Search for dissertations about: "spoken Swedish"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 67 swedish dissertations containing the words spoken Swedish.

  2. 1. English in spoken Swedish : a corpus study of two discourse domains

    Author : Harriet Sharp; Stig Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

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  4. 2. Sociolinguistic, comparative and historical perspectives on Scandinavian gender: With focus on Jamtlandic

    Author : Briana Van Epps; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grammatical gender; Jamtlandic; Swedish dialects; dialectology; dialect loss; language variation and change; gender assignment; Scandinavian; gender variability; diachrony; Old Norse; Old Swedish; Swedish; Norwegian; Elfdalian;

    Abstract : The present thesis investigates gender assignment in Jamtlandic from a sociolinguistic and historical/comparative perspective. Jamtlandic is a language variety spoken in northwestern Sweden in the province of Jämtland. It maintains a three-gender system, in contrast to Standard Swedish, which has a two-gender system. READ MORE

  5. 3. Temporal properties of spoken Swedish

    Author : Bertil Lyberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Svenska; Fonetik;

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  6. 4. Syntactic Variation in the Swedish of Adolescents in Multilingual Urban Settings : Subject-verb Order in Declaratives, Questions and Subordinate Clauses

    Author : Natalia Ganuza; Kari Fraurud; Paul Kerswill; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; syntactic variation; subject-verb inversion; non-inversion; language use in multilingual urban settings; multilingual youths; standard non-standard; Swedish; SLA; Bilingualism; Tvåspråkighet; tvåspråkighetsforskning; Bilingualism Research;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the use of word order variation, in particular the variable use of subject-verb inversion and non-inversion in main declarative clauses, among adolescents in contemporary multilingual settings in Sweden. The use of non-inversion in contexts that in standard Swedish require inversion is sometimes claimed to be characteristic of varieties of Swedish spoken among adolescents in multilingual urban areas. READ MORE

  7. 5. Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Aspect Markers by Native Swedish Adults

    Author : Luying Wang; Åke Viberg; Gisela Håkanson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Second language acquisition; Mandarin; Swedish; aspect-tense morphology; aspect marker; grammatical aspect; lexical aspect; acquisition order; the Aspect Hypothesis; the Distributional Bias Hypothesis; the Prototype Model;

    Abstract : This experimental study investigates the second language acquisition of the four Mandarin aspect markers -le, -guo, -zhe, and zai- by native Swedish university students enrolled in Chinese language courses in Sweden. The main points of inquiry are acquisition order, the Aspect Hypothesis, the Distributional Bias Hypothesis, and the Prototype Model. READ MORE