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1. Den omsorgsfulle ordmålaren : studier i Sven Jerrings radiospråk mot bakgrund av radions allmänna syn på språket under de första decennierna
Sammanfattning : When Sven Jerring passed away in 1979, he had been broadcasting for more than 55 years. He was the first true announcer; the first radio reporter. For decades, almost all important public events were broadcast to the Swedish public by Sven Jerring. LÄS MER
2. Towards conversational speech synthesis : Experiments with data quality, prosody modification, and non-verbal signals
Sammanfattning : The aim of a text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system is to generate a human-like speech waveform from a given input text. Current TTS sys- tems have already reached a high degree of intelligibility, and they can be readily used to read aloud a given text. For many applications, e.g. LÄS MER
3. Professionally Speaking - The prosodic and discourse structure of professional monologue in English
Sammanfattning : This thesis combines corpus-based, experimental and instrumental methods to investigate how professional speakers of English use prosody to signal important textual boundaries above the sentence level. In an initial study, prosodic features included in the transcriptions of the Spoken English Corpus, or readily derivable from these, are investigated. LÄS MER
4. Forensic comparison of voices, speech and speakers : tools and methods in forensic phonetics
Sammanfattning : This thesis has three main objectives. The first objective (A) includes Study I, which investigates the parameter fundamental frequency (F0) and its robustness in different acoustic contexts by using different measures. LÄS MER
5. Sackgasse oder Autobahn? Deutsch in Deutschland erweben. Zu Fortgeschrittenenvarietäten in L3 Deutsch erwachsener Schweden
Sammanfattning : Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the acquisition of L3 German by adult native speakers of Swedish living in Germany for 3 to >30 years (AO>18 years). These learners have different professions or study other subjects than languages at German universities. LÄS MER