Sökning: "prosody"

Visar resultat 26 - 30 av 46 avhandlingar innehållade ordet prosody.

1. 26. Articulation in time : Some word-initial segments in Swedish

   Författare :Malin Svensson Lundmark; Fonetik; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; acceleration; articulation; articulography; coarticulation; EMA; gesture; phonology; prosody; speech motor control; speech production modelling; Swedish; word accent; tone;

   Sammanfattning : Speech is both dynamic and distinctive at the same time. This implies a certain contradiction which has entertained researchers in phonetics and phonology for decades. The present dissertation assumes that articulation behaves as a function of time, and that we can find phonological structures in the dynamical systems. LÄS MER

3. 27. Prosody and grammar in speech perception

   Författare :Stig-Göran Svensson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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4. 28. Trials of Device : Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language

   Författare :Stefan Holander; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary theory; literature criticism; General and comparative literature; poetic prosody; metrics; rhythmic theory; Literary ethics; metaphor; modernism; Wallace Stevens; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies Wallace Stevens? ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly felt pressure for the possible social involvement and political utility of poetic language. The argument suggests how mutually implicated elements of his poetry such as diction, prosody and metaphor are relied on to signify or enact aesthetic closure; both in the negative terms of expressive impotence and unethical isolation and the positive ones of imaginative and linguistic change. LÄS MER

5. 29. Towards conversational speech synthesis : Experiments with data quality, prosody modification, and non-verbal signals

   Författare :Bajibabu Bollepalli; Joakim Gustafsson; Jonas Beskow; Matthew Aylett; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Speech synthesis; MPEG compression; Voice Conversion; Artificial Neural Net- works; Laughter synthesis; HTS; Computer Science; Datalogi;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of a text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) system is to generate a human-like speech waveform from a given input text. Current TTS sys- tems have already reached a high degree of intelligibility, and they can be readily used to read aloud a given text. For many applications, e.g. LÄS MER

7. 30. Modality and Prosody of Micro-feedback in Relation to Understanding in Intercultural Communication – First encounters between Swedes and Chinese

   Författare :Jia Lu; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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