Gotta Name’em All: an Experimental Study on the Sound Symbolism of Pokémon Names in Brazilian Portuguese

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 717-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahayana C. Godoy ◽  
Neemias Silva de Souza Filho ◽  
Juliana G. Marques de Souza ◽  
Hális A. N. França ◽  
Shigeto Kawahara
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 219-249
Author(s):  
Lílian Teixeira De Sousa

Os fenômenos de elipse são estudados a partir de duas hipóteses conflitantes: A hipótese semântica, que defende que a identifcação elipse-antecedente é de natureza semântica, não sendo necessário propor a existência de estrutura sintática; e a hipótese sintática, que argumenta a favor da existência de identifcação estrutural entre a elipse e o antecedente. Teorias alternativas têm relacionado condições de licenciamento de elipse a questões de estrutura informacional, especialmente considerando os conceitos de foco e tópico. Neste artigo, como forma de testar as hipóteses acima, realizou-se um estudo prosódico de sentenças elípticas produzidas por 12 falantes do PB do sexo feminino e com idade entre 20 e 35 anos. O teste consistiu de cinco sentenças para serem completadas pelos participantes e 28 imagens contendo duas cenas; em cada cena havia pelo menos um item diferente (ação, objeto ou sujeito). Os resultados mostraram um padrão interessante. No caso de elipse, a informação dada foi geralmente desacentuada, enquanto a informação contrastada (ação, objeto ou sujeito) foi entoacionalmente marcada por contorno alto (H) ou baixo-alto (LH). Se considerarmos que itens contrastivos são movidos para a periferia à esquerda, deixando um traço na posição original, então, pode-se deduzir que nesses casos há estrutura sintática desacentuada.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Miguel Oliveira Junior ◽  
Ayane Nazarela Santos de Almeida ◽  
René Alain Santana de Almeida ◽  
Oyedeji Musiliyu

This paper reports an experimental study on the impact of time-compressed speech on acceptability and intelligibility of utterances in Brazilian Portuguese. For the experiments, short audio sentences containing warning messages were used as stimuli. These sentences were recorded in a natural speech rate and then digitally manipulated to faster rates in a scalar fashion (from 9 to 19 syllables per second). Intelligibility and acceptability tests were then conducted with blind and sighted subjects. The results indicate that time-compressed speech has a significant impact on both acceptability and intelligibility of utterances for both groups of participants and that while blind subjects tended to give slightly higher acceptability rates across all speech rate conditions, sighted subjects performed better in the intelligibility experiment, what contradicts a trend that is often reported in the literature


2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-234

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2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mahayana C. Godoy ◽  
André Lucas Gomes ◽  
Gakuji Kumagai ◽  
Shigeto Kawahara

Author(s):  
Norio Baba ◽  
Norihiko Ichise ◽  
Syunya Watanabe

The tilted beam illumination method is used to improve the resolution comparing with the axial illumination mode. Using this advantage, a restoration method of several tilted beam images covering the full azimuthal range was proposed by Saxton, and experimentally examined. To make this technique more reliable it seems that some practical problems still remain. In this report the restoration was attempted and the problems were considered. In our study, four problems were pointed out for the experiment of the restoration. (1) Accurate beam tilt adjustment to fit the incident beam to the coma-free axis for the symmetrical beam tilting over the full azimuthal range. (2) Accurate measurements of the optical parameters which are necessary to design the restoration filter. Even if the spherical aberration coefficient Cs is known with accuracy and the axial astigmatism is sufficiently compensated, at least the defocus value must be measured. (3) Accurate alignment of the tilt-azimuth series images.


1962 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Quarrington ◽  
Jerome Conway ◽  
Nathan Siegel
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