MARKERS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AT THE PROSODY/PRAGMATICS INTERFACE. EVIDENCE FROM CORPORA OF SPONTANEOUS SPEECH INTERACTIONS

Markers of schizophrenia at the prosody/pragmatics interface. Evidence from corpora of spontaneous speech interactions

The speech of individuals with schizophrenia exhibits atypical prosody and pragmatic dysfunctions, producing monotony.The paper presents the outcomes of corpus-based research on the prosodic features of the pathology as they manifest in real-life spontaneous interactions.The research relies on a corpus of schizophrenic speech recorded during psychi

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The diversity of energy consumption structure, energy efficiency and carbon emissions: Evidence from Shaanxi, China.

As a major energy sources province in China, Shaanxi Province ranks top three in terms of raw coal production in China and undertakes the important task of ensuring national energy supply and security.Affected by the endowment of energy resources, fossil energy accounts for a large proportion of the energy consumption structure in Shaanxi Province,

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Continent-wide decoupling of Y-chromosomal genetic variation from language and geography in native South Americans.

Numerous studies of human populations in Europe and Asia have revealed a concordance between their extant genetic structure and the prevailing regional pattern of geography and language.For native South Americans, however, such evidence has been lacking so far.Therefore, we examined the relationship between Y-chromosomal genotype on the one hand, a

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