bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Developing flexibility to meet the challenges of interpreting in film festivals
Authors: Merlini Raffaela 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
The focus of this chapter is on an under-investigated setting of professional interpreting practice, namely Film Festival Interpreting, which is subsumed here under the wider field of “broadcast interpreting” on three counts: the multiplicity of communication levels; the interpreters’ professional exposure; and reference to an “ethics of entertainment”. In line with the rationale of the present volume, the suggested teaching approach addresses only those interpreting tasks that are brought together by the dialogic format of face-to-face spontaneous interaction, involving the use of the short consecutive mode. More specifically, the chapter deals with on-stage talk between the host and the festival’s special guests introducing gala screenings and the awarding of prizes, and both on-air and off-air one-to-one press interviews with actors, directors, or jury members. Given the different expectations, constraints, and requirements characterizing these settings, students are taught to develop the ability to select, autonomously and in full awareness of the specific “environmental conditions”, the interpreting behaviour which is best suited to the unfolding of any given exchange. This flexibility is achieved through a progression of learning activities going from a theoretical discussion of context-specific interactional features, to the analysis of video-recorded authentic data, to role-play practice.
Dialogue interpreting on television
Authors: Dal Fovo Eugenia , Falbo Caterina 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
Television is one of Dialogue Interpreting’s privileged settings. Televised talk show interaction is show aimed at entertaining off-screen viewers. The very existence of an off-screen audience affects every action performed by on-screen interlocutors, whose primary goal is providing entertainment. Interpreters actively participate in the interaction, co-constructing it together with host and guest(s). Television interpreters divest themselves of their traditional invisibility and acquire a higher degree of autonomy, although still abiding by the show and entertainment principles. The pedagogic relevance of our data is its awareness-raising potential on the additional challenge represented by the interpreter acting as on-screen participant, thus encouraging students’ critical reasoning and stimulating meta-translational and interactional observations rather than a merely lexical and propositional analysis of the interpreter’s turns.
Bogan as a keyword of contemporary Australia
Authors: Rowen Roslyn 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
This chapter studies the word bogan as a cultural keyword of contemporary Australian public discourse. The word bogan is specific to Australian English, with its closest counterpart in other Englishes being chav in British English and white trash or redneck in American English. Through a semantic analysis of the word, this chapter demonstrates that the social category of “bogans” remains a negative concept, denoting a certain group of people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds who are car-loving, prone to violence and have a certain bogan outlook on life. However, the chapter also shows that in contemporary Australian discourse this originally negative concept can be transformed into a way of self-identification, and as a way of positively embracing Australian nationalism. This analysis is supported by studies in the ethnopragmatics and historical pragmatics of Australian English, which show a general tendency to value the “shared ordinariness” of people and to discursively “heroise” the little man, and the semi-criminal person. Applying the NSM approach to linguistic and cultural analysis, this chapter provides new analyses of the meaning of bogan, and cultural scripts related to the concept. It also opens up the study of the emergence of new cultural keywords, and on the semantic and discursive diversity within Anglo Englishes.
Kawaii discourse
Authors: Asano-Cavanagh Yuko 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
With a point of departure in the Japanese keyword kawaii, roughly, “cute”, this chapter explores contemporary Japanese social discourse. Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage to explicate kawaii, the two kawaii compounds ita-kawaii and otona-kawaii and the related keywords itai and otona, this study breaks new ground into the understanding of the conceptual basis of kawaii and its elaborations in discourse. As the conceptual configurations of kawaii and related concept are analysed, a view on Japanese socialization and gendered discourse is simultaneously developed, and the value of ‘being kawaii’ is being scrutinized through the stability and innovations of kawaii in discourse.
Embedding verbs and subjunctive mood
Authors: Baunaz Lena 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
I give a uniform account of French mood from a semantic and nano-syntactic perspective by revising the criteria for the distribution of indicative vs. subjunctive mood. I claim that the subjunctive is selected by the semantic property of emotivity encoded in the main clause verb. I develop a definition and a syntactic representation of emotive vs. non-emotive verbs and a set of diagnostics for the two classes. I also reexamine the notion of veridicality and show that it is not the determining factor in the choice of mood (contra Giannakidou 1998, 2009, a.o.).
Towards a unified treatment of Spanish copulas
Authors: Arche María J. , Fábregas Antonio , Marín Rafael 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
This paper sets the basis for a uniform account of the alternation between the two Spanish copulas (ser and estar) in adjectival and passive clauses. While the copular contrast has been attributed to the different properties of adjectives (e.g. individual vs. stage level) and to an eventive vs. resultative stative dichotomy in passives, this work shows that they all behave alike regarding their temporal interpretation. We derive such uniformity from the syntactic properties of the copulas themselves: estar includes an additional component ser lacks that makes everything it merges with stative, with particular temporoaspectual properties.
Laísmo and “le-for-les”
Authors: Ausín Adolfo , Fernández-Rubiera Francisco J. 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
This paper discusses and analyzes the syntactic correlation between three different phenomena in Spanish: The presence of the accusative clitic, the presence/absence of number agreement in the dative clitic (a phenomenon called “le-for-les”), and the presence/absence of gender agreement in the dative clitic in laísta dialects. Assuming that accusative clitics manifest exclusively an agreement morpheme and that dative clitics can be decomposed into an applicative morpheme and an optional agreement morpheme, we argue for a unified account of these structures as follows: The presence of the accusative clitic and obligatory agreement in the dative are reflexes of the realization of an agreement morpheme in the structure. The analysis we propose also accounts uniformly for the unavailability of “la-for-las” or partial agreement in laísta dialects.
The morphological markedness of φ
Authors: Torcolacci Giuseppe 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
This paper investigates the morphological markedness of φ features encoded on perfective auxiliaries in a subset of Upper Southern Italian dialects (USIDs).
Following a Distributed Morphology approach (cf. Halle & Marantz 1993, 1994, a.o.), we treat perfective auxiliaries in USIDs as syntactic heads composed of Tense and φ features whose phonological entries are inserted at PF by means of a process called Spell-Out.
Here, we argue that the overt marking of φ features attested on perfective auxiliaries in a group of USIDs depends on the application of a post-syntactic operation called Default Marking, according to which a dedicated set of φ features gets overtly marked only if its grade of markedness is uniform with the one expressed by Tense.
