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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden speaker reference.
1. Perception, Analysis and Synthesis of Speaker Age
Sammanfattning : Speaker age is an important paralinguistic feature in speech which has to be considered in the study of phonetic variation. Knowledge about this feature may be used to improve speech technology applications, e.g. automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis. LÄS MER
2. Werden – ein Chamäleon der Sprache : Zum Werdegang von werden
Sammanfattning : The topic of this thesis is the evolutionary history of werden in German with reference to its four functions – as full verb, as copula and as auxiliary verb in combination with the past participle in the Vorgangspassiv and also in combination with the infinitive to denote future and, in some circumstances, epistemic modal events. On the basis of scrutiny of diachronic results and a discussion of views put forward in the synchronic literature and empirically corroborated by a detailed analysis of a corpus, it is argued that the unique position of werden in the German verb arena was made possible by its non-specified meaning of dynamic existence, by its medial, non-agentive diathesis and, crucially, by its additivity, and its actional and aspectual underdetermination. LÄS MER
3. The introductory it pattern in academic writing by non-native-speaker students, native-speaker students and published writers : A corpus-based study
Sammanfattning : The present compilation thesis investigates the use of a pattern that is commonly found in academic writing, namely the introductory it pattern (e.g. it is interesting to note the difference). The main aim is to shed further light on the formal and functional characteristics of the pattern in academic writing. LÄS MER
4. La Référence au passé dans le dialogue : Étude de l’acquisition de la temporalité chez des apprenants dits avancés de français
Sammanfattning : The present thesis is a study of past time reference by Swedish university students in interaction with a native speaker of French. Most previous studies in the field of language acquisition have focussed on learners at early stages of acquisition. It is less known how adult, qualified learners use a second language. LÄS MER
5. ¿La fiscal o la fiscala? Un estudio sociolingüístico sobre el uso de denominaciones con referentes mujeres : ¿La fiscal o la fiscala? A sociolinguistic study on the use of professional designations with female referents
Sammanfattning : The thesis is a sociolinguistic investigation of how native Spaniards designate female professionals in 40 occupations. Due to the lack of norms in this field, it is characterized by variation and vacillation, even by the Royal Spanish Academy. The main objective of the study is to describe quantitatively how the use of the linguistic variable (1. LÄS MER
