Essays about: "loanwords"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 33 essays containing the word loanwords.
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6. Homograph Disambiguation and Diacritization for Arabic Text-to-Speech Using Neural Networks
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Pre-processing Arabic text for Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems poses major challenges, as Arabic omits short vowels in writing. This omission leads to a large number of homographs, and means that Arabic text needs to be diacritized to disambiguate these homographs, in order to be matched up with the intended pronunciation. READ MORE
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7. OUT WITH THE NEW, IN WITH THE OLD. A study on Western loanwords in Japanese newspapers and the recommendations provided by the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : With the current influx of Western loanwords, also called gairaigo, into the Japanese language, many Japanese citizens fear that the spirit of the language is disappearing. Nevertheless, borrowing words from foreign languages has historically been and still is an important part in the development of the Japanese language. READ MORE
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8. Are Loanwords Trendier? : A Qualitative Corpus Analysis on Adjective Collocations of English Loanword Nouns and their Native or Sino Japanese Pairs in the Japanese Language
University essay from Lunds universitet/JapanskaAbstract : To analyse the behaviour of English loanwords in the Japanese language using corpus analysis is a relatively new field of research. The aim of this thesis is to add to this emergent field by attempting to discover if there are any differences in how English loanword nouns and their native Japanese/Sino-Japanese near synonym pairs are used in contemporary written Japanese. READ MORE
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9. Let’s go to the frukost : – A case study of a teenage influencer’s use of English in a Swedish-language YouTube channel.
University essay from Karlstads universitetAbstract : From the perspective of an English teacher, the way students communicate in English is a point of interest. For the last half a century, the English language has had and continues to have, a major influence on our language. For teenagers, code-switching (CS) between the languages, for specific words or phrases, has become natural and effortless. READ MORE
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10. Interesting, funny, weird or just incomprehensible? A study on Swedish Japanese learning students’ comprehension, thoughts and attitudes towards Wasei-eigo
University essay from Lunds universitet/JapanskaAbstract : This thesis investigates to what extent Swedish students of Japanese can understand wasei-eigo, as well as their thoughts and attitudes toward it. It further investigates if some word categories are more incomprehensible than others and what aspects can determine their comprehension. READ MORE
