Search for dissertations about: "linguistic concept study"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 43 swedish dissertations containing the words linguistic concept study.

  1. 1. Snakes and Ladders : Developmental Aspects of Lexical-Conceptual Relationships in the Multilingual Mental Lexicon

    Author : Lari-Valtteri Suhonen; Språkinlärning; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; third language acquisition; cross-linguistic influence; mental lexicon; multilingualism; psychotypology; L3; attrition; second language acquisition; SLA; TLA; transfer; concept; cognitive control; working memory; CLI; multidirectional; multilingual mental lexicon; MML; acquisition; learning; translation ambiguity; introspection; longitudinal;

    Abstract : One phenomenon causing issues for language learners in the form of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) is translation ambiguity (Eddington & Tokowicz, 2013). Translation ambiguity refers to a situation where word meanings are different in a speaker’s languages. READ MORE

  2. 2. Risk, language and discourse

    Author : Max Boholm; Sven Ove Hansson; Niklas Möller; Terje Aven; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; risk; safety; concept; meaning; definiton; discourse; langauge; risk communication; corpus linguistics; content analysis; nanotechnology; nanoparticle; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis; risk; safety; concept; meaning; definiton; discourse; langauge; risk communication; corpus linguistics; content analysis; nanotechnology; nanoparticle;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis analyses the concept of risk and how it functions as an organizing principle of discourse, paying close attention to actual linguistic practice.          Article 1 analyses the concepts of risk, safety and security and their relations based on corpus data (the Corpus of Contemporary American English). READ MORE

  3. 3. Fuzzy Set Theory Applied to Make Medical Prognoses for Cancer Patients

    Author : Hang Zettervall; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Fuzzy set theory; the Mamdani fuzzy control system; the Sugeno controller; fuzzy c-means clustering analysis; point set approximation; linguistic models; the 2-tuple linguistic representations; the hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets;

    Abstract : As we all know the classical set theory has a deep-rooted influence in the traditional mathematics. According to the two-valued logic, an element can belong to a set or cannot. In the former case, the element’s membership degree will be assigned to one, whereas in the latter case it takes the zero value. READ MORE

  4. 4. From Numerical Sensor Data to Semantic Representations : A Data-driven Approach for Generating Linguistic Descriptions

    Author : Hadi Banaee; Amy Loutfi; Erik Schaffernicht; Andrey Kiselev; Mobyen Ahmed; Antonio Chella; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Semantic representations; Conceptual spaces; Natural language generation; Temporal rule mining; Physiological sensors; Health monitoring system;

    Abstract : In our daily lives, sensors recordings are becoming more and more ubiquitous. With the increased availability of data comes the increased need of systems that can represent the data in human interpretable concepts. READ MORE

  5. 5. English and other foreign linguistic elements in spoken Swedish : studies of productive processes and their modelling using finite-state tools

    Author : Anders Lindström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the question of what native speakers of Swedish do when items originating in English and several other foreign languages occur in their native language. This issue is investigated at the phonological and morphological levels of contemporary Swedish. READ MORE