Phonology and intonation

The encoding standards for phonology and intonation are designed to facilitate consistent annotation of the phonological and intonational aspects of information structure, in languages across a range ofprosodic types. The guidelines are designed with the aim that a nonspecialist in phonology can both implement and interpret the resulting annotation

Information structure

The guidelines for Information Structure include instructions for the annotation of Information Status (or ‘givenness’), Topic, and Focus, building upon a basic syntactic annotation of nominal phrases and sentences. A procedure for the annotation of these features is proposed

The intonation of Manado Malay

"In this paper I will give an overview of the intonation of Manado Malay. Intonation is a topic that is often ignored in grammars of Indonesian languages. This is a serious shortcoming, as intonation is an essential part of the spoken language. The description that is presented here is based on the autosegmental-metrical framework developed by Pierrehumbert (1980), Beckman and Pierrehumbert (1986), and Ladd (1996).41 In this model, the tonal structure of an utterance is composed of edge tones, which are associated with the edges of prosodic domains, and pitch accents, which are associated with stressed syllables. In Manado Malay, there is typically no more than one pitch accent in an utterance. Beside this one focus-marking accent, discourse particles may appear to carry an accent as well, but I will argue that these are in fact edge tones. I will discuss the intonation of statements, questions, and a few more specialized constructions. I will also compare the intonation of Manado Malay with that of two other Indonesian languages

Towards a cross-linguistic production data archive: structure and exploration

Götze M, Skopeteas S, Roloff T, Stoel R. Towards a cross-linguistic production data archive: structure and exploration. In: Ten Cate B, Zeevat H, eds. Proceedings of the Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation 2005. Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol 4363. Berlin: Springer; 2007: 127-138

Questionnaire on Information Structure (QUIS): reference manual

The Questionnaire for Information Structure (QUIS) is designed for the investigation of information structure from a typological perspective. It provides a tool for the collection of natural linguistic data, both spoken and written, and, secondly, for the elaboration of grammars of information structure in genetically diverse languages

Questionnaire on Information Structure: Reference Manual

Skopeteas S, Fiedler I, Hellmuth S, et al. Questionnaire on Information Structure: Reference Manual. Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure. Vol 4. Potsdam: University of Potsdam; 2006.collection of field experiments for the investigation of information structur

Information structure

The guidelines for Information Structure include instructions for the annotation of Information Status (or 'givenness'), Topic, and Focus, building upon a basic syntactic annotation of nominal phrases and sentences. A procedure for the annotation of these features is proposed

SPS Slow Extraction Losses and Activation: Challenges and Possibilities for Improvement

In 2015 the highest integrated number of protons in the history of the North Area was slow extracted from the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) for the Fixed Target physics programme. At well over 1.10¹⁹ protons on target (POT), this represented the highest annual figure at SPS for almost two decades, since the West Area Neutrino Facility was operational some 20 years ago. The high intensity POT requests have continued into 2016-17 and look set to do so for the foreseeable future, especially in view of the proposed SPS Beam Dump Facility and experiments, e.g. SHiP*, which are requesting up to 4·10¹⁹ POT per year. Without significant improvements, the attainable annual POT will be limited to well below the total the SPS machine could deliver, due to activation of accelerator equipment and associated personnel dose limitations. In this contribution, the issues arising from the recent high activation levels are discussed along with the steps taken to understand, manage and mitigate these issues. The research avenues being actively pursued to improve the slow extraction related beam loss for present operation and future requests are outlined, and their relative merits discussed

usethesource/rascal-eclipse: 0.23.0

Eclipse IMP based IDE for the Rascal meta-programming language. See rascal project for Wiki, Issues and such