Essays about: "Otto Ewald"

Found 2 essays containing the words Otto Ewald.

1. 1. The Estonian Swedish diphthongs /ai au oi ui/: Acoustic characteristics and cross-dialectal variation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Otto Ewald; [2016]
   Keywords : Estonian Swedish; diphthongs; cross-dialectal variation; acoustic analysis; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study investigates the acoustic characteristics and cross-dialectal variation of the diphthongs /ai au oi ui/ in the Nuckö, Ormsö, and Rickul varieties of Estonian Swedish, which have previously only been described impressionistically (Lagman, 1979; Danell, 1905-34). Eight acoustic measures, reflecting the F1 and F2 frequency values at the first (InF1 and InF2) and second (FinF1 and FinF2) vowel targets, total diphthong duration, amount of spectral change (TL), and spectral rate of change (TLroc and VSLroc), were employed to analyze differences between diphthong categories within each dialect as well as differences in the realization of each diphthong category across dialects. READ MORE

3. 2. Signaling discourse structure: the marking of discourse topic boundaries in Jahai and Mah Meri spontaneous narratives

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Otto Ewald; [2013]
   Keywords : Mah Meri; Jahai; prosody; discourse topic; discourse structure; Austroasiatic; Aslian; particles; pitch; duration; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study has examined how the right edge of a discourse topic is signaled through the use of F0, duration, and particles in the two Aslian languages Jahai and Mah Meri. The goals of this study were to contribute to the knowledge of these languages, compare them to the related Kammu language in the search for similarities that could be applied to Austroasiatic as a whole, and to explore what kind of analysis is possible with a material not collected for prosodic research. READ MORE