Their results show that there are a number of acoustic strategies for realizing communicative functions, predominantly based on global f0 and intensity and local sentence-final f0.
Subjects listened to sentences like Jane told her brother that he was exceptionally quick/slow, designed such that the alternative critical words were equally acceptable within the local sentence context.
In Vietnamese, previous studies have shown that there are a number of acoustic correlates for realizing sentence modalities, predominantly based on global f0 and intensity and local sentence-final f0 (Đỗ et al. 1998; Nguyễn and Boulakia 1999; Vũ et al. 2006; Brunelle et al., 2012).
The most discriminative features are local sentence features such as unigrams, bigrams and grammatical dependencies while features encoding the document structure, such as section headings, also play an important role for some of the categories.
> Since this task addresses the classification of sentences which are usually much shorter than paragraphs or the whole articles, the bag-of-words features from a local sentence tend to have high risk of data sparseness (18), which could result in a biased representation for low-frequency words and degrade the classification performance.
On Dec. 15, at 9 20 a.m. local time, Justice Landau read aloud Eichmann's sentence.
Although Landau was facing prison, the judge, citing his local involvement, sentenced him to time in a halfway house and under house arrest, according to news reports.
In 2012, the case of one Iranian cartoonist, Mahmoud Shokraye, drew international condemnation when a local court sentenced him to 25 lashes for insulting an MP.
In late August and early September, a local court sentenced three monks, one an uncle of Phuntsog, to sentences of 10, 11 and 13 years each in prison for what the authorities said were their roles in causing or aiding Phuntsog's death.
A local judge sentenced her to a hundred lashes — the official punishment for sex outside marriage.
