Semantics Archives - Essay Quoll

Does your language have a unique lexical item for each kind, or is a phrase used ? Does your language have different single words for ‘older brother’ and ‘younger brother’?

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Assessments

Semantics. Develop one coherent part of the lexicon in detail. Describe as necessary and list 25 terms in your language in phonemic transcription and accompanying translations, with glosses as necessary. For example, you could develop the kinship system based on the type of society you have. In English, we have the term grandfather that applies […]

Describe your speech patterns in different social situations.

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Ambrose

LEVELS OF USAGE AND MEANING You have learned that there are different levels of use that people switch to in different social situations. For this project, you will pay particular attention to the speech patterns of yourself and others. Here is your goal for this assignment: Describe your speech patterns in different social situations Examine […]

Collect 30 minutes of language data from any of the suggested sources in a language other than English.Transcribe 10 minutes of that data in standard orthography:Using your transcribed data identify and discuss briefly the main distinguishing characteristics of your chosen language, focusing particularly on: Phonetics Morphology Syntax Semantics, and Deixis.

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Ambrose

1. Data collection: Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure that you obtain your language data in the safest way possible, we suggest using any of the following sources for your data collection: YouTube, Vimeo, WhatsApp, and Skype. You may also use data from the open access bilingual data bank at https://biling.talkbank.org/browser/ or […]

Review of the challenges that the Arabic Language poses to the text preprocessing NLP tools:Describe the challenges presenting the tools mentioned above and how Arabic can make difficult their analysis referring to the various linguistic levels (Spelling, Script, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Sociolinguistics).

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Ambrose

A review of the challenges that the Arabic Language poses to the text preprocessing NLP tools Description This topic aims to present how the peculiarities of the Arabic script and other linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of the Arabic language can influence the accuracy of the text preprocessing NLP tools (Tokenizers, Part of Speech Taggers, Parsers). […]