The role of multiple acoustic properties in specifying the internal structure of phonetic categories

1991 ◽  
Vol 89 (4B) ◽  
pp. 1997-1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Hodgson ◽  
Joanne L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
Phonetic Categories

Zeit und gutes Leben

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-513
Author(s):  
Holmer Steinfath
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Good Life ◽  
External Factor ◽  
Life Time ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Gutes Leben

Time is a neglected subject in recent, especially analytically minded reflections on the good life. The article highlights the fundamental role of time and temporality for an adequate understanding of the good life. Time functions both as an external factor with which we have to reckon in our practical deliberations and as an internal structure of living our lives. It is argued that striving for a good life also means striving for being in harmony with the time of one's life. The exploration of this idea allows to link analytical with phenomenological approaches to time and good life.

Arena Expansion and the Transnationalization of Business Advocacy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham L. Newman ◽  
Elliot Posner
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
International Finance ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Banking Regulation ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
Individual Industry ◽  
Industry Associations

Chapter 5 shifts the focus from soft law’s effects on great powers to its impact on influential business groups. It argues that by expanding arenas of contestation to the transnational level, soft law transforms business representation as well as individual industry associations. The chapter’s empirical focus is on banking regulation from the 1980s to the 2000s. Much of the literature on transnational banking standards centers on the role of industry associations and, in particular, on the Institute of International Finance. In this chapter, the authors explain the rise of direct industry participation in and influence over Basel-based standard setting. They show that the orientation and priorities of the IIF as well as its membership and internal structure were deeply conditioned by 1980s international soft law. The IIF’s transformation subsequently set off a series of changes to the ecology of financial industry associations and the politics of financial regulation.

Anomalous narrowing of the shape of the structural process in derivatives of trehalose at high pressure. The role of the internal structure

2021 ◽  
pp. 116321
Author(s):  
Dawid Heczko ◽  
Joanna Grelska ◽  
Karolina Jurkiewicz ◽  
Patrycja Spychalska ◽  
Anna Kasprzycka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Structural Process ◽  
Derivatives Of

scholarly journals Anti-migrant Islamophobia in Europe. Social roots, mechanisms and actors

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (53) ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Fabio Perocco
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mass Media

Abstract During the last two decades of rising anti-migrant racism in Europe, Islamophobia has proven to be the highest, most acute, and widely spread form of racism. The article shows how anti-migrant Islamophobia is a structural phenomenon in European societies and how its internal structure has specific social roots and mechanisms of functioning. Such an articulate and interdependent set of key themes, policies, practices, discourses, and social actors it is intended to inferiorise and marginalise Muslim immigrants while legitimising and reproducing social inequalities affecting the majority of them. The article examines the social origins of anti-migrant Islamophobia and the modes and mechanisms through which it naturalises inequalities; it focuses on the main social actors involved in its production, specifically on the role of some collective subjects as anti-Muslim organizations and movements, far-right parties, best-selling authors, and the mass-media.

COLLABORATECOM SPECIAL ISSUE ANALYZING DISTRIBUTED WHITEBOARD INTERACTIONS

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 199-220
Author(s):  
LUTZ GERICKE ◽  
RAJA GUMIENNY ◽  
CHRISTOPH MEINEL
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Distributed Work ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Simplified Analysis ◽  
Digital Whiteboard

We present the digital whiteboard system Tele-Board, which automatically captures all interactions made on the all-digital whiteboard and thus offers possibilities for a fast interpretation of usage characteristics. Analyzing team work at whiteboards is a time-consuming and error-prone process if manual interpretation techniques are applied. In a case study, we demonstrate how to conduct and analyze whiteboard experiments with the help of our system. The study investigates the role of video compared to an audio-only connection for distributed work settings. With the simplified analysis of communication data, we can prove that the video teams were more active than the audio teams and the distribution of whiteboard interaction between team members was more balanced. This way, an automatic analysis can not only support manual observations and codings, but also give insights that cannot be achieved with other systems. Beyond the overall view on one sessions focusing on key figures, it is also possible to find out more about the internal structure of a session.

scholarly journals The role of indexical cues in the distributional learning of phonetic categories.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla L. Hudson Kam
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Speech Sounds ◽  
The Real ◽  
Distributional Learning ◽  
Distributional Cues ◽  
Phonetic Categories

Theories of the distributional learning of phonetic categories assume that input provides reliable distributional cues for the categorization of speech sounds. In the real world, however, not all talkers produce exactly the same distributions of speech sounds, and the talker-dependent variation may undermine the reliability of the distributional cues. In this study, we investigated how learners might overcome talker-dependent variation. Specifically, we tested whether adults can learn two phonetic categories from input in which talker-dependent variation introduces potential ambiguities into the categorization of speech sounds. The results suggest that they can overcome this kind of ambiguity by using indexical information (i.e., the identity of talkers).

Role of Acoustic Properties in Biomedical Active Noise Control

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Sajil C. K. ◽  
Achuthsankar S. Nair
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Noise Control ◽  
Active Noise Control ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
Reflection Coefficients ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Active Noise ◽  
Source Signal

Active noise control (ANC) systems are tailored for user-specific scenarios which are required in biomedical applications due to the physical restrictions in the placement of sensors and actuators. This study examines the role of spectral flatness of acoustic channels and room reflection coefficients in ANC performance. Each room has a unique characteristic response in transforming a source signal. By employing preliminary measurements and numerical simulation, the authors show that improved noise control is possible by optimizing room reverberation and spectral flatness of the secondary acoustic channel. This result has potential application in improving existing ANC systems in biomedical applications like fMRI.

Acoustic Features of Rhesus Vocalizations and Their Representation in the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex

2007 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 1470-1484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yale E. Cohen ◽  
Frédéric Theunissen ◽  
Brian E. Russ ◽  
Patrick Gill
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
Acoustic Features ◽  
Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Communication Signals ◽  
First Order ◽  
Natural Stimuli ◽  
Spectrotemporal Receptive Field ◽  
Auditory Objects

Communication is one of the fundamental components of both human and nonhuman animal behavior. Auditory communication signals (i.e., vocalizations) are especially important in the socioecology of several species of nonhuman primates such as rhesus monkeys. In rhesus, the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vPFC) is thought to be part of a circuit involved in representing vocalizations and other auditory objects. To further our understanding of the role of the vPFC in processing vocalizations, we characterized the spectrotemporal features of rhesus vocalizations, compared these features with other classes of natural stimuli, and then related the rhesus-vocalization acoustic features to neural activity. We found that the range of these spectrotemporal features was similar to that found in other ensembles of natural stimuli, including human speech, and identified the subspace of these features that would be particularly informative to discriminate between different vocalizations. In a first neural study, however, we found that the tuning properties of vPFC neurons did not emphasize these particularly informative spectrotemporal features. In a second neural study, we found that a first-order linear model (the spectrotemporal receptive field) is not a good predictor of vPFC activity. The results of these two neural studies are consistent with the hypothesis that the vPFC is not involved in coding the first-order acoustic properties of a stimulus but is involved in processing the higher-order information needed to form representations of auditory objects.

Segmental complexity and phonological government

Phonology ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Kaye ◽  
John Harris
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Phonological Representations

In this article, I explore a class of phonological reduction phenomena which highlight the role of segmental complexity in phonological government. I discuss a condition on phonological representations which requires that a segment occupying a governed position be no more complex than its governor, where complexity is straightforwardly calculated in terms of the number of elements of which a segment is composed. More generally, the present enterprise is to be seen as part of a wider programme in which reduction phenomena, including those traditionally referred to as lenition, are examined for the light they shed on the internal structure of consonants.

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