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La ricerca sull’intonazione del sardo: stato attuale e prospettive future.
No full textQuest’articolo ha due obiettivi principali: offrire una panoramica sulle ricerche attuali nell’ambito dell’intonazione del sardo e analizzare alcuni possibili benefici applicativi della ricerca sulla prosodia. Tra gli aspetti più caratteristici dell’intonazione del sardo segnaliamo il mancato utilizzo sia del tono alto per marcare continuazione che dei toni ascendenti nelle frasi interrogative, associato all’uso abbondante di toni extra alti (nelle frasi interrogative) e di prominenze iniziali (nelle dichiarative di focus contrastivo e nei vocativi). È inoltre interessante ricordare che spesso in sardo l’accento nucleare non è realizzato sull’elemento più a destra, ma su quello più a sinistra. Tra le varietà considerate, il logudorese e il campidanese, non sono state riscontrate chiare differenze dialettali di intonazione, differenze invece riscontrabili nel maggior uso per il logudorese della particella interrogativa a, e nell’uso relativamente più raro in campidanese del troncamento vocativo. Per quanto riguarda la ricerca linguistica teorica e applicata siamo in grado di immaginare un futuro pieno di possibili applicazioni pratiche per tutte le lingue, sardo incluso. Il nostro auspicio è che la raccolta di dati su quest’ultima lingua e la loro applicazione in ambiti come la didattica e le nuove tecnologie possano favorirne un uso che tenda sempre più alla piena normalità
Contacte lingüístic i entonació a Sardenya. Contact, variation and change in Romance and beyond
No full textAbstract. Catalan has been spoken in the Sardinian city of l’Alguer (Alghero in Italian) ever since the city was conquered by the Crown of Aragon in 1354 and subsequently repopulated by Catalan-speakers from different areas. This Catalan koiné was later modified by Sardinian, both as a language of contact and as L1 of many immigrants to the city. This Catalan variety is also said to have been modified by standard Italian, especially from the second half of the 20th century. This paper is concerned with the effects that language contact between Algherese Catalan and Sardinian may have exerted on the intonational phonology of Algherese, as evidenced in recordings of the speech of 176 speakers (7 Algherese speakers, 9 Sardinian speakers and 160 Catalan speakers from outside l’Alguer). Data analysis shows that the seven nuclear configurations described for Sardinian are also found in Algherese and are associated with the same linguistic functions. However, half of these nuclear configurations are also present in the varieties of Catalan spoken outside l’Alguer. In addition, we note a pattern that seems to be specific to Algherese. This is the tonal configuration L+H* !H% used in the so-called vocative chant, in which the nuclear accent L+H* can be associated with the first syllable in disyllabic truncated vocatives (e.g., MaL+H*ri’!H%!, MiL+H*que’!H%!). This tonal association seems to suggest that the first syllable of the truncated vocative is the stressed syllable on the surface. These data show that Algherese, as a contact variety, has not only been influenced by neighbouring languages but is also undergoing language-internal changes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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