Essays about: "noun in english"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 54 essays containing the words noun in english.

1. 1. A quantitative study of Swedish high school L2 learners' receptive knowledge of English lexical collocations

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Louise Frifelt; [2024]
   Keywords : Collocations; Multi-word units; Formulaic language; Second language acquisition; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This paper investigates receptive knowledge of English lexical collocations among Swedish high school students. The study tests the claim that L2 (second language) learners of English have a low level of collocational competence and tend to recognise high-frequent collocations more than low-frequent since the former have been encountered more. READ MORE

3. 2. Nested Noun Phrase Detection in English Text with BERT

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Shweta Misra; [2023]
   Keywords : Phrase detection; nested noun phrase identification; phrase structure identification; sentence parsing; transformer models; machine learning; natural language processing; Frasdetektering; kapslad substantivfrasidentifiering; frasstrukturidentifiering; meningsanalys; transformers-modeller; maskininlärning; naturlig språkbehandling;

   Abstract : In this project, we address the task of nested noun phrase identification in English sentences, where a phrase is defined as a group of words functioning as one unit in a sentence. Prior research has extensively explored the identification of various phrases for language understanding and text generation tasks. READ MORE

4. 3. Subject-Verb Agreement Errors in Swedish 9th and 11th Grade Students’ English Written Production

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Maiko Tsukanaka; [2023]
   Keywords : Second Language Acquisition SLA ; Swedish Learner English Corpus SLEC ; Swedish-speaking learners of English; Error analysis; Subject-verb agreement; Transfer; Overgeneralization;

   Abstract : This study aims to investigate possible factors contributing to subject-verb agreement errors in Swedish junior and senior high school students' English written production. The sample data is collected from the Swedish Learner English Corpus (SLEC), which comprises student texts produced in a classroom setting. READ MORE

5. 4. A contrastive study on the translation of hyphenated compounds in fashion writing

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Jennifer Tobiasson; [2023]
   Keywords : English; explicitation; fashion writing; hyphenated compounds; simplification; Swedish; translation; translation strategies; translation universals;

   Abstract : This study examines the translation of hyphenated compounds from English to Swedish in a non-fiction text about fashion. The translation is performed by the author of this study, which is important to keep in mind. READ MORE

6. 5. Wicked Witches and Evil Queens? : A corpus-based study of the near-synonyms evil and wicked in contemporary American English

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

   Author : Mariam Barazeghi; [2023]
   Keywords : adjectives; collocations; corpus linguistics; dictionaries; gender studies; synonyms;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine what contemporary corpora can reveal about the use of the two adjectives evil and wicked. These two synonyms have been analysed using corpus linguistics in order to acquire results about the differences between them regarding frequency of use, as well as their collocating nouns. READ MORE