Essays about: "Dialects"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 48 essays containing the word Dialects.
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1. VERBAL MORPHOLOGY IN THE GARISSA DIALECT OF SOMALI
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The essay investigates Garissa dialect, aiming to examine how far it is different from, or similar to, the standard Somali when it comes to verbal morphology. There are only very general studies of Somali dialects, and no study has ever focused specifically on this particular topic due to security reason among other things. READ MORE
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2. It was or it was not in the old days, until it was : – A study of time, tense, and aspect in spoken Arabic narrative
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : This study is devoted to Arabic spoken narrative, specifically Syrian Arabic spoken narrative. The focus of this thesis is syntax and narrative. I aim to study how time reference is set in narrative, and what tense and aspect forms are used, as well as some other narrative devices in spoken narratives. READ MORE
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3. Cross-lingual and Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition for Scandinavian Languages
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Research into Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the task of transforming speech into text, remains highly relevant due to its countless applications in industry and academia. State-of-the-art ASR models are able to produce nearly perfect, sometimes referred to as human-like transcriptions; however, accurate ASR models are most often available only in high-resource languages. READ MORE
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4. Attitudes towards Qingtian dialect among Qingtianese in Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Emigrants from Qingtian County (Zhejiang province, China) have a long and rich history in Europe, but to date, little research has been done on their unique language, or its role in Qingtianese diaspora communities. Drawing inspiration from other studies about attitudes towards, and use of, Chinese heritage dialects in China and overseas, the author examines attitudes toward Qingtian dialect using established quantitative and qualitative sociolinguistic research methods. READ MORE
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5. Intercultural communication between Arabic speakers in Sweden as a microculture and the Swedish health care system as a macroculture in the context of healthcare
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This study aims to investigate the communication between Arabic speakers in Sweden as a microculture and the Swedish health care system as a macroculture in the context of healthcare. The study has both a qualitative and a socio-cultural perspective. READ MORE
