W artykule omówiono problemy związane z identyfikacją mówcy i przedstawiono propozycję procedury ułatwiającej proces identyfikacji w części akustycznej. Koncepcja opiera się na metodach programowania dynamicznego, a w szczególności algorytmu znanego jako DTW (dynamic time warping). Przeprowadzone zostały testy wskazujące na przydatność proponowanej procedury przy próbie ustalenia, które samogłoski oraz formanty pozwalają dostatecznie zróżnicować mówców, dostatecznie indywidualizując każdego z nich.
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The paper discusses issues concerning forensic speaker identification and proposes a procedure simplifying the process of speaker identification in the acoustic scope. The idea revolves around methods of dynamic programming, especially the DTW (dynamic time warping) algorithm described further in the paper. Tests which were carried out demonstrated the usefulness of the suggested procedure when trying to determine which vowels and formants are the best differentiating and characterizing a speaker.
In the field of German word formation, a heated debate has been taking place concerning the problem of defining and classifying the relatively new word forming elements called confixes. In connection with word formation based on foreign material, the problem of analyzing and defining confixes has become particularly important. Many linguists argued that confixes should be distinguished from affixes, while other representatives of the discipline maintain that confixes should be classified as a subgroup of affixes. This article is devoted to the research done by well known German linguists (e.g. Günter D. Schmidt, Wolfgang Fleischer, Elke Donalies, Peter O. Müller, Anja Seiffert, Silke Flies, Angelika Feine, Mechthild Habermann, Sascha Michel) who concentrated on the elements belonging to the bio-, biblio-, anarch-, geo-, ident-, omni-, thermo- type, in order to arrive at a precise definition of the term “confix”. While trying to define and classify the word forming formants called confixes, one can opt for two methods: either taking into account the semantic dimension of the formant or rejecting the semantic approach altogether. Scholars have analyzed the problem of confixes for over twenty years. Elke Donalies [2009b: 60] offers a fairly convincing definition of confixes, but ultimately proposes that the controversial notion be abandoned. However, it is rather unlikely that other researchers will follow her suggestion. The research concerning confixes is still very intensive and the debate has certainly not come to a close, all the more so because in modern German word formation there is a tendency to adopt more and more foreign formants, which convey the meaning more precisely than native word forming elements.
The subject matter of the hereby article is constituted by the word formation of simple adjectives motivated within Polish dialects from the point of view of the monograph. The so far available literature of the subject matter does not elaborate on the synthetic description of dialectal word formation. The study of the adjectives may turn out to be a starting point for the general study. In order to be able to obtain symmetry in parallel to the execution of research of the word formation within the general language, the research of the word formation within dialects should be intensified. It is of significant importance to find the answer to the question about the separateness of the dialectal word formation and it is necessary to provide word formation characteristics to achieve full description of examined dialects.
The first part of the paper proposes a method of studying (or, more precisely, of recognizing) oral vowels, using the so-called relative formant frequencies. First, we describe the traditional method of acoustic study of oral vowels, together with its limitations. Next, we introduce the assumptions of the proposed method where, unlike in the traditional approach, a set of mixed models is used. The comparison, instead of being reduced to establishing whether two sets of vowels match, requires a distance to be calculated between each vowel and each model. The paper introduces the notion of relative formant frequency (denoted f') which was used in the comparisons to minimize the impact of individual articulatory variation on the outcome of the analysis. It was de!ned as the proportion between, on the one hand, the difference between the absolute frequency of the given formant, and its minimal value observed in actual pronunciations, and on the other hand, the difference between the minimal and the maximal frequency of the formant, as observed in pronunciations. In order to establish the f' of model vowels, we used the cardinal vowels pronounced by several British phoneticians (including Daniel Jones).
