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Phonological Representation and Phonetic Phasing

Affricates and Laryngeals

By: Wolfgang Kehrein

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Phonological Representation and Phonetic Phasing

Affricates and Laryngeals

By: Wolfgang Kehrein

This monograph contains two detailed case studies dealing with the phonetics and phonology of affricates and laryngeals. Based on a survey of 281 languages it states a number of universal generalizations which go counter to common assumptions in the phonological and phonetic literature. Most importantly, (1) a phonological concept >affricate Based on the empirical findings the book addresses a number of theoretical issues as, e.g., the interaction of phonetics and phonology, or questions of phonological representation. It is claimed that phonetics fulfills important functions with regard to phonology: 'affrication' and laryngeal phasings (e.g. pre- vs. postaspiration) are presented as purely phonetic strategies which serve to make phonological specifications acoustically more salient. Finally, two revisions to current models of feature theory are proposed, both of which lead to a leaner structure of phonological segments: first, stricture contours are eliminated from phonological representation; second, the 'Laryngeal Node' is attached directly to onsets, nuclei, and codas. Die Monographie enthält zwei Einzelstudien zur Phonologie und Phonetik von Affrikaten und Laryngalen aus insgesamt 281 Sprachen. Die empirischen Ergebnisse widerlegen eine Reihe gängiger Lehrmeinungen, z.B.: (1) Affrikaten sind phonologisch ausschließlich Plosive, (2) Laryngale sind Eigenschaften prosodischer Domänen (Anlaut, Nukleus, Koda), (3) Phonetische Strategien (Affrikatisierung, laryngale Phasierung) dienen der akustischen Verstärkung phonologischer Kontraste. Auf theoretischer Ebene werden Fragen der phonologischen Repräsentation (Merkmalskonturen, prososodische Lizensierung etc.) sowie der Schnittstelle von Phonologie und Phonetik diskutiert.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110911639

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Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues

By: Johannes Pittermann,Angela Pittermann,Wolfgang Minker

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Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues

By: Johannes Pittermann,Angela Pittermann,Wolfgang Minker

In this book, a novel approach that combines speech-based emotion recognition with adaptive human-computer dialogue modeling is described. With the robust recognition of emotions from speech signals as their goal, the authors analyze the effectiveness of using a plain emotion recognizer, a speech-emotion recognizer combining speech and emotion recognition, and multiple speech-emotion recognizers at the same time. The semi-stochastic dialogue model employed relates user emotion management to the corresponding dialogue interaction history and allows the device to adapt itself to the context, including altering the stylistic realization of its speech. This comprehensive volume begins by introducing spoken language dialogue systems and providing an overview of human emotions, theories, categorization and emotional speech. It moves on to cover the adaptive semi-stochastic dialogue model and the basic concepts of speech-emotion recognition. Finally, the authors show how speech-emotion recognizers can be optimized, and how an adaptive dialogue manager can be implemented. The book, with its novel methods to perform robust speech-based emotion recognition at low complexity, will be of interest to a variety of readers involved in human-computer interaction.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9048131294

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9789048131297

„And on this Rock I Will Build My Church“. A New Edition of Philip Schaff’s „History of the Christian Church“

From Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity to Medieval Christianity A.D. 311-1073

By: Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt

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„And on this Rock I Will Build My Church“. A New Edition of Philip Schaff’s „History of the Christian Church“

From Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity to Medieval Christianity A.D. 311-1073

By: Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt

This voluminous work on Church History by Philip Schaff (1819-1893) was originally published between 1858 and 1893 in eight volumes in the USA and covers the period from the beginnings of Biblical Christianity in A.D. 1 to the History of the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland (1517-1648). Being still a popular text in North America, this work had been out of print for over a century and has now been carefully edited and reformatted for republication in three volumes, each of them containing the text of two volumes of the original edition. Schaff’s work, unlike other works in the field, covers a multitude of church history-related aspects – from church doctrine, policy, events and processes to aspects of social moral and family life, arts and more. It is a very comprehensive text, extremely well-written and readable, rich in material and sources used, and attests to the excellence of protestant German theological scholarship under the influence of emerging Historical-Critical Biblical Exegesis at his time. This second volume covers the period from the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers to Medieval Christianity (A. D. 311-1073).

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disserta Verlag

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395935388X

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„And on this Rock I Will Build My Church“. A New Edition of Schaff’s „History of the Reformation 1517-1648“

By: Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt

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„And on this Rock I Will Build My Church“. A New Edition of Schaff’s „History of the Reformation 1517-1648“

By: Muhammad Wolfgang G. A. Schmidt

This voluminous work on Church History by Philip Schaff (1819-1893) was originally published between 1858 and 1893 in eight volumes in the USA and covers the period from the beginnings of Biblical Christianity in A.D. 1 to the History of the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland (1517-1648). Being still a popular text in North America, this work had been out of print for over a century and has now been carefully edited and reformatted for republication in four volumes, each of them containing the text of two volumes of the original edition. Schaff’s work, unlike other works in the field, covers a multitude of church history-related aspects - from church doctrine, policy, events and processes to aspects of social moral and family life, arts and more. This is the fourth and final volume in this series and is a special edition covering the period of the Reformation from 1517-1648 that ends with the Peace Treaty concluded 1648 in Münster, Westphalia, following the long period of the Thirty-Year War.

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Book's by Wolfgang Kehrein

Phonological Representation and Phonetic Phasing

Phonological Representation and Phonetic Phasing

Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues

Handling Emotions in Human-Computer Dialogues

„And on this Rock I Will Build My Church“. A New Edition of Philip Schaff’s „History of the Christian Church“

„And on this Rock I Will Build My Church“. A New Edition of Philip Schaff’s „History of the Christian Church“

„And on this Rock I Will Build My Church“. A New Edition of Schaff’s „History of the Reformation 1517-1648“

„And on this Rock I Will Build My Church“. A New Edition of Schaff’s „History of the Reformation 1517-1648“

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