Sökning: "Swedish and native speakers of English"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade orden Swedish and native speakers of English.
1. Swedish School-leaving Students' Oral Proficiency in English : Grading of Production and Analysis of Performance
Sammanfattning : This study deals with the testing and grading of Swedish school leaving students’ oral proficiency in English, and with certain aspects of these students’ linguistic competence. The analyses and results are based on material drawn from an assessment project carried out at Gothenburg University in 1993. LÄS MER
2. On the Relative Order of Adverbs in the I-domain: A study of English and Swedish
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a theoretical and empirical investigation of the ordering of adverbs in the I-domain. Within the generative-minimalist framework, adverbs have traditionally been analysed as adjuncts, adjoined to the syntactic structure in semantically appropriate positions (e.g. Jackendoff 1972). LÄS MER
3. ”Completely Headless”. Modification of adjectives in Swedish advanced learners' English
Sammanfattning : This is a corpus-based, empirical study, which investigates Swedish advanced learners’ written and spoken English with regard to modification of adjectives, both reinforcing (e.g. totally different, very nice) and attenuating (e.g. LÄS MER
4. The priority of temporal aspects in L2-Swedish prosody : Studies in perception and production
Sammanfattning : Foreign accent can be everything from hardly detectable to rendering the second language speech unintelligible. It is assumed that certain aspects of a specific target language contribute more to making the foreign accented speech intelligible and listener friendly, than others. LÄS MER
5. Permeable islands : A contrastive study of Swedish and English adjunct clause extractions
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is concerned with extraction from adjunct clauses in Swedish and English. The topic is of interest because adjunct clauses are traditionally considered to be strong islands for extraction across languages (the Adjunct Condition). LÄS MER