Essays about: "native language identification"

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  1. 1. An End-to-End Native Language Identification Model without the Need for Manual Annotation

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Viktorija Buzaitė; [2022]
    Keywords : native language identification; NLI; BERT; syntax; errors;

    Abstract : Native language identification (NLI) is a classification task which identifies the mother tongue of a language learner based on spoken or written material. The task gained popularity when it was featured in the 2017 BEA-12-workshop and since then many applications have been successfully found for NLI - ranging from language learning to authorship identification and forensic science. READ MORE

  2. 2. Structural and Functional Analysis of Lexical Bundles in Music Research Articles : A Corpus-Based Approach

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

    Author : Elena Novella Savelyeva; [2021]
    Keywords : formulaic language; lexical bundles; research articles; music; musicology; Corpus linguistics;

    Abstract : Applied linguistics has lately been seen in studies of formulaicity of language operating through recurrent word combinations. The present study deals with one type of word combinations, namely lexical bundles (LBs), which are defined as a sequence of three or more words that frequently co-occur in a particular register (Biber et al., 1999). READ MORE

  3. 3. Naïve listeners’ perceptual learning of Chinese tones: The influence of L1 background in prosody and the effect of an auditory-image (AI) training paradigm

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

    Author : Lili Wen; [2019]
    Keywords : Tone perception; Tone acquisition; Mandarin 声调感知; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The present perceptual learning study was conducted in an attempt to investigate to which extent naïve listeners’ L1 prosodic background affected their learning performance of a lexical tone language and whether an auditory-image (AI) training paradigm curtailed the online-learning process of lexical tones. Thirty-three Mandarin-naïve Swedish-native listeners (NS listeners) and 33 Mandarin-naïve English-native listeners (NE listeners) participated in a behaviour experiment designed to answer the question of whether native listeners of a pitch accent language (NS listeners) had an advantage over native listeners of a non-tonal non-pitch-accent language (NE listeners) in learning to perceive tones in Mandarin Chinese (MC). READ MORE

  4. 4. A Sociophonetic Analysis of the Role of Cultural Identification in L2 English Speech Production

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jaana Kalev; [2018]
    Keywords : Rhoticity; sociophonetics; social network theory; study abroad; cultural identification.;

    Abstract : Research in the relationship between second language (L2) production and study abroad has largely focused on establishing a connection between exchange studies and the success rate of second language acquisition. This Bachelor's thesis investigates L2 production by studying L2 English speakers' attitudes regarding the target language culture in relation to their production of a regionally typical phoneme by formulating the research question “How does cultural identification with the target language environment influence L2 phonetic production in the L1 language community?” in hopes of contributing to sociophonetic studies. READ MORE

  5. 5. Attitudes of Swedish Learners of Japanese towards Japanese Dialects: A Quantitative Study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Elsa Fahl; [2017]
    Keywords : Japanese; dialects; language attitudes; dialect attitudes; dialect identification; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The present thesis is a quantitative study investigating the attitudes of Swedish learners of Japanese towards Japanese dialects. Current or previous Swedish students of Japanese completed a survey in which they listened to recordings of five different dialects of Japanese, and evaluated these dialects in terms of various personality traits. READ MORE