Essays about: "word accent"

Showing result 11 - 13 of 13 essays containing the words word accent.

1. 11. Processing Swedish Word Accents - evidence from response and reaction times

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Pelle Söderström; [2012]
   Keywords : word accents; swedish; accent 2; language processing; speech processing; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The effects of Central Swedish word accents on morphological and semantic processing were investigated. It was found that Accent 2-inducing suffixes preceded by an Accent 1 tone were more difficult to process compared to Accent 1-inducing suffixes preceded by Accent 2. This effect was relatively task-independent, i.e. READ MORE

3. 12. The Perception of Word Accents in Swedish - A Response Time Study

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Pelle Söderström; [2011]
   Keywords : word accents; linguistics; Swedish; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis investigated the effects of word accent mismatch on the processing of word accents in Swedish. It was found that Accent 2 is more strongly associated with suffixes in the mental lexicon as compared to Accent 1... READ MORE

4. 13. Assessing the Relevance of Prosodic and Phonotactic Cues on Parsing the Speech Stream by Young Language-Learners

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för fonetik

   Author : Eeva Koponen; Eeva Klintfors; [2001]
   Keywords : language acquisition;

   Abstract : This is a study about how one-year-old Swedish-learning infants presumably use probabilistic information, such as prosody and phonotactic regularity, in segmentation of speech. The variables studied were the Swedish tonal word accents I & II and the distributional regularities of within-word and between-word consonant clusters in Swedish infant-directed speech. READ MORE