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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Swiss German"”.
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Berne, Indiana Swiss German: Lessons learned from a small-scale documentation project
… capture, through audio recording, samples of the Swiss German language that could be presented to the Berne community and preserved for future use. As much as possible, this project was carried out according to best practices for language documentation, so that the data will be accessible to the …
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Adapting To Change in the Swiss German Media Industry: Identifying and Developing Competencies Needed by Journalists and Editors To Cope with Future Market Needs - A Collective Case Study
… for coping with media convergence in the Swiss German media industry. The requirements for convergent work are the following seven competency themes: technical skills, social and emotional skills, cognitive skills, writing and linguistic skills, publishing and production skills, innovation …
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Syntactic learning from ambiguous evidence : errors and end-states
… embedded clause verb placement errors in child Swiss German by learning from ambiguous input. I then show how learning from ambiguous input allows the model to account for grammatical variability across speakers with regard to verb movement in Korean. Finally, I show that the model is …
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Speech rhythm: the language-specific integration of pitch and duration
… languages with different prosodic structures – Swiss German, Swiss French, and French (i.e. from France). The first experiment demonstrated that a dynamic f0 increases perceived syllable duration in contextually isolated pairs of monosyllables, for all three language groups. The second …
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The development of schooling in Floyd County, Virginia 1831-1900
… they would not patronize. As settlers of Swiss, German, and Scotch-Irish descent migrated into the backcountry of Virginia, they brought with them a desire for universal education. The conflicts between the eastern and western portion of the state resulted in the Literary Fund Act of 1818 …