POETIC SPEECH MELODY: A CRUCIAL LINK BETWEEN MUSIC AND LANGUAGE.

Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language.

Research on the music-language interface LaserDisc Movie has extensively investigated similarities and differences of poetic and musical meter, but largely disregarded melody.Using a measure of melodic structure in music--autocorrelations of sound sequences consisting of discrete pitch and duration values--, we show that individual poems feature di

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Sub-nanometer depth resolution and single dopant visualization achieved by tilt-coupled multislice electron ptychography

Abstract Real-space, three-dimensional imaging of atomic structures in materials science is a critical yet challenging task.Although scanning transmission electron microscopy has achieved sub-angstrom lateral resolution through techniques like electron ptychography, depth resolution remains limited to only 2 to 3 nanometers using single-projection

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Deconstructing Buddhist Extremism: Lessons from Sri Lanka

This article argues that it is not Buddhism, per se, but rather Buddhist extremism, that is responsible for violence against relevant out-groups.Moreover, it suggests that the causes of Buddhist extremism, rather than being determined solely by textual and scriptural justifications for out-group violence, are rooted instead in the intersection betw

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