Essays about: "lexical semantic change"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words lexical semantic change.

1. 1. Change in the Meaning of the Word Cool : A study comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Sandra Andersson; [2023]
   Keywords : Lexical semantics; meaning; synonyms; semantic widening; metaphor; metonymy;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to study change in the meaning of the word cool, comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s. Examples where the word cool was used were obtained from the Corpus of Historical American English, which is created by Mark Davies, and analyzed in terms of in which senses and text types they were used. READ MORE

3. 2. Exploring the effect of stimulus list composition on the Cognate Facilitation Effect in bilingual lexical decision : A study of Danish-Swedish bilinguals

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet

   Author : Revekka Christina Anagnostopoulou; [2022]
   Keywords : Cognate facilitation effect; cognates; interlingual homographs; stimulus list composition; BIA ; Age of Acquisition; lexical decision; bilingualism;

   Abstract : Cognate words have a shared orthographic and semantic representation across languages: kniv (‘knife’) in Danish means the same as kniv in Swedish. Their shared form and meaning give cognates a special status in the bilingual mental lexicon and there is robust evidence that because of this special status they are processed faster than non-cognate words. READ MORE

4. 3. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Andreas Johansson; [2022]
   Keywords : corpus of historical american english; euphemism; language change; lexical change; pejoration; semantics;

   Abstract : With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA) within each adjective. READ MORE

5. 4. A Study of Semantic Change in the Word viral

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

   Author : Eldar Jusovic; [2022]
   Keywords : Semantics; Semantic change; Diachronic change; Corpus; Collocation; Context analysis; viral; WWW; dictionaries;

   Abstract : With diachronic corpus over the time periods, I selected a word that might be suitable for this type of study for detecting if potential semantic changes have occurred. In this study, I explored the lexical semantics of the word viral to see if the World Wide Web (WWW) has influenced the word. READ MORE

6. 5. WANNA BE ON TOP? The Hyperparameter Search for Semantic Change's Next Top Model

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

   Author : Kate Viloria; [2021-09-22]
   Keywords : semantic change; language change; diachronic word embeddings;

   Abstract : Lexical semantic change (LSC) detection through the use of diachronic corpora and computational methods continues to be a prevalent research area in language change (Tahmasebi et al., 2018). READ MORE