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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"nuclear stress"”.
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The perception and production of prominence in Spanish by heritage speakers and L2 learners
… in Spanish: word-level prominence (i.e., lexical stress), marking paradigmatic contrast (e.g., Canto. 'I sing.' vs. Cantó. 'He/She/You (formal) sang.'), and sentence-level prominence (i.e., nuclear stress), marking information status and focus (e.g., ¿Qué hizo Mariana? - Mariana cantó. 'What did …
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Grammatical Effects of Topic and Focus Information
… role for focus interpretation. Sentential stress patterns and their implications for focus interpretation are examined. In particular, this dissertation examines whether scrambling has anything to do with focus. While I show that nuclear stress falls on the most deeply embedded XP in the …
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Genome Variation Across Cancers Scales With Tissue Stiffness--An Invasion-Mutation Mechanism
… during tumorigenic invasion, they sustain nuclear stress, leading to DNA damage and ultimately genomic variation. Consistent with this hypothesis, we show that migration of diverse cancer cell lines through constricting pores causes excess DNA damage as well as a transient delay in cell …
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Focus on Basque movements
… objectives: (i) to develop a new version of the Nuclear Stress Rule (NSR) which overcomes certain problems found with previous versions, and (ii) to explain the so-called preverbal focus position in Basque in terms of the new NSR and prosodic principles imposed on focused phrases. With respect to …
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Focus and discourse stress
English utterances contain a peak stress prominence that is known variously as primary phrasal stress, nuclear stress, sentence stress, or more precisely, discourse stress, which is typically understood to mark new information or contrasts in sentences. Learners may have difficulties communicating …
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A comparative study of variation in stress and intonation patterns in the spoken English of some selected Yoruba and Zulu university undergraduate students
… deals with a comparative study of variation in stress and intonation patterns in the spoken Yoruba and Zulu English. It seeks to identify the nature of Yoruba and Zulu spoken English and to account for the varieties that exist within the continuum. The study also aims to generate a pedagogical …
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Reduce Inappropriate Cardiac Stress Testing by Improving Adherence to Educational Guidelines
… about theindications and contraindications for nuclear and non-nuclear cardiac stress testing to promote appropriate test selection and improve patient outcomes. Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, with coronary artery disease responsible for …