Essays about: "word accent"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 essays containing the words word accent.

  1. 6. THE PROSODY OF TENSE MARKING IN TEKE-EBOO. A Bantu B70 language of Congo-Brazzaville

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Ruth Raharimanantsoa; [2017-06-20]
    Keywords : Afrikanska språk; African linguistics; Bantu B70 language cluster; Eboo; Kukuya; tense marking; stem-initial stress accent; tone melodies; grammatical tone; intonation; downstep; boundary L tone;

    Abstract : Teke-Eboo is a Bantu B70 language spoken in Congo-Brazzaville, which displays complex tone melodies combining grammatical tone, subject agreement tone and lexical tone on verbs. This study of tense marking in Eboo identifies the tones which mark the recent past, general past and future tenses, and shows how the underlying high-low (H-L) contrastive tone system adds both downstepped H and mid (M) tones in surface realisations. READ MORE

  3. 7. Testing the Language Melody Game - An ERP, perception and production study of L2 acquisition of the Swedish word accent – grammar association.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Anna Hed; [2016]
    Keywords : second language acquisition; ERP; word accents; prosody; PrAN; LAN; language processing; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Previous research has shown that L1 speakers use Swedish word accents to predict what linguistic material is to follow. This study investigated how L2 learners of Swedish process the word accent – suffix association. Low to intermediate level L2 learners trained this association for two weeks, using the Language Melody Game. READ MORE

  4. 8. Production and Perception of Swedish Word Accents by Somali L1 Speakers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Anna Hed; [2014]
    Keywords : prosody; second language acquisition; Somali; Swedish; word accents; tonal accents; tone accents; pitch accents; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : In this thesis, the production and perception of Swedish word accents by Somali L1 speakers is investigated. The Feature hypothesis, stating that it is easier to acquire a phonological feature in an L2 if the same phonological feature is used in the L1 will be the framework used. Somali is a language that also makes us of word accents. READ MORE

  5. 9. Prosodic features in "enka". The relationship between the melody of lyrics in "enka" and the prosody of Japanese

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Máté Sall Vesselényi; [2013-08-23]
    Keywords : enka; prosodic features; melody of lyrics; prosody of Japanese;

    Abstract : Previous research on the relationship between the melody of lyrics and Japanese prosody has only approached the topic on a word accent level. In this paper, however, I examined to what extent four best-seller enka manifest prosody with reference to larger prosodic units. READ MORE

  6. 10. Constant Tonal Alignment in Swedish Word Accent II

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

    Author : Malin Svensson; [2013]
    Keywords : tonal alignment; segmental anchoring; word accent; pre-nuclear accent; speech rate; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Studies on accentual tonal alignment of intonational languages suggest a segmental anchoring of tonal targets, more specifically that L in rising (LH) pre-nuclear accents anchors with a specific point in the segment, while the timing of H varies. This study tests if lexical accents, too, exhibit a constant alignment by testing the South Swedish word Accent II using speech rate as an experimental tool. READ MORE