Search for dissertations about: "language function"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 247 swedish dissertations containing the words language function.

  2. 1. Acquisition of reference to self and others in Greek Sign Language : From pointing gesture to pronominal pointing signs

    Author : Marianna Hatzopoulou; Brita Bergman; Richard P. Meier; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; deaf children; Greek Sign Language; personal pronouns; pointing; pointing signs; reference; sign language acquisition; Sign language; Teckenspråk; Sign Language; teckenspråk;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the emergence of the linguistic use of pointing as first- and non-first-person pronoun in Greek Sign Language. Despite the similarity in form between the pointing gesture and pronominal pointing signs, children acquiring sign language pass through the same stages and acquire personal pronouns at about the same age as children acquiring spoken language. READ MORE

  4. 2. Towards a grammar of spoken South Saami

    Author : Richard Kowalik; Ljuba Veselinova; Henrik Liljegren; Matti Miestamo; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; South Saami; Saamic languages; grammar; phonology; morphology; syntax; language description; language documentation; fieldwork; heritage language; minority language; Åarjelsaemien gïele; grammatihke; Sydsamiska; samiska språk; grammatik; Sørsamisk; grammatikk; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Abstract : This thesis is a grammatical description of South Saami, a Uralic language traditionally spoken in central Sweden and Norway. South Saami has today around 500 speakers, many of whom live far from each other. The language has the status of an official language in Norway and is an officially recognized minority language in Sweden. READ MORE

  5. 3. English-Medium Instruction in Sweden : Perspectives and practices in two upper secondary schools

    Author : BethAnne Yoxsimer Paulsrud; Inger Lindberg; Philip Shaw; Ofelia García; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; English-medium instruction EMI ; Content and Language Integrated Learning CLIL ; upper secondary school; English in Sweden; language policy; translanguaging; academic language; language hierarchy; Education in Languages and Language Development; utbildningsvetenskap med inriktning mot språk och språkutveckling; Utbildning och lärande;

    Abstract : This thesis presents English-medium instruction (EMI) in the Swedish context, focusing on perspectives and practices in two schools. The research question is as follows: How and why is EMI offered, chosen, and practiced in the Swedish upper secondary school today? The aim is to explore the status of the educational option, the reasons for offering EMI to stakeholders, the stakeholders’ beliefs about and goals of EMI, and the implementation of EMI in the classroom. READ MORE

  6. 4. Splitting rocks: Learning word sense representations from corpora and lexica

    Author : Luis Nieto Piña; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; language technology; natural language processing; distributional models; semantic representations; distributed representations; word senses; embeddings; word sense disambiguation; linguistic resources; corpus; lexicon; machine learning; neural networks;

    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

  7. 5. On protein structure, function and modularity from an evolutionary perspective

    Author : Robert Pilstål; Björn Wallner; Maria Sunnerhagen; Mauno Vihinen; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; bioinformatics; structure; biology; intrinsical; disorder; protein; sequence; evolution; mutation; epistasis; function; allostery; dynamics; simulation; prediction; graph; network; bioinformatik; struktur; biologi; strukturbiologi; intrinsiellt; oordnad; protein; sekvens; evolution; mutation; epistasis; funktion; allosteri; dynamik; simulation; prediktion; graf; nätverk;

    Abstract : We are compounded entities, given life by a complex molecular machinery. When studying these molecules we have to make sense of a diverse set of dynamical nanostructures with wast and intricate patterns of interactions. READ MORE