The second part of the paper consists of a list of relative formant frequencies of model vowels (the method of calculation was discussed in the first part). In this part, a test of the proposed method is designed using several new devices, such as the articulatory difference between vowels (expressed both as an integer and as a percentage), and the percentage distance between the analysed vowels and the particular model. In addition, a few simple statistics such as median, mode and arithmetic mean are used. The test itself consists of recognizing new vowels as pronounced by three different phoneticians. The calculations lead to the conclusion that recognition of vowels carried out with the use of the proposed method produces very accurate results which, most importantly, do not deviate in most instances from the expected values (the difference between the recognized vowel and the vowel described by the speaker did not exceed 40%). In conclusion, this part of the paper describes the advantages and limitations of the proposed method, and suggests possible solutions which may help improve the results in the future.
The paper deals with various word formation processes concerning proper nouns. The research is to prove that formants contain semantic markedness, the value of which (or its social perception) has been changing during the development of language and its onymic systems and that semantic markedness of topoformants is connected with the onymic category.
The paper examines the multifunctionality of the word-formation suffixes used in the formation of Old and Middle Czech deverbal nouns and the possibility of using semantic maps to analyze this multifunctionality. This methodology is first briefly introduced, then a semantic map of six onomasiological categories used in the word-formation patterns is presented (based on extensive data from Old and Middle Czech dictionaries and lexical databases), showing which combinations of functions are possible in a single suffix and which are not. The map is compared with maps found in the literature and several methodological issues are discussed.
The article describes the retro- and perspective of place names in the Podil’s’ke voievodstvo. Studies show that this area belongs to Ukrainian territories settled a very long time ago but because of geographical, social, historical, economic and other reasons this area is represented by the archaic place names of a later period. Derivational stems of place names demonstrate their archaic origins besides their historical ascertainment. The analyzed materials demonstrate that there is a small percentage of place names formed from composite words. This is the evidence that these place names could be lost because of the circumstances: the decline of settlements under the infl uence of anthropogenic factors, the renaming of geographical objects, a change of name because of different language factors (substantivation) and social factors (the change of the formant of the place name when its derivational stem is the same) etc. It is possible that a lot of the archaic place names are not registered in historical sources. In fact, the area of the Podil’s’ke voievodstvo is represented by place names of an archaic type of the 13th century. The amount of place names has increased every century. Some of them have declined but many more place names have been saved upto today.
The aim of the article is to systematize information about the new verbs which are concerning activity in the Internet space and using social media. The research material consists of 48 verb borrowings. It have been classified in terms of word formation (taking into account their foundations and formants). In this way, were distinguished three types of the new verbs, in which the basis are proper names, common names functioning as borrowings and native equivalents of anglicisms. Then on the similarity of dictionary entries describes three verbs borrowings: googlować, trollować and tweetować.
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Celem artykułu jest usystematyzowanie informacji na temat nowych konstrukcji werbalnych w polszczyźnie, które tematycznie są związane z aktywnością w przestrzeni internetowej, w tym z korzystaniem z mediów społecznościowych, i w których wykorzystuje się obce bazy słowotwórcze. Materiał badawczy składa się z 48 zapożyczeń czasownikowych i został sklasyfikowany pod względem słowotwórczym (pod uwagę wzięto podstawy i formanty). W ten sposób wyróżniono trzy typy nowych czasowników: z podstawami w postaci nazw własnych, wyrazów pospolitych i rodzimych odpowiedników anglicyzmów. Następnie na podobieństwo haseł słownikowych opisano trzy wybrane zapożyczenia czasownikowe: googlować, trollować i tweetować.
The article is devoted to analysis of the informal nicknames of Belarusians. The subject of investigation are nicknames, in the semantic structure which reflects the traces of pagan beliefs and Christian world perception of our ancestors structural and semantic organization of similar onyms. Special attention is paid to studies the types of lexical stems that were been derivative base have been defined. In some cases the authors have tried to find out the reasons of occurrence of informal nicknames, to analyse influence linguistic and extralinguistic factors on character of a nomination of the person. The material of the article will be usefull to linguists, and anyone interested in the history of the Belarusian language and culture.
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