Search for dissertations about: "language production"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 215 swedish dissertations containing the words language production.

  2. 16. Representing discourse referents in speech and gesture

    Author : Sandra Debreslioska; Språkinlärning; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; discourse; gestures; bimodal reference; narrative; German; cohesion; speech-gesture co-expressivity; speech-gesture relationship; language production; language perception; elicitation task; reaction time experiment; psycholinguistics;

    Abstract : The thesis examines the way that speech and gestures are used together to represent referents in discourse. The starting point is the generally acknowledged observation that gestures are a constitutive part of language (Kendon, 2004; McNeill, 1992). READ MORE

  4. 17. Language problems at 2½ years of age and their relationship with school-age language impairment and neuropsychiatric disorders

    Author : Carmela Miniscalco; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : language screening; language development; language delay; longitudinal; neuropsychiatric disorders; narrative skill;

    Abstract : Background: International research has shown that language delay (LD) is associated with social, cognitive, emotional and/or behavioural deficiencies, but there is still a need for extended knowledge about LD at early age and its relationship with long-term language impairment and neuropsychiatric disorders in Swedish children. Aims: To study (a) if children with a positive screening result or a negative screening result at 2½ years of age showed persistent or transient language difficulties at 6 years of age and, (b) whether or not children identified by language screening at 2½ years of age were diagnosed with language, neurodevelopmental and/or neuropsychiatric impairments at school age. READ MORE

  5. 18. Clustering in Swedish : The Impact of some Properties of the Swedish Language on Document Clustering and an Evaluation Method

    Author : Magnus Rosell; Viggo Kann; Björn Levin; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Document Clustering; Language technology; Språkteknologi;

    Abstract : Text clustering divides a set of texts into groups, so that texts within each group are similar in content. It may be used to uncover the structure and content of unknown text sets as well as to give new perspectives on known ones. READ MORE

  6. 19. CALL of the Wild : Using language technology in the second language classroom

    Author : Petter Karlström; Robert Ramberg; Teresa Cerratto-Pargman; Philip Hubbard; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer Assisted Language Learning; Human-Computer Interaction; Interaction Design; Language Technology; Sociocultural Theory; Computer and systems science; Data- och systemvetenskap; Man-Machine-Interaction MMI ; människa-maskin-interaktion mmi ;

    Abstract : Technology that analyzes written human language displays compelling possibilities for computer assisted language learning (CALL). Applications may be designed to examine second language students’ free text production in order to suggest improvements, draw attention to selected linguistic elements, provide examples from native language use, etc. READ MORE

  7. 20. Learning of definiteness in Belarusian students of Swedish as a foreign language

    Author : Anders Agebjörn; Åsa Wengelin; Micheal Sharwood Smith; University of Gothenburg; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; second-language acquisition; third-language acquisition; Russian; English; Swedish; definiteness; noun phrase; implicit and explicit knowledge; cross-linguistic influence; language-learning aptitude; complexity; input frequency;

    Abstract : Through a series of studies, this thesis investigates the learning of definiteness in Russian-speaking students of Swedish. A communicative oral-production task elicited modified and non-modified noun phrases in indefinite and definite contexts. READ MORE