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  1. 1. Between the Private and a Public Place : Lived experiences in contemporary Elfdalian Revitalisation

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Johan Lundell; [2023]
    Keywords : Elfdalian; Älvdalen; language death; revitalisation; language survival; visibility; presence; framing; frame theory; place; place-making; place-framing;

    Abstract : Many of the languages in the world are currently dying at an alarming rate. One of these languagesis Eldalian. It is a small language spoken by about 2,500 people in the village of Älvdalen in theDalarna county of Sweden. READ MORE

  3. 2. DIALOGUE STRATEGIES FOR VOCABULARY LEARNING User Initiative in Dialogue Systems for Second Language Learning

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

    Author : Andrea Carrión del Fresno; [2022-10-06]
    Keywords : spoken dialogue systems; second language learning; repair strategies; code-switching; production problem;

    Abstract : When building efficient dialogue systems, a major challenge is recovering from miscommunication. Analyzing human-human interaction leads to discovering repair strategies that contribute towards conversational systems able to communicate in a natural and effective way. READ MORE

  4. 3. Selection of the Most Suitable Linguistic Features for Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease from Changes in Spoken Language Production

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Luboš Říha; [2022]
    Keywords : Alzheimer s disease; Linguistics; Speech analysis; diagnosis;

    Abstract : Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is one of the most widespread, neurodegenerative diseases in the world. It affects millions of people; and although it is widely researched, an efficient cure has not been discovered yet. Identification of the disease is often costly and time consuming. READ MORE

  5. 4. Triptych of ruderal architecture

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Erik Lokrantz; [2021]
    Keywords : nonhuman actors; ownership; property; artistic research; speculative fabulation; science fiction; ruin; ruderal; deterritorialization; reterritorialization; haraway; bennet; stengers; le guin;

    Abstract : The Ruderal Triptych is a narrative, fictional, artistic, research project. It centers itself on questions of ownership as a legal and physical machinery, that works within global extractive economies. I want to question what we are really producing when we produce architecture. READ MORE

  6. 5. This shit gonna get real heavy - A quantitative study on the use of African-American Vernacular English in The Wire and The Princess and the Frog. : This shit gonna get real heavy - En kvantitativ studie om hur afroamerikansk engelska används i The Wire och Prinsessan och grodan.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Viktor Everstam; [2021]
    Keywords : African-American Vernacular English; AAVE; English; entertainment; linguistics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate how the spoken variety African-American VernacularEnglish (AAVE) is used in entertainment. This is performed by comparing the spoken language oftwo fictional characters from two different sources of entertainment who are depicted as AAVEspeakers. READ MORE