Search for dissertations about: "Lexicon"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 49 swedish dissertations containing the word Lexicon.
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6. The building blocks of sound symbolism
Abstract : Languages contain thousands of words each and are made up by a seemingly endless collection of sound combinations. Yet a subsection of these show clear signs of corresponding word shapes for the same meanings which is generally known as vocal iconicity and sound symbolism. READ MORE
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7. Mapping prosody onto the lexicon : Memory traces for lexically specified prosodic information in the brain
Abstract : Lexical access, the matching of auditory information onto lexical representations in the brain, is a crucial component of online language processing. To understand the nature of lexical access, it is important to identify the kind of acoustic information that is stored in the long-term memory and to study how the brain uses such information. READ MORE
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8. On the principles of word formation in Swedish
Abstract : My thesis is an attempt to give a minimalist account of word formation in Swedish. (See Chomsky (1993) and (1994).) In the main part of my thesis I demonstrate how the proposed system accounts for the central aspects of Swedish word formation. READ MORE
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9. Lågtyskt och svenskt i Stockholms medeltida tänkeböcker
Abstract : The main aim of this study is to investigate which factors contributed to the extensive Middle Low German influence on Old Swedish during the Middle Ages and to test the hypothesis that bilinguals played an active role in this process. The study is based on material from the Stockholm city court records 1474—1508. READ MORE
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10. Splitting rocks: Learning word sense representations from corpora and lexica
Abstract : The representation of written language semantics is a central problem of language technology and a crucial component of many natural language processing applications, from part-of-speech tagging to text summarization. These representations of linguistic units, such as words or sentences, allow computer applications that work with language to process and manipulate the meaning of text. READ MORE