A5000829371- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
- Music Technology and Sound Studies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
- Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Gender Studies in Language
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Diverse Musicological Studies
- Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Digestive system and related health
- Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
- Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
Universität Hamburg
2018-2023
TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences
1995-2022
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2021
University of Münster
2013-2017
Hong Kong Baptist University
2017
Obafemi Awolowo University
2013
Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences
2003
Kempten University of Applied Sciences
1949
Deutsche Bahn (Germany)
1949
Goethe University Frankfurt
1928
In this paper, we provide an overview of the new GloWbE Corpus — Global Web-based English. is based on 1.9 billion words in 1.8 million web pages from 20 different English-speaking countries. Approximately 60 percent corpus comes informal blogs, and rest a wide range other genres text types. Because its large size, architecture interface, can be used to examine many types variation among dialects, which might not possible with corpora including lexis, morphology, (medium- low-frequency)...
Abstract This study investigates how age, gender, social class and dialect influence frequently speakers of British English use intensifiers (e.g. very ) in private conversations whether this has changed over the last two decades. With data drawn from 600 4M words included Spoken National Corpus (1994 2014 Sample), it is most comprehensive intensifier usage to date, taking into account 111 variants. Results show that, age groups classes, men less than women, gender differences have...
This study explores the system of progressive aspect marking in educated adult speakers Nigerian English (NigE), which has been claimed to differ distinctly from that other varieties English. A total 4,813 constructions drawn International Corpus (ICE)–Nigeria were analyzed and compared with data ICE–Great Britain previous studies. In addition, acceptability was tested a questionnaire study. The results show both distinct stylistic variation use progressives NigE some systematic differences...
The current study provides a phonetic perspective on the questions of whether high degree variability in pitch may be considered characteristic, endonormative feature Trinidadian English (TrinE) at level speech production and contribute to what is popularly described as 'sing-song' prosody. Based read spontaneous data from 111 speakers, we analyze level, range, dynamism TrinE comparison Southern Standard British (BrE) Educated Indian (IndE) investigate sociophonetic variation prosody with...
ABSTRACT This study demonstrates how quantitative characteristics of speaker fluency can be measured in the phonologically annotated and time‐aligned corpora ICE‐Nigeria ICE‐Scotland, which belong to ‘new generation’ ICE corpora. Some files from categories broadcast talk unscripted speeches Nigeria Scotland were phonemically analysed, for each mean length run ( = average number words per utterance) articulation rate phonemes total time) calculated. These results show phonological annotations...
The spread of the progressive from dynamic to stative verbs started in seventeenth century, and slowed down late twentieth century. present study investigates recent change use progressives conversational British English early 1990s 2010s. analysis focuses on a total 100 verb lemmata spoken, demographic sections original new National Corpus , restricted variable context where could potentially occur. Results indicate that overall, have not become more frequent last twenty years, group is...
New language technologies are coming, thanks to the huge and competing private investment fuelling rapid progress; we can either understand foresee their effects, or be taken by surprise spend our time trying catch up. This report scketches out some transformative new that likely fundamentally change use of language. Some these may feel unrealistically futuristic far-fetched, but a central purpose this - wider LITHME network is illustrate mostly just logical development maturation currently...
This study investigates the usage of pragmatic focus particles even and still in Nigerian English (NigE). A comparison ICE-Nigeria ICE-GB showed diverging frequencies both across different registers between two varieties a significantly higher overall NigE. Qualitative analyses revealed that has acquired wide range new meanings NigE, such as emphatic, affirmative, particularising epistemic meanings, can be used to express promises predictions. It is shown these usages mirror equivalents...
Abstract Varieties of English in the Caribbean have been claimed to characteristic pitch patterns. However, there is little empirical research on prosodic aspects region. This paper provides a comparative phonetic analysis several parameters (pitch level, range, dynamism, rate change, variability and tone rate) language data from Dominica, Grenada, Trinidad that comprises read spontaneous speech 243 speakers. The results show wide range high degree pitch, as mentioned previous works, are not...
Focus marking in Indian English (IndE) with adverbs such as only , also and too has been investigated recently by several authors. Based on the British sections of International Corpus English, this article argues that usage IndE differs significantly from (BrE). Also often follows its focus immediately, developed a presentational use, is used negative contexts, corresponding to either . All these innovations are shown be more frequent spoken informal than written formal language,...
Abstract Although English is becoming increasingly entrenched in Western Europe, large‐scale comparative studies of attitudes among the general public to this development are scarce. We investigate over 4,000 Dutch and Germans’ towards based on responses an attitudinal questionnaire. Respondents saw as a useful additional language, but not generally threat their national language. Using k‐means, unsupervised clustering algorithm, we identified two groups per country. with positive English,...
This article offers an analysis of present perfect (PP) use in Nigerian English (NigE), based on the component International Corpus (ICE). First, we analyze variable contexts with Simple Past (PT; determined by temporally specified contexts) as one main competitors PP, and thus assess PP-friendliness NigE contrast to other varieties. We further provide alternative measure test register effects terms normalized relative PP PT frequencies. Our results indicate overall reduced show internal...
Previous research suggests that intonation is a particularly challenging aspect of L2 speech learning.While most focuses on production, we widen the focus and study perception by learners.We investigate whether advanced German learners English have knowledge appropriate patterns in narrative context with different sentence types (e.g.statements, questions).The results tonal pattern selection task indicate (n=20) performed similar to British controls (n=25) for some yes/no-questions), but...
Investigations of the link between perception and production prosody by language learners can inform theories production, especially with regard to Second Language Acquisition (SLA), for implementation in Foreign Teaching (FLT).The L2 speech are often analyzed separately, but two is rarely focus investigation [e.g. 1, 2].In a previous study [3], we read German English (n=20), who performed similarly British (BrE) control group (n=25) some sentence types (e.g.statements, yes/noquestions)...
Recordings for acoustic research should ideally be made in a lossless format.However, some cases pre-existing data may available lossy format such as mp3, prompting the question how far this compromises accuracy of measurements.In order to determine whether is case, we compressed 10 recordings read speech different compression rates (16-320 kbps), and reconverted them wav examine effect on commonly used suprasegmental measures fundamental frequency (f0), pitch range level.Results suggest...