Essays about: "syntactic position"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words syntactic position.

  1. 1. INSERTIONS IN POPULAR HISTORY TEXTS - A contrastive study on translation from English to Swedish and from Swedish to English

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Gustav Landälv; [2023-02-27]
    Keywords : English; Swedish; readability; insertion; clause; phrase; syntactic position; popular history;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to compare the frequency of insertions in an English popular history text and a Swedish popular history text. Moreover, the purpose is to compare the English text with its Swedish translation and the Swedish text with its English translation as regards the status of the insertions as clauses, phrases or (in the translation) something else than a clause or a phrase. READ MORE

  3. 2. Analysis of Syntactic Behaviour of Neural Network Models by Using Gradient-Based Saliency Method : Comparative Study of Chinese and English BERT, Multilingual BERT and RoBERTa

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Jiayi Zhang; [2022]
    Keywords : neural network models; gradient-based saliency; BERT; mBERT; RoBERTa;

    Abstract : Neural network models such as Transformer-based BERT, mBERT and RoBERTa are achieving impressive performance (Devlin et al., 2019; Lewis et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2019; Raffel et al. READ MORE

  4. 3. Self-perceptions of Greek teachers of English regarding their effectiveness and employability opportunities as non-native English language teaching professionals

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

    Author : Stella Sakaloglou; [2022]
    Keywords : : teacher perceptions; non-native speaking language teachers; Teaching English as a Foreign Language TEFL ;

    Abstract : The aim of the present study is to find out what the self-perceptions of Greek non-native speaking teachers of English (non-NESTs) are regarding their effectiveness as foreign language teachers. What is more, the study aims to explore the Greek non-NESTs’ perceptions about their teaching employability opportunities, in positions for which NESTs also apply. READ MORE

  5. 4. Planning Processes in Speaking, Texting, and Writing – The effect of reader’s and listener’s temporal and spatial presence on planning in language production

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

    Author : Kajsa Gullberg; [2020]
    Keywords : language processing; spoken language production; written language production; computer mediated communication; CMC; planning processes; texting; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates planning processes in language production, more specifically in texting as compared to speaking and writing, through pauses analyses (Goldman Eisler, 1969; Matsuhashi, 1981). Texting is used to examine the role of the spatial and temporal presence of a listener/reader in language production. READ MORE

  6. 5. Topicalisation and Left-Dislocation in European Portuguese

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Robert Farren; [2016]
    Keywords : clitic left-dislocation; topicalization; topicalisation; CLLD; Portuguese; intonation; prosody; pragmatics; information structure; topic; Languages and Literatures; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Topicalisation (TOP) and clitic left-dislocation (CLLD) are syntactic strategies in which some constituent occurs sentence-initially rather than in canonical position further to the right. European Portuguese is exceptional among Romance languages, as both TOP and CLLD can be used to place verbal arguments in clause-initial position. READ MORE