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● jingle · plasma on the Sun vs stress in a word Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
prominence2 CONSTRUCTSProminence (solar)MOORE · SOLAR PROMINENCEProminence (stress)MO · PROSODIC PROMINENCE

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Astronomy

A cloud of cool, dense chromospheric plasma suspended in the corona by magnetic fields.

In solar physics a prominence is a cloud of relatively cool, dense plasma suspended above the photosphere and held against gravity by coronal magnetic fields; seen in projection against the bright disk the same structure appears dark and is called a filament (see Moore in The Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Jenkins and Keppens on the prominence/filament paradox). The referent is a magnetized plasma structure, with nothing in common but the word with the linguistic meaning of perceptual salience.[1][2]

Unit
One prominence, measured in height (Mm) and mass (kg).
Recovery means
Image the solar limb in H-alpha and identify suspended cool plasma.
Measured by
H-alpha and EUV imaging; spectroscopy of the suspended plasma.

Phonology

The perceptual salience of a syllable (stress / accent) relative to its neighbors.

In phonetics and phonology prominence is the degree to which a syllable stands out from its neighbors, the perceptual basis of stress and pitch accent, cued chiefly by duration, pitch and intensity, as in Mo's study of duration and intensity as cues to naive listeners' prominence. The referent is a graded property of speech perception. It shares only the word 'prominence' with the Sun's suspended plasma structure.[3]

Unit
One prominent syllable, scored on a graded prominence scale.
Recovery means
Have listeners mark which syllables stand out in an utterance.
Measured by
Acoustic analysis (duration, F0, intensity) plus perceptual rating.

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accent2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructssalience4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsstress6 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

  1. Moore, R. (n.d.). Solar prominence eruption. In The Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1888/0333750888/2282
  2. Jenkins, J. M., & Keppens, R. (2022). Resolving the solar prominence/filament paradox using the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Nature Astronomy, 6(8), 942-950. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-022-01705-z
  3. Mo, Y. (2008). Duration and intensity as perceptual cues for naive listeners' prominence and boundary perception. In Speech Prosody 2008 (pp. 739-742). ISCA. https://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2008-164

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