Essays about: "language and dialects"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 essays containing the words language and dialects.

  1. 1. Cross-lingual and Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition for Scandinavian Languages

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Rafal Černiavski; [2022]
    Keywords : cross-lingual; multilingual; automatic speech recognition; ASR;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 2. Attitudes towards Qingtian dialect among Qingtianese in Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Simon Wefer; [2022]
    Keywords : Qingtian – language attitudes – Chinese diaspora – heritage dialect – language shift; 青田 - 语言态度 - 华人散居 - 传承方言 - 语言替换;

    Abstract : 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

  4. 3. Age-graded Variation in Japanese Visual Language : The different morphology of adults’ and children’s manga

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Sixten Linusson; [2021]
    Keywords : Japanese; visual language; visual morphology; morphology; linguistics; age-grading; manga; comics;

    Abstract : Previous studies have shown that not only is there something called visual language through which we understand graphical expressions, but also that each culture has its own visual language. Furthermore, there are variances within these visual languages, denoted by genre, which can be interpreted to be dialects. READ MORE

  5. 4. Contact-induced change and variation in Middle English morphology : A case study on get

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Åberg; [2021]
    Keywords : Language contact; Language change; Middle English; Old Norse; Cognitive linguistics; Old English.;

    Abstract : The present study explores the role of interlingual identification in contact between speakers of Old Norse and Old English. The study focuses on the word get as it occurred throughout a selection of texts in the Middle English period. READ MORE

  6. 5. Pronunciation Teaching in the Swedish EFL Classroom

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Sigrid Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : English as a Foreign Language; EFL; Pronunciation; Syllabus; Native Speaker Ideal; NS; Native Speaker; Teaching in Sweden;

    Abstract : This essay aims to explore how Swedish teachers of English view the shift from a Native Speaker ideal to English as a Global Language in connection to pronunciation teaching. The essay also aims to explore how the teachers teach this in practice. READ MORE