Sökning: "Swedish dialects"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 36 avhandlingar innehållade orden Swedish dialects.

  1. 1. Phonological Quantity in Swedish Dialects : Typological Aspects, Phonetic Variation and Diachronic Change

    Författare :Felix Schaeffler; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish dialects; phonological quantity; vowel and consonant duration; cluster analysis; linguistic typology; phonetic variation; diachronic change; Phonetics; Fonetik;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project.The study is explorative in character. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Lexical and Acoustic Modelling of Swedish Prosody

    Författare :Johan Frid; Fonetik; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; phonology; Phonetics; stress; dialects; Swedish; word accents; letter-to-sound; text-to-speech; modelling; intonation; prosody; speech technology; Fonetik; fonologi; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : Prosody and intonation are very important ingredients of human speech. In speech technology, text-to-speech (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems must incorporate prosodic models in order to reach acceptable performances. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Ord som vandrat : En studie över lågtyska lånord i svenska dialekter

    Författare :Lennart Brodin; Claes Åneman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish dialectology; Low German; lexical borrowing; loanword s ; Swedish language history.; nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : Regional Swedish dialects contain a number of Low German loanwords that are not found in Standard Swedish. It is the aim of this dissertation to identify such words, to describe them with special reference to their semantic properties, and to investigate their history in the Swedish language. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Vrist - brist - rist : Utvecklingen av gammalt uddljudande wr i nordiska, särskilt svenska, dialekter

    Författare :Gerd Eklund; Institutet för språk och folkminnen; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; development of wr-; Old Scandinavian; Old Swedish; Swedish dialects; loss of w; differentiation; metathesis; sound change; phonetic tendency; Dialekter; Dialektforskning; Dialectology;

    Sammanfattning : The Germanic initial sound combination wr (e.g. in *wrītan 'write') has not been preserved in any standard language. In the Scandinavian languages the development of this sound combination has resulted in five different initial sounds or sound combinations, namely rw, r, w, br and vr. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Sociolinguistic, comparative and historical perspectives on Scandinavian gender: With focus on Jamtlandic

    Författare :Briana Van Epps; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grammatical gender; Jamtlandic; Swedish dialects; dialectology; dialect loss; language variation and change; gender assignment; Scandinavian; gender variability; diachrony; Old Norse; Old Swedish; Swedish; Norwegian; Elfdalian;

    Sammanfattning : The present thesis investigates gender assignment in Jamtlandic from a sociolinguistic and historical/comparative perspective. Jamtlandic is a language variety spoken in northwestern Sweden in the province of Jämtland. It maintains a three-gender system, in contrast to Standard Swedish, which has a two-gender system. LÄS MER