Essays about: "pitch accent."

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1. 1. Accentual change in the lexical form of Japanese i-adjectives : Comparison over time with attention to rentaikei and shuushikei

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

   Author : Thea Johansson; [2020]
   Keywords : Japanese pitch accent; Adjective; Shuushikei; Rentaikei; Accentual change; Perceptual acceptability; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study investigates the seemingly increasing spread of accentedness within Japanese i-adjectives in lexical final form, shuushikei, and adnominal form, rentaikei, by conducting an online survey containing Likert scale questions. Once the data had been collected, the informants were separated into age groups and their results compared between each other. READ MORE

3. 2. L2 intonation by Swedish learners of Japanese:Analysis of pitch accent and prosodic phrasing errors

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

   Author : Natsumi Goto; [2020]
   Keywords : L2 Japanese intonation; Swedish learners of Japanese; L2 errors at the phrasal and sentence levels; pitch accent.; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the L2 intonation of Swedish learners of Japanese with a focus on pitch accent and prosodic phrasing errors. Previous studies have attempted to predict L2 learners’ difficulties and errors, such as Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH) by Lado (1957) and Markedness Differential Hypothesis (MDH) by Eckman (1977; 1985). READ MORE

4. 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

5. 4. Speech-to-speech translation using deep learning

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

   Author : Fredrik Bredmar; [2017-03-17]
   Keywords : Neural Networks; Deep Learning; LSTM; RNN; Speech-to-speech translation;

   Abstract : Current state-of-the-art translation systems for speech-to-speech rely heavily on a text representation for the translation. By transcoding speech to text we lose important information about the characteristics of the voice such as the emotion, pitch and accent. READ MORE

6. 5. What is possible to learn? A study of learners´perspectives of a novel technology, MIROR Body Gesture

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

   Author : Sarah Mercieca; [2014-11-27]
   Keywords : Learners´perspectives; Variation theory; Music technology; Object of learning;

   Abstract : Aim: Previous research within the Musical Interaction Relying On Reflection (MIROR) project has underestimated children’s own voices when investigating learning enhancing music technology. This study uncovers six young children’s perspectives regarding what is possible to learn when interacting with a novel music technology known as MIROR Body Gesture (BG). READ MORE