Sökning: "Spoken language"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 236 avhandlingar innehållade orden Spoken language.

  1. 6. Lokalradiospråk : en studie av tre lokalradiostationers sändningar

    Författare :Inga-Britt Lindblad; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Language; local radio; mass communica¬tion; linguistic analysis; sociolinguistics; Sweden; style; pragmatics; context;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation presents studies of a socially highly relevant text category, local radio broadcasts. The language of news programmes in particular from three local radio stations - Radio Gotland, Radio Väs­terbotten and Radio Östergötland - has been studied in the light of the intentions behind the introduction of local radio, and the ambitions expressed by the radio people involved. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Evidential marking in spoken English : Linguistic functions and gender variation

    Författare :Erika Berglind Söderqvist; Merja Kytö; Angela Hoffman; Marta Carretero; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Evidentiality; spoken language; English; corpus linguistics; gender; style; pragmatics; sociolinguistics; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the marking of evidentiality in spoken British English. Evidentiality is the linguistic expression of whether and how a speaker/writer has access to evidence for or against the truth of a proposition, and it is usually manifested in the form of sensory evidentiality (e.g. I saw Sam leave), hearsay evidentiality (e. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems : Managing Uncertainty, Grounding and Miscommunication

    Författare :Gabriel Skantze; Rolf Carlson; Alexander Rudnicky; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; speech communications; linguistics; Language technology; Språkteknologi;

    Sammanfattning : Due to the large variability in the speech signal, the speech recognition process constitutes the major source of errors in most spoken dialogue systems. A spoken dialogue system can never know for certain what the user is saying, it can only make hypotheses. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Predictive Modeling of Turn-Taking in Spoken Dialogue : Computational Approaches for the Analysis of Turn-Taking in Humans and Spoken Dialogue Systems

    Författare :Erik Ekstedt; Gabriel Skantze; Roger Moore; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; turn-taking; spoken dialog system; human computer interaction; Turtagning; talad dialog; människa-data interaktion; Datalogi; Computer Science; Människa-datorinteraktion; Human-computer Interaction; Speech and Music Communication; Tal- och musikkommunikation;

    Sammanfattning : Turn-taking in spoken dialogue represents a complex cooperative process wherein participants use verbal and non-verbal cues to coordinate who speaks and who listens, to anticipate speaker transitions, and to produce backchannels (e.g., “mhm”, “uh-huh”) at the right places. LÄS MER

  7. 10. “Speak your own language” : On tensions regarding Finnish in Sweden

    Författare :Lasse Vuorsola; Jarmo Lainio; Päivi Juvonen; Sari Pietikäinen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; applied linguistics; language policy; linguistic landscape; spatial orientation; dialectal change; minority language; shortened infinitives in Finnish; orientations to language policy; finska; Finnish;

    Sammanfattning : In this compilation dissertation I examine social tensions that relate to the Sweden Finnish minority and the Finnish language in Sweden. The dissertation is based on critical applied linguistics and I employ various related theoretical notions in the included articles. LÄS MER