Search for dissertations about: "Allmän Språkvetenskap"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 269 swedish dissertations containing the words Allmän Språkvetenskap.

  2. 11. Situated Embodiment : Studies in the emergence of spatial meaning

    Author : Jordan Zlatev; Chris Sinha; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; General Linguistics; allmän språkvetenskap;

    Abstract : What does it mean to know a language? How do children acquire language, seemingly spontaneously? How is intersubjective linguistic meaning made possible? How are people able to understand utterances which they have not heard before? General questions such as these are of primal concern for modem theoretical linguistics. At the same time the dominant theoretical approach to answering them, generativism, has given rise to persistent anomalies and confusions. READ MORE

  4. 12. Rhythm and Intonation in Halh Mongolian

    Author : Anastasia Karlsson; Fonetik; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jämförande lingvistik; typology; Comparative linguistics; rhythm; prosodi; syllabification; Mongolian; Linguistics; Allmän språkvetenskap Lingvistik; Phonetics; phonology; fonologi; Fonetik; språktypologi; Finno-Ugrian and Altaic languages; Finsk-ugriska och altaiska språk;

    Abstract : This dissertation provides the first comprehensive account of the prosody of Halh (Khalkha) Mongolian as spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia. The phonological description is based on acoustic analysis of speech data collected from nine Mongolian-speakers. READ MORE

  5. 13. Concreteness, Specificity and Emotional Content in Swedish Nouns : Neurocognitive Studies of Word Meaning

    Author : Frida Blomberg; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; abstract; concrete; nouns; semantics; specificity; emotion; imageability; anomia; word ratings; EEG; ERP; N400; N700; dichotic listening; hemispheric lateralisation; lexical decision; Swedish; neurolinguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : The present thesis investigated Swedish nouns differing in concreteness, specificity and emotional content using linguistic, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods. The focus of Paper I was a semantic analysis of discourse produced by a person with a lesion in visual (left occipital) cortex. READ MORE

  6. 14. Manner Modifiers as Syntactic Heads

    Author : Victor Bogren Svensson; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; manner modifier; Incorporation; affixation; adverbial verb; morphology-syntax interface; Inuit languages; Formosan languages;

    Abstract : The present dissertation concerns typologically unusual ways of encoding manner information, namely verbal affixes (manner affixes), incorporated constituents (incorporated manner modifiers) and auxiliary verbs (manner adverbial verbs). A key proposal is that all three are overt realizations of syntactic heads merged in the clausal spine, thereby presenting novel data that can be used to probe into the relationship between morphology and syntax. READ MORE

  7. 15. Swedish word accents in sentence perspective

    Author : Gösta Bruce; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Abstract : Abstract is not available.... READ MORE