Search for dissertations about: "lexical structure"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 33 swedish dissertations containing the words lexical structure.

  2. 6. Studies in Sound Symbolism

    Author : Åsa Abelin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sound symbolism; lexical structure; synaesthesia; productivity; universals;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how the Swedish lexicon is structured with respect to sound symbolism, the productivity of phonesthemes and cross language similarities in certain areas of sound symbolism. The Swedish lexicon has been analyzed with emphasis on the sound symbolic properties of initial and final consonant clusters, and to a certain extent of vowels. READ MORE

  4. 7. Getting it Together: A Genre Analysis of the Rhetorical Structure of Open University Television Programmes in Science and Technology

    Author : Rowena Jansson; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; distance learning.; television teaching; metadiscourse; transition; episode; rhetorical structure; Genre analysis; discourse analysis; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : This thesis is concerned with uncovering the organisational structure underpinning Open University television programmes in scientific and technological fields. Using a genre analysis which takes into account the unique contextual configuration in which vision and pedagogical purpose play a vital part a rhetorical structure is revealed. READ MORE

  5. 8. Multilingual text generation from structured formal representations

    Author : Dana Dannélls; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Coherence; computational linguistics; coreference; corpus linguistics discourse structure; knowledge representation; language technology; lexical semantics; linked open data; multilingual natural language generation; natural language processing; ontology; semantic web.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to identify the optimal ways in which natural language generation techniques can be brought to bear upon the problem of processing a structured body of information in order to devise a coherent presentation of text content in multiple languages. We investigate how chains of referential expressions are realized in English, Swedish and Hebrew, and suggest several coreference strategies that can be used to generate coherent descriptions about paintings. READ MORE

  6. 9. Speech perception, phonological sensitivity, and articulation in early vocabulary development

    Author : Iris-Corinna Schwarz; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; speech perception; phonological representation; language acquisition; early vocabulary development; lexical restructuring; Children s language; Barnspråk;

    Abstract : Speech perception, articulation, and word learning are three major tiers of language development in young children, integrating perceptual and productive language abilities. Infant speech perception precedes speech production and is the basis for native language learning. READ MORE

  7. 10. Argument Differentiation. Soft constraints and data-driven models

    Author : Lilja Øvrelid; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; syntactic arguments; parsing; lexical acquisition; animacy; Scandinavian syntax; soft constraints; data-driven models; machine learning;

    Abstract : The ability to distinguish between different types of arguments is central to syntactic analysis, whether studied from a theoretical or computational point of view. This thesis investigates the influence and interaction of linguistic properties of syntactic arguments in argument differentiation. READ MORE