Sökning: "Vowel systems"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Vowel systems.

  1. 1. The Vowel System of a Shetland Accent of Scottish Standard English : A segmental analysis

    Författare :Peter Sundkvist; Gunnel Melchers; John Harris; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Lerwick; Shetland; Shetland dialect; Scottish Standard English; Accents of English; Vowel systems; Subsystems; The Scottish Vowel Length Rule; Vowel softening;

    Sammanfattning : This study presents a comprehensive description of the stressed vowel system of the local accent of Scottish Standard English spoken in Lerwick, Shetland. A judgement sample of eleven informants was obtained through a network model. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Vowel Systems of Five Iranian Balochi Dialects

    Författare :Farideh Okati; Åke Viberg; Carina Jahani; Pétur Helgason; Jan-Olof Svantesson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Balochi; Persian; Iranian Balochi dialects; vowel system; Common Balochi; fronting; diphthongization; nasalization; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : The vowel systems of five selected Iranian Balochi dialects are investigated in this study, which is the first work to apply empirical acoustic analysis to a large body of recorded data on the vowel inventories of different Balochi dialects spoken in Iran. The selected dialects are spoken in the five regions of Sistan (SI), Saravan (SA), Khash (KH), Iranshahr (IR), and Chabahar (CH) located in the province Sistan and Baluchestan in southeast Iran. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Voice for Decision Support in Healthcare Applied to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Classification : A Machine Learning Approach

    Författare :Alper Idrisoglu; Johan Sanmartin Berglund; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Automated decision-support; Classification; Machine Learning; Voice-affecting disorders; Voice dataset; Voice Features; Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease COPD ; Tillämpad hälsoteknik; Applied Health Technology;

    Sammanfattning : Background: Advancements in machine learning (ML) techniques and voice technology offer the potential to harness voice as a new tool for developing decision-support tools in healthcare for the benefit of both healthcare providers and patients. Motivated by technological breakthroughs and the increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in healthcare, numerous studies aim to investigate the diagnostic potential of ML algorithms in the context of voice-affecting disorders. LÄS MER

  5. 4. 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

  7. 5. Preaspiration in the Nordic languages : synchronic and diachronic aspects

    Författare :Pétur Helgason; John J. Ohala; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : Preaspiration—the production of glottal friction at the juncture of a vowel and a consonant—appears to be typologically rare but is an areal linguistic feature of Northwestern Europe. This study contains a survey of the known geographical spread of preaspirated stops, their phonological distribution and phonetic expressions in some Nordic dialects. LÄS MER