Linguistic theory and raw sound / edited by Peter Juel Henrichsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henrichsen, Peter Juel.

Series:

Copenhagen studies in language, 0905-9857 ; 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Frederiksberg : Samfundslitteratur, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume contains a collection of papers on spoken language: how to represent it, analyse it, and explain it, without resorting to preconceived notions from text-based linguistics. The papers were presented at an explorative symposium held in Mullsjo, Sweden in August 2009.

Contents:

""Linguistic Theory and Raw Sound""; ""Contents""; ""Editor's Preface""; ""CMOL""; ""Editor's note""; ""Words and alternative basic units for linguistic analysis""; ""Abstract""; ""1. What is a word?""; ""2. Analysis and definitions building on observation and supposed easy discovery""; ""(i) Orthographic words""; ""(ii) Phonological words""; ""(iii) Gestural words""; ""3. Analysis and definitions building on manipulability""; ""3.1 Moveability""; ""(i) Movement of morpheme""; ""(ii) Movement of phrase""; ""1. Different types of �anomalous. collocations""; ""2. Fomulae""

""Simple formulae""""Sayings""; ""Proverbs""; ""Similes""; ""3. Metaphors""; ""Transparent metaphors""; ""Semi-transparent metaphors""; ""Opaque metaphors""; ""3.2 Resistance to �intrusion and interruption�""; ""4. Analysis and definitions building on abstraction""; ""5. Words, corpus analysis and typological comparison""; ""6. Are there alternatives to the traditional notion of word as a basis for corpus analysis and linguistic comparison?""; ""7. Concluding remarks""; ""References""; ""Den Lilla Trekant - Learning Danish shape and color terms from scratch""; ""Abstract""

""1. Introduction""""2. A learning experiment""; ""2.1 Formal preliminaries""; ""2.2 Color blindness""; ""3. Implementing InShape-1""; ""3.1 Extract_phones""; ""3.2 Find_siblings""; ""3.3 Assign_shapes""; ""3.4 Assign_colors""; ""4. Results""; ""4. 1 The linguistic constraints revisited""; ""5. Discussion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""Official web pages""; ""Stress, pauses, pronominal types and pronominal functions in Danish spoken data""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Background""; ""3. The Danish data""; ""3.1 The Danish sn-pronouns""; ""3.2 The spoken corpora""

""3.3 The annotation""""4. Pronominal types, pronominal functions and referent types in spoken Danish""; ""5. The role of stress, pause and hesitation information on the recognition of the function of sn-pronouns""; ""5.1 Related studies""; ""6. Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Looking for lost syllables in Danish spontaneous speech""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Overview of the Danish sound structure""; ""1.1 Consonant lenition""; ""1.2 Schwa assimilation""; ""1.3 The phonetic result""; ""2. Challenges""; ""3. Which syllables are lost?""; ""3.1 DanPASS""; ""3.2 Statistics""

""3.3 What words are affected?""""4. Discussion""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Appendix - Terminology""; ""New directions for the Uniqueness Point""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Morphological UPs for prefixed words""; ""3. New morphological UPs""; ""4. Phonological UPs and fine phonetic detail""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Exploring classification of Swedish dialects by speech melody""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Related work""; ""2.1 Automatic identification of languages and dialects""; ""2.2 Automatic music classification and retrieval""

""3. Representing speech melody""

Notes:

Symposium papers.

Includes bibliographical references.