Sökning: "Prosody"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 46 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Prosody.

1. 11. The priority of temporal aspects in L2-Swedish prosody : Studies in perception and production

   Författare :Bosse Thorén; Robert McAllister; Hartmut Traunmüller; Gösta Bruce; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Foreign accent; Basic prosody; Swedish; Stress; Quantity; Duration; Priority; Postvocalic consonant; Listener friendly; Phonetics; Fonetik; Phonetics; fonetik;

   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

3. 12. Efectos pragmáticos de transferencias prosódicas del sueco al español L2 : implicaciones para la clase de español lengua extranjera

   Författare :Berit Aronsson; Anita Malmqvist; Lars Fant; Jesús Romero-Trillo; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; prosody; L2 acquisition; sociopragmatic interacctional perspective; phonetics; L2 teaching and learning; form-focused interacctional approach; language teaching and learning; språkdidaktik;

   Sammanfattning : La presente tesis tiene por objetivo identificar para la enseñanza del español una serie de características prosódicas que son comunicativamente importantes. El trabajo también se propone poner de relieve el papel central de la prosodia en la comunicación, así como la necesidad de incorporar esta destreza en las competencias comunicativas de la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras. LÄS MER

4. 13. Professionally Speaking - The prosodic and discourse structure of professional monologue in English

   Författare :Bryan D C Mosey; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; paragraph; paratone; referential continuities; theme; discourse topic; fundamental frequency; finality; nucleus; accent; pause; speech-rate; tone-unit; discourse analysis; intonation; prosody; monologue; speech; spoken English; corpus; neural network; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   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

5. 14. Prosodic Phrasing in Spontaneous Swedish

   Författare :Petra Hansson; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; intonation.; spontaneous speech; optimality theory; prominence; grouping; phrasing; Southern Swedish; Swedish; speech planning; speech production; speech perception; prosody; phonology; phonetics; Fonetik; fonologi;

   Sammanfattning : One of the most important functions of prosody is to divide the flow of speech into chunks. The chunking, or prosodic phrasing, of speech plays an important role in both the production and perception of speech. LÄS MER

7. 15. Bringing the avatar to life : Studies and developments in facial communication for virtual agents and robots

   Författare :Samer Al Moubayed; Jonas Beskow; Stefan Kopp; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Avatar; Speech Communication; Facial animation; Nonverbal; Social; Robot; Human-like; Face-to-face; Prosody; Pitch; Prominence; Furhat; Gaze; Head-pose; Dialogue; Interaction; Multimodal; Multiparty; SRA - ICT; SRA - Informations- och kommunikationsteknik;

   Sammanfattning : The work presented in this thesis comes in pursuit of the ultimate goal of building spoken and embodied human-like interfaces that are able to interact with humans under human terms. Such interfaces need to employ the subtle, rich and multidimensional signals of communicative and social value that complement the stream of words – signals humans typically use when interacting with each other. LÄS MER