Voice quality transfer in the production of Spanish heritage speakers and English L2 learners of Spanish
Authors: Kim Ji Young 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
The present study examines the use of creaky voice in the Spanish of two groups of Spanish-English bilinguals, namely, U.S. heritage speakers of Mexican Spanish and English L2 learners of Spanish. In American English, creaky voice is used utterance-finally, especially among young women, while it has rarely been found in Mexican Spanish. Participants’ H1-H2 values in utterance-final position were calculated to measure the degree of creaky voice and the values were compared to those of monolingual speakers of Mexican Spanish. Results showed that while monolinguals did not use creaky voice, both heritage speakers and L2 learners did, especially the female speakers. The findings imply that, like other linguistic features, voice quality can be transferred from one language to another.
Null subjects in the early acquisition of English by child heritage speakers of Spanish
Authors: Austin Jennifer , Sánchez Liliana , Perez-Cortes Silvia 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
This paper investigates the development of English and Spanish subject production in 8 heritage bilingual children (age range: 4;1–5;3; mean age: 4;7). Oral production of overt and null subjects was assessed using a picture-based story re-telling task and a description task. Subjects were coded according to type (overt or null), and pragmatic function (new information, topic continuation, recovery, contrast and change of topic). Results indicate a robust distribution of pragmatically appropriate subjects in Spanish; however, non adult-like null subjects were also found in a subset of the English utterances. We propose that cross-linguistic influence from Spanish encouraged children to have more than one grammar available (Amaral & Roeper 2014), with the option to treat English as a null-subject language.
The processing of intrasentential anaphoric subject pronouns in L2 Spanish
Authors: Comínguez Juan P. , Sagarra Nuria , Bel Aurora , García-Alcaraz Estela 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
This paper examines whether L2 learners of Spanish can attain native-like interpretive and parsing patterns in intrasentential subject anaphor resolution, and the extent to which these patterns are modulated by L1 transfer. Adult advanced L2 learners of Spanish with different L1s (Moroccan Arabic, a null-subject language, and English, a non-null subject language) completed an experiment utilizing online (the moving window paradigm) and offline (answers to comprehension questions) techniques. Both Arabic and English learners of Spanish performed in a native-like way at the interpretive and parsing levels. These patterns suggest that L1 transfer plays no crucial role when interpreting and processing intrasentential anaphoric subjects at least at the advanced level.
Exempt anaphors and logophoricity in French
Authors: Charnavel Isabelle 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
The goal of this paper is to account for instances of anaphors that appear to be exempt from Condition A, based on the French anaphors son propre (‘his own’) and lui-même (≈ ‘himself’). Drawing on specific tests, I show that such anaphors must be anteceded by logophoric centers, specifically either by attitude holders or by empathy loci. This generalization is explained if we suppose the existence of silent logophoric operators that corefer with the antecedent and locally bind the anaphor: apparently exempt anaphors are in fact not exempt. This accounts for why they have the same form as anaphors standardly obeying Condition A: they are one and the same element. Their specific distribution and interpretation derives from their silent logophoric binder.
What’s up with dative experiencers?
Authors: Fábregas Antonio , Jiménez-Fernández Ángel L. , Tubino Mercedes 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
In this paper we discuss the argument structure of psych verbs in connection with information structure, particularly object experiencer psych verbs (OEPVs), which select an accusative and/or dative argument. We propose that the natural order available in all-focus sentences for dative OEPVs is OVS, whereas the order for accusative OEPVs is SVO. Any rearrangement of these two patterns is caused by a different information structure interpretation.
Recursion in Brazilian Portuguese complex compounds
Authors: Guzzo Natália Brambatti 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
This paper reports on a preliminary production experiment in order to argue that word-word compounds with a left or right prosodic adjunct in Brazilian Portuguese (e.g.,
porta-guarda-chuva ‘umbrella holder’, lit. holder keep rain, and mico-leão-dourado
‘golden-lion-tamarin’, lit. tamarin lion golden, in which the adjunct is in bold) are prosodized recursively. It assumes that word-word compounds in BP correspond to composite groups, the prosodic domain between the phonological word and the phonological phrase proposed by Vogel (2008, 2009), based on the observation that word-word compounds display phonological behaviour that is distinct from the behaviour of both regular words (i.e., non-compounds) and other composite structures in the language. The preliminary experiment involved the production of sentences containing complex compounds with left adjunction, complex compounds with right adjunction, coordinate compounds and coordinate phrases by native speakers of BP (n = 3). The results indicate that compounds with adjunction have specific acoustic profiles, which differ from the acoustic profile of both coordinate compounds and phrases. The analysis supports both prosodic recursion and the introduction of an additional prosodic domain, two views on prosodic configuration that are traditionally considered to be mutually exclusive.
Does gender agreement carry a production cost?
Authors: Lipski John M. 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
The present study examines the tradeoff between the on-line construction of modifier-noun gender agreement and the automatization of agreement, through the study of bilingual speakers of Spanish and the Afro-Colombian creole language Palenquero, whose lexicon is highly cognate with Spanish, but which lacks gender agreement. The study focuses on L1 Spanish speakers who are acquiring Palenquero as L2, since when switching from the gender-agreeing L1 to the gender-less L2, the persistence or absence of gender agreement in cognate items can be taken as an indirect measure of the cost differential between producing morphosyntactic agreement and suppressing the carryover of obligatory agreement to the L2. The results of experiments conducted with bilingual Spanish-Palenquero speakers in San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia reveal the tenacity of Spanish gender agreement among L2 Palenquero speakers; heritage Palenquero speakers’ retention of gender agreement falls between traditional speakers and L2 speakers.
TP ellipsis with polarity particles
Authors: Matos Gabriela 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
TP-ellipsis with polarity particles exhibits island effects not only in cases of long-distance movement of the remnant but also when the remnant does not cross any island, showing that some non-overt element moves from the elided TP. Also in non-island contexts, TP-ellipsis with non-local antecedents is sensitive to finiteness. Correlating these properties I will argue that the null-T, the head of the elided TP, moves, for scope reasons, to the topmost sentence that relates the elliptical site to the sentence containing its antecedent. The resulting T-chains, which must preserve the finiteness value of each link, constitute a requirement for the identification of the elliptical-TP.
Presence of the voiced labiodental fricative segment [v] in Texas Spanish
Authors: Trovato Adriano 
Published: October 2017

