Essays about: "korpus"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 35 essays containing the word korpus.
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21. Good cop, bad cop? : A corpus analysis on the semantic prosody of the noun cop
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)Abstract : The public opinion on the favourability towards the police varies greatly in the different populations in the United States. This is a corpus linguistic study that investigates a possible change in semantic prosody of the word cop. READ MORE
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22. -S morphemes in L2 English : An investigation into student essays in grades 6, 9, and 12 in Sweden
University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : Swedish students’ morpheme acquisition order in English, including the acquisition of -s morphemes, is a relatively unstudied topic. Given the morphological differences between the English and Swedish languages, students learning English in Sweden may encounter difficulties in the use of the third person singular present tense -s morpheme. READ MORE
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23. Phonotactic Structures in Swedish : A Data-Driven Approach
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikAbstract : Ever since Bengt Sigurd laid out the first comprehensive description of Swedish phonotactics in 1965, it has been the main point of reference within the field. This thesis attempts a new approach, by presenting a computational and statistical model of Swedish phonotactics, which can be built by any corpus of IPA phonetic script. READ MORE
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24. Selected topics in the grammar of Français Tirailleur : A corpus study
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This corpus-based study describes some grammatical and lexical features of Français Tirailleur (FT), a pidgin spoken in the French colonial army from the mid-1800’s to the 1950’s. By examining the largest corpus available of the language, this study aims to (1) discern hitherto undescribed or strengthen previous claims about grammatical and lexical features of FT, (2) compare these features with its lexifier language and (3) identify changes over time. READ MORE
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25. Understanding the 'mess' in text messages : An analysis of humorous text message exchanges shared in social media platforms
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : The concept 'mess-understanding' has circulated in online media and is so prevalent that it is now included in the Urban Dictionary. The folk concept of mess-understandings is a pun for misunderstandings arising in an online media context. READ MORE