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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 189 avhandlingar innehållade orden language acquisition.

  1. 11. Cross-language Ontology Learning : Incorporating and Exploiting Cross-language Data in the Ontology Learning Process

    Författare :Hans Hjelm; Martin Volk; Joakim Nivre; Philipp Cimiano; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Ontologies; Ontology learning; Distributional semantics; Knowledge acquisition; Text mining; Computational linguistics; Datorlingvistik; datorlingvistik; Computational Linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : An ontology is a knowledge-representation structure, where words, terms or concepts are defined by their mutual hierarchical relations. Ontologies are becoming ever more prevalent in the world of natural language processing, where we currently see a tendency towards using semantics for solving a variety of tasks, particularly tasks related to information access. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Immigration, security and the public debate on US language policy : A critical discourse analysis of language attitudes in the United States of America

    Författare :Soraya Tharani; Anna-Brita Stenström; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; national identity; societal security; language policy; ethnolinguistic conflict; human rights; language rights; ethnicity; multilingualism; immigration; critical discourse analysis; language attitudes; English language; Spanish language; United States;

    Sammanfattning : The narrative of the United States is of a "nation of immigrants" in which the language shift patterns of earlier ethnolinguistic groups have tended towards linguistic assimilation through English. In recent years, however, changes in the demographic landscape and language maintenance by non-English speaking immigrants, particularly Hispanics, have been perceived as threats and have led to calls for an official English language policy. LÄS MER

  4. 13. The Language Of Space : The Acquisition And Interpretation of Spatial Adpositions In English

    Författare :Francesco-Alessio Ursini; Stephen Crain; Drew Khlentzos; Krizsta Szendroi; Na'ama Friedmann; Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Faculty of Human Sciences Macquarie University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Syntax; Semantics; Spatial Prepositions; Language Acquisition; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis by publication presents a study on English adpositions (e.g. to, in, at, from, in frontof, through). LÄS MER

  5. 14. Arabic in Home Language Instruction : Language Acquisition in a Fuzzy Linguistic Situation

    Författare :Amanda Walldoff; Elie Wardini; Emanuel Bylund; Helle Lykke Nielsen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arabic; diglossia; home language instruction; bilingualism; writing in Arabic; Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Mellanösterns språk och kulturer;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the command 8th-graders in Arabic home language instruction have of written Modern Standard Arabic and if the type of instruction they have received and/or contact with written Arabic affect their performance. Background chapters discuss variables connected to the Arabic language (diglossia, research on reading and writing in Arabic) and variables connected to HLI in Sweden (set-up, steering documents). LÄS MER

  7. 15. Age differences in first language attrition : A maturational constraints perspective

    Författare :Emanuel Bylund Spångberg; Kenneth Hyltenstam; Niclas Abrahamsson; Silvina Montrul; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; first language attrition; age differences; maturational constraints; critical period; language acquisition; bilingualism; international adoptees; conceptual proficiency; language aptitude; Bilingualism; Tvåspråkighet; tvåspråkighetsforskning; Bilingualism;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates age-related differences in first language (L1) attrition in a second language (L2) setting. The thesis is based on four individual studies. LÄS MER