Sökning: "Speech Rhythm"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Speech Rhythm.

  1. 1. Swedish speech rhythm in a cross-language perspective

    Författare :Eva Strangert; Claes-Christian Elert; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; speech rhythm; temporal organization; speech production; language structure; Finnish; Spanish; Swedish;

    Sammanfattning : The study aims to describe and to explain some temporal aspects of the rhythmic structure of Swedish, and to compare Swedish, Spanish, and Finnish, characterized as rhythmically different languages.The temporal effects of some manipulations believed to have consequences for rhythm were studied in a series of experiments based on sets of Swedish sentences. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Rhythm in late-modern Stockholm : Social stratification and stylistic variation in the speech of men

    Författare :Nathan Joel Young; Devyani Sharma; Erez Levon; Paul Kerswill; Nicolai Pharao; United Kingdom University of London Queen Mary; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rinkeby Swedish; Speech Rhythm; nPVI; multiethnolect; sociophonetics; Phonetics; fonetik;

    Sammanfattning : Denna avhandling visar att talrytm är socialt stratifierad i vardagsspråket hos män i Stockholm. Som ett symboliskt centrum för många senmoderna sociala förändringar är Stockholm också hemvist för Europas ”första” multietnolekt (rinkebysvenska, Kotsinas 1988a). LÄS MER

  4. 3. Rhythm and Intonation in Halh Mongolian

    Författare :Anastasia Karlsson; Fonetik; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jämförande lingvistik; typology; Comparative linguistics; rhythm; prosodi; syllabification; Mongolian; Linguistics; Allmän språkvetenskap Lingvistik; Phonetics; phonology; fonologi; Fonetik; språktypologi; Finno-Ugrian and Altaic languages; Finsk-ugriska och altaiska språk;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation provides the first comprehensive account of the prosody of Halh (Khalkha) Mongolian as spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia. The phonological description is based on acoustic analysis of speech data collected from nine Mongolian-speakers. LÄS MER

  5. 4. 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

  7. 5. Talat glöms men skrivet göms : En studie i Fritiof Nilsson Piratens författarskap

    Författare :Magnus Öhrn; Kerstin Dahlbäck; Dag Hedman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Fritiof Nilsson; The Pirate; orality; literacy; oral-literary continuum; contextualization; masculine discourse; homosociality; folklore; folklorism; stylistics; syntax; metaphor; grotesque; meta-narrative; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the relation between orality and literacy in the authorship of Fritiof Nilsson, The Pirate (1895-1972), who was well known both as an author and as an oral storyteller. The investigation is divided into four areas: The first concerns the contents of Fritiof Nilsson´s texts, especially different kind of folklore genres, that belong to verbal traditions (anecdotes, proverbs, legends, folk customs, folk medicin etc). LÄS MER