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Perception of South Swedish Word Accents
No full textA perceptual experiment concerning South Swedish word accents (accent I, accent II) is described. By means of editing and resynthesis techniques the F0 pattern of a test word in a phrase context has been systematically manipulated: initial rise (glide vs. jump) and final concatenation (6 timing degrees of the accentual fall). The results indicate that both a gliding rise and a late fall seem necessary for the perception of accent II, while there appear to be no such specific, necessary cues for the perception of accent I
Multimodal levels of prominence : a preliminary analysis of head and eyebrow movements in Swedish news broadcasts
No full textThis paper presents a first analysis of the distribution of head and eyebrow movements as a function of (a) phonological prominence levels (focal, non-focal) and (b) word accent (Accent 1, Accent 2) in Swedish news broadcasts. Our corpus consists of 31 brief news readings, comprising speech from four speakers and 986 words in total. A head movement was annotated for 229 (23.2%) of the words, while eyebrow movements occurred much more sparsely (67 cases or 6.8%). Results of χ2-tests revealed a dependency of the distribution of movements on the one hand and focal accents on the other, while no systematic effect of the word accent type was found. However, there was an effect of the word accent type on the annotation of ‘double’ head movements. These occurred very sparsely, and predominantly in connection with focally accented compounds (Accent 2), which are characterized by two lexical stresses. Overall, our results suggests that head beats might have a closer association with phonological prosodic structure, while eyebrow movements might be more restricted to higher-level prominence and information-structure coding. Hence, head and eyebrow movements can represent two quite different modalities of prominence cuing, both from a formal and functional point of view, rather than just being cumulative prominence markers
Annual budget (Gilbert, Ariz.)
No full textabstract: The budget includes a profile of Gilbert and its government, a financial overview, details of operating and non-operating funds, capital improvement, and the town's deb
Gilbert Police Department annual report
No full textabstract: A report on the organization and activities of the Gilbert Police Departmen
The Cumulative-Cue Hypotheses : An account of understanding the multimodal nature of prosodic prominence
No full textProsodic prominence can be argued to be multimodal, because co-speech gestures tend to temporally align with prominent units in speech (e.g., Flecha-García, 2010; Leonard and Cummins, 2011; Esteve-Gibert et al., 2017), in line with the phonological synchronization rule by McNeill (1992). In addition, speech and gesture may converge not only in the temporal, but also in the “spatial” domain, displaying correlations between the presence and “strength” of gestures (magnitude or complexity) and the strength of acoustic parameters in the production of prosodic prominence as reflected, for instance, in the accentual fo range (e.g., Krahmer and Swerts, 2007; Parrell et al., 2014; Pouw et al., 2021; Berger and Zellers, 2022; or see Ambrazaitis and House, 2023, for a review). This spatial convergence has been formulated in terms of the Cumulative-Cue Hypothesis (Ambrazaitis and House, 2022, 2023) and has been argued to result from an underlying compulsion to express prominence in both speech and gesture, all else being equal. This compulsion could be understood as part of a revised Effort Code (Gussenhoven, 2004): To signal prominence, we tend to produce vocal and gestural signals indicating an increased level of effort. In our talk, we will discuss this idea in more detail and present empirical evidence in favour of it, taken both from published research and our own previous and ongoing studies. For instance, in a data set comprising news readings from Swedish Television, we found a significant trend for larger fo rises in sentence-level pitch accents (so-called big accents, a.k.a. sentence accent or focal accent) as gestural complexity increased, measured in terms of number of accompanying head or eyebrow movements (no gesture vs. head vs. head plus eyebrows). In an ongoing study, we aim to replicate the previous analysis with spontaneous speech (Edlund et al., 2010), also including manual gesture strokes.PROGEST - Production of prosodic prominence: integrating bodily and articulatory gesture
Comprehensive annual financial report year ended June 30 (Gilbert, Ariz.)
No full textabstract: A complete set of audited financial statements for the town of Gilbert, Arizon
Town of Gilbert heads-of-households survey : attitudes on planning and services 2010
No full textabstract: The results of a late 2010 telephone survey of 502 residents of Gilbert, to determine resident attitudes to growth and development, town policies, allocation of tax dollars, town services and general satisfaction with the quality of life in Gilbert, Arizon
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Rivera on June 15, 2016.
No full textGilbert Rivera is a retired energy professional, author, and activist. He and his wife have lived in the historically black Rosewood neighborhood of Austin for over 30 years. Gilbert was a member of the Brown Berets in Austin and other Chicano civil rights groups. In his interview, he talks about his early years; and resistance against rules against Spanish in schools
Round dancing,
No full textGilbert, a well-known dancing master, notes that his book will deal only with round dances, and for other dances or rules of etiquette, the reader should turn elsewhere. After a brief discussion of the positions of the feet, the author discusses, in some length, the waltz position. The manual gives the directions for a large number of waltz, polka, galop, redowa, and mazurka variations--many of which are not described in other contemporary dance literature
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