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Prosodic Phrasing in Spontaneous Swedish
… of speech into chunks. The chunking, or prosodic phrasing, of speech plays an important role in both the production and perception of speech. This study represents a move away from the laboratory speech examined in previous, related studies on prosodic phrasing in Swedish, since a spontaneous, …
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Intonational phrasing in language production and comprehension
The work presented in this thesis was conducted with two aims in mind. The first was to understand where speakers prefer to place intonational boundaries in language production. The second was to understand where listeners prefer to hear boundaries in language comprehension.
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Phonetic and Phonological Evidence for Intermediate Phrasing in Spanish Intonation
In Spanish, each intonation phrase is comprised of at least one or more intermediate phrases. By definition, the end of an intonation phrase is also the end of its final intermediate phrase, and in this position, T- and the boundary tone T% (marking an intonation-phrase boundary) combine to …
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Phonetic and Phonological Evidence for Intermediate Phrasing in Spanish Intonation
… however, since only one level of phonological phrasing exists in the language---the intonation phrase itself (Sosa 1991, 1999).
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The Construction and Validation of a Test of Expressive Phrasing in Music
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Pillar notes and phrase templates: A pedagogical phrasing method for oboe applied instructors
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Phrasing and polyrhythm in contemporary jazz guitar: a portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis.
… and Gilad Hekselman. An in depth examination of phrasing (Chapter One) and polyrhythm (Chapter Two) are underpinned by transcriptions by the author of Abercrombie's Straight Flight (1979), Hekselman's entire discography as a leader, Splitlife (2006), Words Unspoken (2008), Hearts Wide Open …
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The expression of topic continuity by noun and pronoun phrasing and zero anaphora in first-year research writing
Using linguistic devices to build cohesion in writing has long been a challenge for students (Crossley & McNamara, 2010). This is a particular problem for learners of English as a Second Language (ESL), as languages vary in the devices used. Researchers in the field of contrastive rhetoric (e.g., …
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Talk on Musical Interpretation — Visual Tools for Perceived Dynamics and Points of Gravity
… based on established conventions of melody phrasing, two special visual tools were developed: the Melody Phrasing Curve and a system for notating metrical points of gravity. In two empirical studies, the relevancy of these visual tools, intended to simplify the communication of matters …
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Rediscovering Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem
… intention. Understanding Verdi's tempo and phrasing in the Requiem is of crucial importance in rediscovering his intention. Knowing that Verdi's metronome markings were not merely performance suggestions but that they actually reflected his final decision is equally important. Unlike his …
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COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN TRENDS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION
… chord harmony, consistent rhythms with spacious phrasing, and recalled material. The newer transcriptions consist more of dense harmony, scales independent from the composed material, unpredictable, complex rhythms, and continuous new material. Note-worthy discussion points will include …
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Prosody and recursion
… structure that encodes information about phrasing, accent placement, and prominence. Scope relations, argument structure, and information structure affect prosodic phrasing indirectly by determining which of the two principles applies and when a syntactic cycle is spelled out. The derived …
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Phonetic aspects of fluency in read and spontaneous speech
… BA thesis was to compare linking and prosodic phrasing parameters in the recordings of students of English and American studies. We examined the speech of B2 Czech speakersof Englishwithstrongly accentedpronunciation to see whether thecompletion of English Phoneticsand Phonology course hadan …
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'My Testament in Englisshe Tonge': A study in the use of the vernacular in medieval wills
… London to explore nuances of composition and phrasing. Having established the context and structure of the developed form, a detailed comparative analysis of the testamentary language contrasts the phrasing of wills written in Latin and French with that used in the emerging English texts. The …
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A portfolio of acousmatic compositions
… source sounds, deriving from them articulated phrasing and gesture which are developed to give sound objects the ability to move in a stereo or multi-channel space with expressive force and sonic clarity. There is also a strong use of the qualities and characteristics of the human voice in my …
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The pre-service development of teacher skill in reading questioning strategy
… The intent wasto enhance teacher skill in phrasing comprehension questions that promote children's critical reading behaviors. ProceduresInstructional and evaluative materials and a question classification system were developed based upon a review of literature relative to reading …
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The emergence of group stress in medieval French
… in the corpus to permit studies of phonological phrasing and stress placement in lines of verse. Much octosyllabic narrative verse, in particular texts associated with oral performance, is shown to have an iambic rhythmic tendency in the pre-1250 period, which is particularly strong in the …
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The identification and function of English prosodic features
… between syntactic structure and intonational phrasing. The first study tests and refines a model designed to predict the intonational phrasing of a sentence given the syntactic structure. In further analysis, we demonstrate that specific acoustic cues-word duration and the presence of silence …
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An Analysis of Joe Lovano's Tenor Saxophone Improvisation on "Misterioso" by Thelonius Monk: An Exercise in Multi-Dimensional Thematicism
… for this study which focuses on four areas: 1) phrasing, 2) step progression, 3) motives and formulas, and 4) harmonic implications. Thematic relationships are discovered through the analysis of the transcription of Lovano's improvisation; the four levels of the analysis work together and also …
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Assessing cross-cultural competence: evaluating the psychometric properties and the nomological network of a modified version of the cultural intelligence scale
… from other intelligences. Additionally, the phrasing of some of the items in the CQS require respondents to have been to a foreign culture to be able to answer. To address these critiques, I modified the CQS to accommodate individuals who have never been to a foreign culture. I then explored …
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