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1. 6. Articulation Rate and Surprisal in Swedish Child-Directed Speech

   Författare :Johan Sjons; Mats Wirén; Robert Östling; Iris-Corinna Schwarz; Francisco Lacerda; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; articulation rate; information-theoretic surprisal; child-directed speech; final lengthening; spontaneous; longitudinal;

   Sammanfattning : Child-directed speech (CDS) differs from adult-directed speech (ADS) in several respects whose possible facilitating effects for language acquisition are still being studied. One such difference concerns articulation rate --- the number of linguistic units by the number of time units, excluding pauses --- which has been shown to be generally lower than in ADS. LÄS MER

3. 7. Le titre de presse : Analyses syntaxique, pragmatique et rhétorique

   Författare :Françoise Sullet–Nylander; Andrée Borillo; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; newspapers headlines; syntax and discourse; thematic structure; intertextual analysis; reported speech; polyphony; rhetorical figures; word-play; communicative functions; French language; Franska språket; French; franska;

   Sammanfattning : What are the linguistic characteristics of French newspapers headlines? Employing three aspects of linguistic analysis (syntax, pragmatics and stylistics), the present thesis describes and analyses the textual "genre" of the headline. The author regards a newspaper headline as an autonomous text which carries various functions within the newspaper's discourse and therefore has specific features as regards language use. LÄS MER

4. 8. Splitting rocks: Learning word sense representations from corpora and lexica

   Författare :Luis Nieto Piña; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; language technology; natural language processing; distributional models; semantic representations; distributed representations; word senses; embeddings; word sense disambiguation; linguistic resources; corpus; lexicon; machine learning; neural networks;

   Sammanfattning : The representation of written language semantics is a central problem of language technology and a crucial component of many natural language processing applications, from part-of-speech tagging to text summarization. These representations of linguistic units, such as words or sentences, allow computer applications that work with language to process and manipulate the meaning of text. LÄS MER

5. 9. Linguistic Adaptations in Spoken Human-Computer Dialogues - Empirical Studies of User Behavior

   Författare :Linda Bell; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :spoken dialogue systems; linguistic adaptation; human-computer interaction; speech-based interfaces;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the question of how speakers adapttheir language when they interact with a spoken dialoguesystem. In human–human dialogue, people continuously adaptto their conversational partners at different levels. LÄS MER

7. 10. A Linguistic Analysis of Peer-review Critique in Four Modes of Computer-mediated Communication

   Författare :Irina Frisk; Terry Walker; Mats Deutschmann; Philip Shaw; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; CMC; Conversation Analysis; conversation management; discussion boards; feedback category; mode of CMC; peer-review discussion; politeness theory; pragmatic strategy; speech act of critique; text-based chat; type of politeness; voice-based chat; VoiceThread;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract The present work is a quantitative and qualitative analysis of pragmatic strategies for delivering critique, and types of politeness, used by undergraduate L2 students of English at different stages of peer-review discussion. The material examined consists of four corpora of authentic conversations between students, the main purpose of which was to give feedback on each other’s contributions during an English A-level course, at Mid-Sweden University. LÄS MER