Search for dissertations about: "direct speech"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 32 swedish dissertations containing the words direct speech.

  2. 1. On direct bone conduction hearing devices : advances in transducer technology and measurement methods

    Author : Peder U. Carlsson; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; BAHA; Speech; Physiological acoustics; Hearing aid;

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  4. 2. Speech about speech. A developmental study on form and functions of direct and indirect speech

    Author : Åsa Nordqvist; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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  5. 3. Quantization, Perception and Speech Coding

    Author : Fredrik Nordén; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

    Abstract : This thesis is about compression of speech signals, a research area known as speech coding. The aim of a speech coder is to provide efficient digital representations of speech signals, required in digital transmission and storage systems. Contemporary speech coding algorithms typically separate the speech signal into sets of parameters. READ MORE

  6. 4. Incongruous tense in Swedish : Past and present tense use with deviant time reference

    Author : Per Klang; Ulla Stroh-Wollin; Joakim Nivre; Therese Lindström Tiedemann; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tense; time reference; aktionsarten; modality; evidentiality; mirativity; tense harmony; episodic and semantic memory; the historical present; point of view; direct speech; Swedish; Scandinavian Languages; Nordiska språk;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with incongruous tense in Swedish. Incongruous tense refers to uses of the past tense for events that overlap or succeed the moment of speech, which is normally considered to apply to the present tense, and uses of the present tense for events that precede the moment of speech, which is normally considered to apply to the past tense. READ MORE

  7. 5. Tag Questions in Fiction Dialogue

    Author : Karin Axelsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tag questions; fiction dialogue; direct speech; spoken conversation; pragmatics; corpus-based study; BNC; British English;

    Abstract : This study investigates the use of tag questions (TQs) in British English fiction dialogue by making comparisons to spoken conversation. Data has been retrieved from two subcorpora of the British National Corpus (BNC): a Fiction Subcorpus and the demographic part of the spoken component. READ MORE