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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"corpus study"”.
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Speech Rhythm in American English: A Corpus Study
… the speech from the Boston University Radio News corpus, comparing the patterns of rhythmic shortening in two different types of prosodic domains, the ISI (inter-stress interval) and the IAI (inter-accent interval). The main finding is evidence for rhythmic shortening in the domain defined in …
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Factors Affecting Pretonic Deletion in English Syllables: A Corpus Study
<p>One type of variation in pronunciation that is associated with fast and/or conversational speech is <em>massive reduction</em>, in which entire syllables are deleted. We focus on a subtype of massive reduction, pretonic vowel deletion, where the vowel in an unstressed syllable is deleted and the …
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Representation of foreign countries in the US press : a corpus study
This study examines the representation of foreign countries in two US newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post. The corpus comprises foreign news reports between the years 1999-2003 amounting to approximately 42 million words of running text. The thesis presents 5 analyses each …
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Corpus study of tense, aspect, and modality in diglossic speech in Cairene Arabic
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Disciplinary variation in academic writing : a corpus study of PhD theses in English language and literature
… empirical approach adopted here is grounded on Corpus Linguistics. Lor this reason, two specialized corpora - totaling 40 texts and 2.9 million words - were compiled, allowing for a thorough analysis of the registers of Language and Literature theses. These corpora were probed by means of …
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Variation in academic writing among Generation 1.5 learners, native English-speaking learners and ESL learners: the discoursal self of G1.5 student writers
… 1.5 students and design criteria for an extended corpus study. Module II: o A pilot study of early results from a corpus study comparing G1.5, ESL, and NES student academic writing, with a focus of pronoun and modal use. Module III: o A study involving surveys and interviews to evaluate what both …
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Online sarcasm and its perception by second language learners : the case of Iraqi EFL learners in Iraq and the UK
… L2 irony and sarcasm. The main purpose of this study is to investigate how EFL learners recognize written British English sarcasm. For this purpose, an L2 pragmatics study was designed and applied to two groups of L2 learners of English. Another purpose of the study is to pragmatically analyse …
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A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CAUSALITY IN HATE SPEECH
… research questions (1) and (2), I conducted a corpus analysis of select causal constructions and strategies of indirect speech using annotated English hate speech datasets to see what syntactic choices were made in hate speech when referencing minority (targeted) groups and majority groups. I …
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Chinese rhythm in second language acquisition
… depends on semantic conditions. The third study complements the AJTs by analyzing learner production data from a large-scale Chinese learner corpus—the HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the Chinese Proficiency Test) Dynamic Composition Corpus. This corpus study identifies violations of prosodic …
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One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish
… to vary independently of each other. A small corpus study of spoken Danish shows no differences between referent accessibility in indefinite and definite pronominal forms. Furthermore, referents of definite and indefinite forms clearly tend to differ with respect to identifiability. An …
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Les localisateurs dans les constructions existentielles: approche comparée en espagnol, en français et en italien
This dissertation sets out a contrastive study of the most frequent existential presentational constructions in Spanish, French and Italian, respectively hay, il y a and c’è. It is divided into two major parts, both consisting of four chapters. The first part presents a status quaestionis of the …
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Pursuing the meaning of expressiveness: a holistic, radical contextualist account of lexical expressives
… or not. From this starting point, I conduct a corpus study that serves as the foundation for a novel typology of lexical expressive items based on three parameters: (i) lexico-syntactic, (ii) at-issueness and (iii) functional role. The empirically derived categories of lexical expressives …
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Enhancing Access to the Matchday Experience: Considering the Role and Purpose of Audio Descriptive Football Commentary
… arising from free-text responses. Chapter 3 is a corpus study examining the textual similarities and differences between ADC and radio. A coding model is devised to quantitatively explore the texts considering three main aspects: i. How closely does commentary follow the football event? ii. What …
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Computational Approaches to the Syntax–Prosody Interface: Using Prosody to Improve Parsing
… in French. Data collected in a previous study were reanalyzed using native speaker judgment and automatic methods (forced alignment). Results demonstrate similar prosodic splitting behavior as in English in contradiction to the original study’s findings.</p> <p>Chapter 3 presents a number …
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This Is What a Feminist Tweets Like: "Women's Language" and Styling Activist Identities in a #YesAllWomen Twitter Corpus
<p>This dissertation presents results of a study of linguistic practice in the context of feminist activism on Twitter. Twitter has become a primary medium for social and political activism and a rich venue for study of the relationship between digitally mediated language and identity production. …
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A quantitative and qualitative analysis of competing motivations interacting in the placement of finite relative clauses in Hindi
… 2012). Hindi finite RCs present an ideal case study for investigating clausal ordering because they can optionally occupy three positions: at the left edge of the main clause (left-peripheral or correlatives), at the right edge of the main clause (right-peripheral or extraposed), and …
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Improved source code editing for effective ad-hoc code reuse
… model called Hidden Markov model trained on a corpus of code and abbreviation examples. Finally, the new methods for bug detection and code phrase completion are evaluated through corpus and user studies. In 7 well-maintained open source projects, the bug detection method found 87 previously …
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Immediate and extended intersubjectivity : synchronic and diachronic interplay among evidentiality, factuality and other domains
… from a number of qualitative and quantitative corpus surveys on the immediate and extended intersubjectification of some constructions and in particular the presuppositional chunk [you don’t want X] in British and American English (cf. chapter 4). According to this framework, it is now possible …
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