Sökning: "linguistic variation and change"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden linguistic variation and change.
1. Phonological Quantity in Swedish Dialects : Typological Aspects, Phonetic Variation and Diachronic Change
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
2. Återbesök i Eskilstuna : En undersökning av morfologisk variation och förändring i nutida talspråk
Sammanfattning : Real-time replications of empirical studies of language use are scarce. This study of language change in real time replicates an investigation of the social variation of spoken Swedish in the medium-sized town of Eskilstuna, using data collected 29 years after the original study. LÄS MER
3. Ungdomar och dialekt i Alingsås : Young people and dialect in a small town in West Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a study of sociolinguistic variation among students from five municipalities, all attending an upper secondary school in Alingsås, a town of 25,000, northeast of Göteborg, Sweden. The material consists of recorded interviews with 97 students. LÄS MER
4. Fokus ålder : betydelserelationer och betydelseförändring i användning
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to study how words denoting age are used in newspaper texts. I have chosen mainly to study the following Swedish focus words for females and males of different ages (flicka, kvinna, tjej, dam; pojke, man, kille and herre) as they relate to age. LÄS MER
5. A View from Language : Growth of language in individuals and populations
Sammanfattning : The main question that this book tries to find answers to is what it is that makes language learnable. Language is one of the most complex human activities, but nearly 100% of humanity have learned a language in childhood. One answer could be that it is something in our brain that makes us learn language better than most other activities. LÄS MER