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Investigating prosody in spoken Czech: A corpus-linguistic approach
Lukeš, David ; Vondřička, Pavel (advisor) ; Volín, Jan (referee) ; Čech, Radek (referee)
Prosody is a key aspect of spoken language, yet it is currently underrepresented in the spoken Czech corpora on offer at the Czech National Corpus. This is mainly because spoken corpora are very expensive and manual work intensive as it is, and adding more annotation manually is infeasible. The present dissertation thus charts a way to provide an automatic prosodic annotation for the spoken corpora of the CNC using the Prosogram framework, in combination with other tools and various custom postprocessing strategies and heuristics. Acaseisalsomadeinfavoroftheory-light,predominantlydescriptiveapproaches when preparing general-purpose spoken corpus annotations for the consumption of the linguistics research community at large, in a variety of contexts and research tasks. This case is philosophically anchored in a discriminative approach to meaning, which is shown to be the correct, paradox-free alternative to the currently more dominant paradigm of compositionality. Finally, a selection of results based on the Prosogram-generated annotation is presented. A particular focus is given to pitch range, which is characteristically restricted in Czech compared to other languages like English, but other features such as glissandos are also considered. Keywords: Czech, speech, prosody, corpus linguistics,...
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Characteristic of Specific Fantasy Books Characters with Reference to Autosemantics
Volfová, Daniela ; Milička, Jiří (advisor) ; Čech, Radek (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the fresh field of gender linguistics. Within its framework we examine the existence and manifestation of gender in fiction. The paper maps the current state of literature production and ratio of men and women in this field, it describes the development of the concept of gender, recalls the most importat studies of gender linguistics. The obtained bases are compared with the results of our own quantitative study of genderlect and the characteristic of characters with regard to gender in a hundred fantastic stories. Key words characteristics, gender, genderlect, gender linguistics, author, male, female, character, quantitative analysis, semantic category, autosemantics, part of speech
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Characteristic of Specific Fantasy Books Characters with Reference to Autosemantics
Volfová, Daniela ; Milička, Jiří (advisor) ; Čech, Radek (referee)
This thesis sets a goal to quantify the differences based on the author's gender (or at least to try and to describe them better) in a production of a beletry, especially with regard to the differences in the vocabulary they use and the specific words they select. It also focuses on the richness of the lexicon when describing a character. For this the thesis uses a corpus analysis of every author's approach to describe a character and it tries to find patterns in both male and female perspective. All this from a selected antology called "Klenoty české fantasy". In the analysis, we are mainly going to focus on the autosemantics used as subjects, objects, atributes and predicates, that concern the characters.
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