Sökning: "Discourse-context"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Discourse-context.

  1. 1. Modelling Phone-Level Pronunciation in Discourse Context

    Författare :Per-Anders Jande; Rolf Carlson; Merle Horne; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Pronunciation modelling; Pronunciation variation; Discourse-context; Phone-level variation; Central standard Swedish; Spoken language annotation; Data-driven methods; Machine learning; Decision trees; Pronunciation lexicon development; Machine-readable lexicon; Phonology; Discourse; Lexicon; Language technology; Språkteknologi;

    Sammanfattning : Analytic knowledge about the systematic variation in a language has an important place in the description of the language. Such knowledge is interesting e.g. in the language teaching domain, as a background for various types of linguistic studies, and in the development of more dynamic speech technology applications. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Towards a discourse-based model of English sentence intonation

    Författare :Merle Horne; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; intonation; discourse; text-to-speech; information focus; pitch; F0; grammatical functions; coreference; prominence; baseline; phonological grid; F0 range; declination; contrastive prominence; syntactic parallelism; phonological phrase; rhythm rule; sentence stress; constrative stress; Raddoppiamento Sintattico; Monosyllabic Destressing; intonational phrase; speech chunk; speech synthesis;

    Sammanfattning : English non-expressive, declarative sentence intonation is examined in a discourse context. A rule system, geared to a text-to-speech context is developed which assigns sentence prominences related to information focus. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Discourse Features in Balochi of Sistan : (Oral Narratives)

    Författare :Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz; Carina Jahani; Stephen H. Levinsohn; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Balochi; discourse studies; oral narratives; text linguistics; information structure; syntax; descriptive linguistics; fieldwork; Iranian languages; Iranian languages; Iranska språk; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This work presents a first study of discourse features in Balochi narratives of Sistan. Discourse analysis investigates what are the properties that make for well-formed texts in a language. There are many approaches to discourse analysis and most approaches focus on a particular aspect of text formation. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Nativelike Performance : A Corpus Study of Pragmatic Markers, Repair and Repetition in Native and Non-native English Speech

    Författare :Annika Denke; Britt Erman; Anna-Brita Stenström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; fluency; oral presentations; Swedish and native speakers of English; pragmatic markers; repair; repetition; nativelike communicative performance; English language; Engelska språket;

    Sammanfattning : This is a corpus study of native (N) and non-native (NN) communicative performance in speech as realised through pragmatic markers, repair and repetition. The concept of fluency and what it encompasses is discussed in the section dealing with the theoretical background of the study. LÄS MER