Essays about: "allophone"

Found 4 essays containing the word allophone.

  1. 1. Perception of English /l/ and /r/ by Japanese listeners – the influence of living abroad.

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Axel Hooper; [2019-03-05]
    Keywords : japanska; perception; phoneme; allophone; Speech Learning Model;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the topic of perception of /l/ and /r/ phonemes in Japanese speakers, primarily divided into two groups: Speakers who have lived in Sweden for 3 or more years and speak conversational Swedish, and average Japanese speakers, in an attempt to observe the effects learning Swedish has on one’s English. A hypothesis dubbed the Speech Learning Model (SLM) as well as my own hypotheses were used as a base for comparison. READ MORE

  3. 2. Turkish-Swedish Bilingual Third Language English High-Front Vowel Category Formation

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Martin Ekelund; [2017]
    Keywords : Second language acquisition; third language acquisition; bilingualism; multilingualism; phonology; phonetics; English; Swedish; Turkish; acoustic measurements;

    Abstract : This study explores the possibilities of phonetic category formation in early bilingual Turkish-Swedish learners of English. Specifically, the high-front unrounded vowels across the three languages Turkish, Swedish and English are investigated. READ MORE

  4. 3. Hät, här, höt and hör - An Articulatory and Acoustic Study of the Swedish Vowels /ɛ:/ and /ø:/

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

    Author : Anne Schumacher; [2014]
    Keywords : electromagnetic articulography; EMA; vowel lowering; Swedish vowels; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis is concerned with the examination of the Swedish vowels /ɛ:/ and /ø:/ for qualitative differences between their pre-r allophones and the allophones occurring in other contexts. For this purpose, electromagnetic articulography and speech recordings were carried out on Swedish speakers from the two dialectal areas Malmö and Stockholm. READ MORE

  5. 4. Burcas : A Simple Concatenation-based MIDI-to-Singing Voice Synthesis System for Swedish

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Marcus Uneson; [2002]
    Keywords : Syntetisk sång utifrån svenska språket; Sångsyntes; Burcas; Bokstav - ljud - sång; Sångrösten; Phonetics; phonology; Fonetik; fonologi; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : After a brief outlook on the field of concatenative synthesis of singing, with emphasis on the differences in comparison to synthesis of speech, the present paper gives an overview of a simple system for singing synthesis in Swedish based on concatenation of diphones. The system, called Burcas, accepts as input a text file for lyrics, from which it extracts a target phoneme sequence using basic letter-to-sound conversion, and a MIDI file?possibly holding multiple parts?, from which it extracts melodical information, i. READ MORE