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Tone Change in Cantonese
The phenomenon known as bianyin, or 'tone change', in Cantonese as spoken in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China involves an alternation between any of the six non-high tones and the high rising tone--or, for a very limited number of morphemes, the high level tone. This study gives an analytical account …
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Tone in lexical phonology
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1983.
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Getting /srs about tone tags
… speakers may struggle to convey their tone and emotions to their readers and interlocutors. This complication leads to questions surrounding the state of the conventions for conveying tone in digital utterances (e.g., tweets). This thesis explores one such way that speakers overcome …
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Tone and Stress in Taiwanese
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988.
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On the nature of tone
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1990.
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Metrical dependencies in tone assignment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1989.
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Relational correspondence in tone sandhi
… height (Fo scaling) relation between successive tones. Four height relations are proposed for the tonal contour: "greater than" (x>y), "less than" (x<y), "equal to" (x=y), and "non-equal to" (x=/y). Preservation of the four scaling relations is contextualized with respect to different degrees of …
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The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music
<p>This dissertation is about tone presence, or how musical tone shows up for experience in twentieth-century music. In exploring the subject of tone presence, I rethink notions of “pitch structure” in post-tonal theory and offer an alternative that focuses on the question of what it is to be a …
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Postnatal Maturation Modulates Cerebrovascular Myogenic Tone
… to develop and maintain pressure-evoked myogenic tone in rat cerebral blood vessels. To test this hypothesis, pressure-induced myogenic tone and changes in artery wall ([Ca2+]i) were measured simultaneously in isolated endothelium denuded, fura-2 loaded middle cerebral arteries (MCA) from pup …
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Dryden's Pegasus: Heroic Tone in Macflecknoe
… relationship of meaning, metre, and heroic tone.</p>
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Learning Internet from tone of voice
The ability to discern information from the tone of voice that a person uses is an important part of social interactions. Synthetic characters that can interact naturally with humans could take advantage of this information if they could discern it. I propose that a synthetic character with a …
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The Relationship Between Line and Tone
… search included that which is sensible through tone, and that which is intelligible through line. Tone and color were used to paint the sensible, geometric constructions were used to understand the intelligible. The constructed axonometric drawings became both sensible and intelligible in the …
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Children’s recognition of emotional tone-of-voice
Compared to adults, children demonstrate lower recognition in vocal emotion recognition tasks across past literature. This thesis explored if the quality of stimuli used in assessing recognition (of anger, fear, happiness, sadness, pleasant-surprise, and neutrality) could meaningfully influence …
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Cross-group friendships and skin tone perceptions
… explored this hypothesis in the context of skin tone perceptions. Colorism has had an historical and pervasive impact on individuals categorized as racial/ethnic minorities. This study attempted to bridge the gaps in research directed at interventions for reducing and eliminating the antecedents …
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Aspects of Tone and Voice in Phuthi
… in a formal phonological analysis of the tone patterns found in Phuthi, a Bantu language. The focus of the work is Phuthi high tone (H), and its interaction with tonal 'depression domains', often triggered by breathy voiced segments, which condition low tone within the lexical phonology. …
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The Concept of Tone: Definition and Classification
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:34:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7212292.PDF: 9944507 bytes, checksum: 327462e1c71ff32c7c53219ddd649e75 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Psychophysiology of Visual Recognition Memory (Vagal Tone)
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 69058 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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A high performance continuous tone display processor
Thesis. 1976. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Spontaneous tone in deoxycorticosterone acetate-salt hypertensive rats
… contribute to the modulation of spontaneous tone observed in aortic rings from deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA) salt hypertensive rats. In isolated organ baths, tension developed in rings from hypertensive but not SHAM-normotensive rats in response to increases in preload. …
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Twelve-Tone Identity: Adorno Reading Schoenberg through Kant
Theodor Adorno’s view of Arnold Schoenberg can be seen in light of his criticism of Immanuel Kant. Critiquing Kant’s concept of Enlightenment and his dualist philosophy, Adorno also critiques common misconceptions about Kant's work in bourgeois society. Similarly, in Schoenberg's oeuvre Adorno …
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