) speech. Several studies have shown that infants beginning at a few days after birth discriminate native from nonnative speech and can discriminate specific …
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The transformations of the expression of humour in audiovisual translation /
… to analyse the linguistic, extralinguistic and paralinguistic transformations of humour in the subtitled comedy series Hot in Cleveland. In order to achieve this goal, an innovative model of the research of the audiovisual text has been constructed on the basis of the multimodal analysis which …
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Speech, signal, symptom : machine listening and the remaking of psychiatric assessment
… screening techniques that instead analyze paralinguistic, acoustic components of speech-such as pitch, speaking rate, and breathiness-which they argue are more directly linked to the internal mechanisms that drive mental illness.
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Social signaling in decision making
… instrument in social interactions. The paralinguistic elements of speech, which are described in common speech as "tone of voice", are one channel of the nonverbal communication. They, together with conversational dynamics, are a very powerful measurement for interactions, without …
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Typeface effects in written language: functions of typeface change for signalling meaning within text
… language which, in combination with other paralinguistic signs available to that system (use of space, punctuation, syntax manipulation are examples), can facilitate the author's intended interpretation. The thirteen studies undertaken for this research project explored the effects of …
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A Fundamental Frequency Data Acquisition System (FFDAS).
… and lexical) information, as well as paralinguistic (sex, age, and emotional state) content. Variations in FO identify major clause and phrase boundaries, and are used to indicate syllable stress. Stressed syllables, for example, are usually of higher frequency than unstressed …
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An analysis of the persuasion strategies used by Japanese and American business persons
… and unconscious execution of linguistic and paralinguistic elements, such as uses of honorifics, address forms, and hedges were introduced. While the American and Japanese business people demonstrated similar persuasion strategies, careful analysis of data suggested that an American value of …
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A computational model for the automatic recognition of affect in speech
… devoted to systems that model and understand the paralinguistic and extralinguistic information in the signal. As the breadth and nature of human-computer interaction escalates to levels previously reserved for human-to-human communication, there is a growing need to endow computational systems …
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Corpus-based unit selection for natural-sounding speech synthesis
… this FST-based search include hierarchical and paralinguistic modelling. The search can also be used in an iterative feedback loop to record new utterances to enhance corpus coverage. This speech synthesis framework has been deployed across various domains and languages in many voices, a …
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Hierarchical organisation of voice and voice gender perception
… is not "just" a speech carrier, it conveys rich paralinguistic information such as gender, age, identity or affective state. A theoretical model which emphasises the similarities between face and voice processing was recently introduced, suggesting a serial and parallel processing pathway of …
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The pragmatics of palavering in Kikoongo
… competence required for palavering consists of paralinguistic and linguistic behaviors which make a palaver an essential institutionalized instrument of survival in Koongo society. In the end of such an event the speakers project a structurally and functionally coherent macro-unit. This appears …
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Slamming into the visceral pleasure of language : the value of disordered spaces and its impact on contemporary vocal landscpes
… to text. There is an exploration of the paralinguistic elements of speech through the concept of beat-boxing. The status of the individual performer is reconsidered in terms of the ownership of material that occurs within the movement. Chapter 3: Vocal landscapes are analysed as a …
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Slamming into the visceral pleasure of language: the value of disordered spaces and its impact on contemporary vocal landscapes
… to text. There is an exploration of the paralinguistic elements of speech through the concept of beat-boxing. The status of the individual performer is reconsidered in terms of the ownership of material that occurs within the movement. Chapter 3: Vocal landscapes are analysed as a …
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A stylistic analysis of Oshiwambo wedding songs in a book entitled Oshipapa Moonkuluhedhi by Petrus Mbenzi
… particularly on their functions, performance and paralinguistic features
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The Language of Collapsing Power: A Cognitive-Lingusitic Critical Discourse Analysis of the Arab Spring Speeches of Mubarak
… Spring Revolution in Egypt. Seven linguistic, paralinguistic, cognitive-linguistic, argumentative, and multimodal features have been investigated and triangulated systematically as markers of power: deixis, presupposition, frames, hidden dialogicality, logical fallacies, stumbles, and …
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Narrative as Self Performance: The Rhetorical Construction of Identities on Facebook Profiles
… reveal that students use both linguistic and paralinguistic features in their narrative performance of identity. Students challenge and alter traditional conventions of grammar, writing, and narratives to present specific narratives of self. Students use these features to communicate five …
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Online persuasion: the influence of message cues and source characteristics
… persuasive interactions due to the absence of paralinguistic cues. Further, the extant research in this domain has not explicitly examined the persuasion process in terms of a theoretical model. This thesis aims to address these issues and provide a foundation from which future research can be …
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A grammar of Awtuw
… 12 presents a brief description of a variety of paralinguistic phenomena.
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