Abstract
The objective of this study is to analyze the production of voiced labial consonants from an auditory and acoustic perspective in the Spanish of speakers recorded in The Spanish in Texas Corpus Project (Bullock & Toribio 2013). For example, the phrase la vaca ‘the cow’ might be realized as [la.'va.ka] in El Paso, Texas as opposed to the standard Mexican Spanish pronunciation [la.'βa.ka]. While a similar pronunciation is attested in some specific varieties, such as in New Mexican (Torres Cacoullos & Ferreira 2000) or Paraguayan (Lipski 1994) Spanish, it is otherwise rare in the Spanish speaking world, where the oral voiced labial phoneme /b/ is usually realized as a bilabial approximant [β], as in la vaca, or occlusive [b] consonant, as in cien vacas ‘one hundred cows’ [sjẽm.'ba.kas].
The aim of the current paper is to establish if the Texas Spanish speakers from the corpus (1) produce an auditorily and visually perceptible distinction between [v] and [β]/[b], and (2) make an acoustic distinction between [v] and [β]/[b] that correlates with the perception of different categories. Furthermore, this investigation (3) analyzes the linguistic and social factors that condition the use of [v] versus [β] and [b]. The influence of the English language is a fundamental factor that must be taken into account; on the other hand, the realization of /b/ as the voiced labiodental allophone [v] might be an archaism inherited from Old Spanish and preserved in West Texas dialects.
In pursuing these research aims, 850 tokens from video-recorded interviews with 17 participants were submitted to auditory, visual, and acoustic analysis. The results will inform that there are two perceptible categories, labiodental vs. bilabial, and that these also constitute separate acoustic categories.
Willingness to pay for preserving local beaches: the role of framing, attitudes and local identification / Voluntad de pagar para preservar las playas locales: el papel del encuadre, la actitud y la identificación local
Authors: Fornara Ferdinando , Caddeo Pierluigi 
Published: October 2017

