MUST a poet know ilm-i-arooz or prosody? Some poets say no and argue that prosodic metres teach us to measure the poetic rhythms and patterns of sounds as they occur in a poetic line, but prosodic ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

For over 150 years, neuroscientists have known that a small region in the left frontal lobe—Broca's area—plays a crucial role in speech production. Named after French physician Paul Broca, who ...

We've known for decades that speech prosody is important for understanding language, and more recently there has also been a growing interest in other cues, such as gestures, which were previously ...

In the last weeks, Prosody version 13.0.1 was released with a few breaking changes. Lua 5.1 is not supported anymore, for example. I've built luarocks for Lua 5.3, openssl 3.0 and libexpat on my own, ...

KO, OR A SEASON ON EARTH (115 pp.) —Kenneth Koch—Grove (clothbound $3.50; paperback $1.45). Unlike long novels, long poems are firmly out of fashion, and in some ways the fact is regrettable. There is ...

The project’s goal is to create an American Sign Language (ASL) data resource that focuses on documenting visual prosody, which includes, for example, non-manual markers that convey meaning and ...

Cast your mind back to August, if you can. As that somewhat sun-less summer drew to an end and we pushed fed-up and forlorn deckchairs back into the shed, in Cardiff a newly acclaimed poet, Carwyn ...

I have been trying to get a JM server to run so that clients can connect which are behind a firewall blocking everything except ports 80 and 443. I have set up DNS so that video3.example.org and turn3 ...

The laugh-out-loud workplace comedy “30 Rock” (2006–2013) averaged more than seven jokes per minute, using the gamut of gags to get guffaws. Beyond a spectacular cast (Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy ...