Essays about: "tone language"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 55 essays containing the words tone language.

1. 21. Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis of CNN and Fox News Headlines: A Case of Immigration Detention in the US

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Catalina Maruri Ramos; [2019]
   Keywords : Critical discourse analysis; immigration detention; representation; headlines; reference strategies; transitivity; news media; political ideology.;

   Abstract : Immigration policies and border control in the US were hardened significantly more ever since the new government’s immigration executive order in 2017. A series of massive raids and immigrant detentions were carried out which got the attention of both human rights activists and the news media. READ MORE

3. 22. 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. 23. Measuring the information content of Riksbank meeting minutes

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för fysik

   Author : Sofia Fröjd; [2019]
   Keywords : Latent Dirichlet Allocation; Natual Language Processing; Central Bank communication; Hawk-o-meter; Riksbank;

   Abstract : As the amount of information available on the internet has increased sharply in the last years, methods for measuring and comparing text-based information is gaining popularity on financial markets. Text mining and natural language processing has become an important tool for classifying large collections of texts or documents. READ MORE

5. 24. Trump’s tweet and media treat : A Critical discourse analysis of US and Pakistani newspapers

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Journalistik

   Author : Iftikhar Ahmed; [2018]
   Keywords : Twitter and news media; Trump’s tweet about Pakistan; Afghan war; CDA; Framing.;

   Abstract : Trump’s new year tweet about Pakistan’s role in the fight against terrorism ignited a controversy and a war of words between Pakistani officials and the US. This thesis studies newspaper coverage of both countries on this particular issue. READ MORE

6. 25. Selected topics in the grammar and lexicon of Matal

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

   Author : Allahverdi Verdizade; [2018]
   Keywords : Matal; Chadic languages; verbal morphology; Afroasiatic languages; Cameroon; parallel text; under-documented langauges; Matal; tchadspråk; verbmorfologi; afroasiatiska språk; Kamerun; parallelltext; underdocumenterade språk;

   Abstract : This thesis describes basic grammatical features and lexicon of Matal, a Chadic language spoken by around 18 000 people in northern Cameroon. A translation of the New Testament is used as a parallel text for the purposes of this study. The identified language structures are compared with other Chadic languages. READ MORE