This research concerns the impact of cognitive (i.e., framing issues) and psychosocial (i.e., environmental attitudes and place identity) dimensions on people’s Willingness To Pay (WTP) for preservation and improvement of a ‘local’ environmental public good, i.e., local beaches. After a pilot study, a field experiment ( N = 102) was carried out in order to verify the effects on WTP of: (1) the reminder about the involvement of other people for preserving ‘local’ beaches; (2) attitudes towards the environmental good; and (3) local identity. Results confirmed the reminder effect, so that individuals reminded of other contributors are willing to pay less than individuals who were not reminded. Positive attitudes towards local beaches are associated to higher WTP for preserving them, but this emerged only in those residents showing a higher local identification.
Three good things in nature: noticing nearby nature brings sustained increases in connection with nature / Tres cosas buenas de la naturaleza: prestar atención a la naturaleza cercana produce incrementos prolongados en conexión con la naturaleza
Authors: Richardson Miles , Sheffield David 
Published: October 2017

Connecting people more fully with nature is emerging as a societal issue owing to the state of nature, links to pro-environmental behaviour and benefits to wellbeing. Simple, low-cost interventions that deliver sustained increases in nature connectedness would be valuable. Participants ( n = 50) noted three good things in nature each day for five days and a control group noted three factual things ( n = 42). The intervention group showed sustained and significant increases in nature connectedness compared to the control group. Increases in nature connectedness were associated with psychological health improvement in the intervention group. Noting the good things in nature each day can deliver sustained increases in people’s connection with nature.
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Predicts Cardiovascular Events in Hypertensive Patients With Coronary Artery Calcifications
Authors: Grossman Chagai , Levin Michael , Koren-Morag Nira , Bornstein Gill , Leibowitz Avshalom , Ben-Zvi Ilan , Shemesh Joseph , Grossman Ehud 
Published: October 2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND
Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is associated with increased cardiovascular (CV) risk. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an independent risk factor for CV events. Our aim was to estimate the relative CV risk of LVH in the presence of CAC.

METHODS
We included asymptomatic hypertensive patients who were enrolled in the calcification arm of the INSIGHT (International Nifedipine Study Intervention as Goal for Hypertension Therapy). Patients had baseline echocardiography and computed tomography to assess CAC. The primary end-point was the first CV event.

RESULTS
Two hundred and fifty-two subjects (mean age 64.7 ± 5.5 years, 54% men) were followed for a mean of 13.3 ± 2.6 years. 72 patients (28.5%) had LVH and 159 patients (63%) had CAC. During follow up, 89 patients had a first CV event. The rate of CV events was higher in those with than in those without CAC (43.4% vs. 21.5%, P &lt; 0.01) and in those with than in those without LVH (44% vs. 31.6%, P &lt; 0.01). However, LVH had no effect on CV events in the absence of CAC, whereas LVH almost doubled the rate of CV events (61.4% vs. 36.5%, P &lt; 0.01) in the presence of CAC. In comparison to patients without CAC and without LVH the hazard ratio for CV event in those with LVH was 1.46 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.50–4.21) in those without CAC and 4.4 (95% CI, 2.02–9.56) in those with CAC.

CONCLUSIONS
LVH and CAC independently predict CV events in asymptomatic hypertensive patients. However, the risk of LVH is mainly observed in those with CAC.
PyDREAM: high-dimensional parameter inference for biological models in python
Authors: Shockley Erin M , Vrugt Jasper A , Lopez Carlos F 
Published: October 2017

Abstract

Summary
Biological models contain many parameters whose values are difficult to measure directly via experimentation and therefore require calibration against experimental data. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are suitable to estimate multivariate posterior model parameter distributions, but these methods may exhibit slow or premature convergence in high-dimensional search spaces. Here, we present PyDREAM, a Python implementation of the (Multiple-Try) Differential Evolution Adaptive Metropolis [DREAM(ZS)] algorithm developed by Vrugt and ter Braak (2008) and Laloy and Vrugt (2012). PyDREAM achieves excellent performance for complex, parameter-rich models and takes full advantage of distributed computing resources, facilitating parameter inference and uncertainty estimation of CPU-intensive biological models.

Availability and implementation
PyDREAM is freely available under the GNU GPLv3 license from the Lopez lab GitHub repository at http://github.com/LoLab-VU/PyDREAM.

Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.