Sökning: "stress and intonation"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade orden stress and intonation.

  1. 1. A phonetic and multimodal exploration of the BA construction of the Chinese imperative

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Författare :Guohua Hu; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Chinese imperative; 把 bǎ ‘Ba’ construction; syntax; prosody; gesture; multimodality; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Previous studies of the Chinese imperative have treated syntax and prosody separately, have not considered gestures, and have looked at sentences in isolation and not in discourse. This study therefore investigated how the relationship between grammatical components, intonation (perceived stress), and gesture are co-organized and interact in the 把 bǎ ‘Ba’ construction (i. LÄS MER

  3. 2. THE PROSODY OF TENSE MARKING IN TEKE-EBOO. A Bantu B70 language of Congo-Brazzaville

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Ruth Raharimanantsoa; [2017-06-20]
    Nyckelord :Afrikanska språk; African linguistics; Bantu B70 language cluster; Eboo; Kukuya; tense marking; stem-initial stress accent; tone melodies; grammatical tone; intonation; downstep; boundary L tone;

    Sammanfattning : Teke-Eboo is a Bantu B70 language spoken in Congo-Brazzaville, which displays complex tone melodies combining grammatical tone, subject agreement tone and lexical tone on verbs. This study of tense marking in Eboo identifies the tones which mark the recent past, general past and future tenses, and shows how the underlying high-low (H-L) contrastive tone system adds both downstepped H and mid (M) tones in surface realisations. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Learning to listen to myself: performing as a conscious act

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

    Författare :CÉSAR VÁZQUEZ LUPIÓN; [2017-02-06]
    Nyckelord :Awareness; intonation; sound quality; influence of feelings in performance; performing; practising; violin;

    Sammanfattning : For me, as a violin player, it is very important to develop my listening skills when practising and performing. By listening to my playing, I can get instant feedback concerning the parameters of intonation, sound quality and even bow technique. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Gender and Language : A matched-guise study exploring linguistic stereotyping using voice morphing

    Master-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Mattias Östling; [2016]
    Nyckelord :sexism; stereotyping; matched-guise; voice morphing; sociolinguistics; collaborative speech; competitive speech;

    Sammanfattning : The matched-guise test, which was originally developed by Lambert et al. (1960), has been useful in determining covert attitudes towards accents, dialects, or languages. In this paper, the author presents a fresh take on matched-guise tests in sociolinguistics utilizing modern technology to digitally manipulate a female voice into a male voice. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Svenska studenters uppfattningar av tonerna i kinesiska tvåstaviga ord

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Författare :Guohua Hu; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Chinese word prosody; Chinese tones; Chinese consonant categories; tone confusions; Chinese disyllabic words; Swedish consonant categories; Swedish word accents; kinesisk ordprosodi; kinesiska toner; kinesiska konsonantkategorier; ton- missuppfattningar; kinesiska tvåstaviga ord; svenska konsonantkategorier; svenska ordaccenter;

    Sammanfattning : Studenter med ett icke-tonspråk som modersmål brukar ha svårigheter att lära sig de kinesiskatonerna när de börjar sina studier. Å ena sidan brukar kursböckerna på denna nivån användabara enstaviga ord och det har ansetts vara god pedagogik att läraren visar tonkonturerna medsina händer. LÄS MER