Essays about: "agreement linguistics"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 essays containing the words agreement linguistics.

  1. 6. Improving an Italian TTS System : Voice Based Rules for Word Boundaries' Phenomena

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Laura Rossetti; [2017]
    Keywords : Natural language processing; Text-to-speech; NLP; TTS; unit selection; rules; Italian; computational linguistics; speech technology;

    Abstract : This thesis project aimed at improving a commercial Italian Unit Selection system by obtaining a higher agreement between the internal target representation produced by the text analysis component and the recordings in the speech database. Precisely this has been done by implementing new transformation rules that are applied on the input text during the text normalization and just after the grapheme-to-phoneme (g2p) module. READ MORE

  3. 7. Pre-closing formulations in Meeting Talk : A Study of a Cross-functional Team Meeting at Ericsson in Stockholm

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Lisa Månsson; [2015]
    Keywords : conversation analysis; meeting talk; formulations; pre-closing; leadership; organizational talk; linguistics; konversationsanalys; ledarskap; organisationer; lingvistik;

    Abstract : Meetings are important arenas where institutional roles and relationships are acted out. Conversation analysis, a data-driven qualitative methodology utilized to study naturally occurring talk-in-interaction, was used in this study to uncover the mechanisms behind meeting talk. READ MORE

  4. 8. “People believes on ghosts” - an Error Analysis of Swedish Junior and Senior High School students´ written compositions

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Lucas Strömblad; [2013]
    Keywords : Linguistics; Grammar; Error Analysis; Composition;

    Abstract : This paper investigates errors in compositions written by junior and senior high school students. Two types of errors are specifically targeted, one relating to grammar in subject-verb agreement and another relating to the word class of prepositions. READ MORE

  5. 9. The Language of Tourism : How the Tourism Industry Promotes Magic

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad

    Author : Lotta Persson; [2012]
    Keywords : tourism discourse; advertising; linguistics; semantics and pragmatics.;

    Abstract : To lure potential customers to buy a holiday away from home, most marketers incorporate certain semantic and pragmatic features into their promotional material: words and images are chosen with utmost care. The present study is conducted in order to reveal these semantic and pragmatic features and equally, to show how they highlight the concept of “magic”. READ MORE

  6. 10. The noun phrase in Kwere, a Bantu language of Tanzania.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Mirjam Möller; [2011-06-30]
    Keywords : African linguistics; Bantu languages; Tanzania; Kwere; noun class; nominal class prefix; concord or agreement class prefix;

    Abstract : The paper describes the noun phrase in Kwere, a Bantu language of Tanzania; its noun class system as well as singular and plural pairings. It investigates the several different elements which are part of the noun phrase. the data presented in the study was collected during a field trip in 2011.. READ MORE