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Theses/dissertations from 2022 2022.
Temporal Fluency in L2 Self-Assessments: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Spanish, Portuguese, and French , Mandy Case
Biblical Hebrew as a Negative Concord Language , J. Bradley Dukes
Revitalizing the Russian of a Heritage Speaker , Aaron Jordan
Analyzing Patterns of Complexity in Pre-University L2 English Writing , Zachary M. Lambert
Prosodic Modeling for Hymn Translation , Michael Abraham Peck
Interpretive Language and Museum Artwork: How Patrons Respond to Depictions of Native American and White Settler Encounters--A Thematic Analysis , Holli D. Rogerson
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Trademarks and Genericide: A Corpus and Experimental Approach to Understanding the Semantic Status of Trademarks , Richard B. Bevan
First and Second Language Use of Case, Aspect, and Tense in Finnish and English , Torin Kelley
Lexical Aspect in-sha Verb Chains in Pastaza Kichwa , Azya Dawn Ladd
Text-to-Speech Systems: Learner Perceptions of its Use as a Tool in the Language Classroom , Joseph Chi Man Mak
The Effects of Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback on the Accuracy and Complexity of Writing Produced by L2 Graduate Students , Lisa Rohm
Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions as Applied to Motivation in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition , Lindsay Michelle Stephenson
Linguistics of Russian Media During the 2016 US Election: A Corpus-Based Study , Devon K. Terry
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Portuguese and Chinese ESL Reading Behaviors Compared: An Eye-Tracking Study , Logan Kyle Blackwell
Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions to Lower Test Anxiety , Asena Cakmakci
The Categorization of Ideophone-Gesture Composites in Quichua Narratives , Maria Graciela Cano
Ranking Aspect-Based Features in Restaurant Reviews , Jacob Ling Hang Chan
Praise in Written Feedback: How L2 Writers Perceive and Value Praise , Karla Coca
Evidence for a Typology of Christ in the Book of Esther , L. Clayton Fausett
Gender Vs. Sex: Defining Meaning in a Modern World through use of Corpora and Semantic Surveys , Mary Elizabeth Garceau
The attributive suffix in Pastaza Kichwa , Barrett Wilson Hamp
An Examination of Motivation Types and Their Influence on English Proficiency for Current High School Students in South Korean , Euiyong Jung
Experienced ESL Teachers' Attitudes Towards Using Phonetic Symbols in Teaching English Pronunciation to Adult ESL Students , Oxana Kodirova
Evidentiality, Epistemic Modality and Mirativity: The Case of Cantonese Utterance Particles Ge3, Laak3, and Lo1 , Ka Fai Law
Application of a Self-Regulation Framework in an ESL Classroom: Effects on IEP International Students , Claudia Mencarelli
Parsing an American Sign Language Corpus with Combinatory Categorial Grammar , Michael Albert Nix
An Exploration of Mental Contrasting and Social Networks of English Language Learners , Adam T. Pinkston
A Corpus-Based Study of the Gender Assignment of Nominal Anglicisms in Brazilian Portuguese , Taryn Marie Skahill
Developing Listening Comprehension in ESL Students at the Intermediate Level by Reading Transcripts While Listening: A Cognitive Load Perspective , Sydney Sohler
The Effect of Language Learning Experience on Motivation and Anxiety of Foreign Language Learning Students , Josie Eileen Thacker
Identifying Language Needs in Community-Based Adult ELLs: Findings from an Ethnography of Four Salvadoran Immigrants in the Western United States , Kathryn Anne Watkins
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Using Eye Tracking to Examine Working Memory and Verbal Feature Processing in Spanish , Erik William Arnold
Self-Regulation in Transition: A Case Study of Three English Language Learners at an IEP , Allison Wallace Baker
"General Conference talk": Style Variation and the Styling of Identity in Latter-day Saint General Conference Oratory , Stephen Thomas Betts
Implementing Mental Contrasting to Improve English Language Learner Social Networks , Hannah Trimble Brown
Comparing Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) Frequency Bands to Leveled Biology and History Texts , Lynne Crandall
A Comparison of Mobile and Computer Receptive Language ESL Tests , Aislin Pickett Davis
Yea, Yea, Nay, Nay: Uses of the Archaic, Biblical Yea in the Book of Mormon , Michael Edward De Martini
L1 and L2 Reading Behaviors by Proficiency Level: An English-Portuguese Eye-Tracking Study , Larissa Grahl
Immediate Repeated Reading has Positive Effects on Reading Fluency for English Language Learners: An Eye-tracking Study , Jennifer Hemmert Hansen
Perceptions of Malaysian English Teachers Regarding the Importation of Expatriate Native and Nonnative English-speaking Teachers , Syringa Joanah Judd
Sociocultural Identification with the United States and English Pronunciation Comprehensibility and Accent Among International ESL Students , Christinah Paige Mulder
The Effects of Repeated Reading on the Fluency of Intermediate-Level English-as-a-Second-Language Learners: An Eye-Tracking Study , Krista Carlene Rich
Verb Usage in Egyptian Movies, Serials, and Blogs: A Case for Register Variation , Michael G. White
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Factors Influencing ESL Students' Selection of Intensive English Programs in the Western United States , Katie Briana Blanco
Pun Strategies Across Joke Schemata: A Corpus-Based Study , Robert Nishan Crapo
ESL Students' Reading Behaviors on Multiple-Choice Items at Differing Proficiency Levels: An Eye-Tracking Study , Juan M. Escalante Talavera
Backward Transfer of Apology Strategies from Japanese to English: Do English L1 Speakers Use Japanese-Style Apologies When Speaking English? , Candice April Flowers
Cultural Differences in Russian and English Magazine Advertising: A Pragmatic Approach , Emily Kay Furner
An Analysis of Rehearsed Speech Characteristics on the Oral Proficiency Interview—Computer (OPIc) , Gwyneth Elaine Gates
Predicting Speaking, Listening, and Reading Proficiency Gains During Study Abroad Using Social Network Metrics , Timothy James Hall
Navigating a New Culture: Analyzing Variables that Influence Intensive English Program Students' Cultural Adjustment Process , Sherie Lyn Kwok
Second Language Semantic Retrieval in the Bilingual Mind: The Case of Korean-English Expert Bilinguals , Janice Si-Man Lam
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Korean Heritage-Speaking Interpreter , Yoonjoo Lee
Reading Idioms: A Comparative Eye-Tracking Study of Native English Speakers and Native Korean Speakers , Sarah Lynne Miner
Applying the Developmental Path of English Negation to the Automated Scoring of Learner Essays , Allen Travis Moore
Performance Self-Appraisal Calibration of ESL Students on a Proficiency Reading Test , Jodi Mikolajcik Petersen
Switch-Reference in Pastaza Kichwa , Alexander Harrison Rice
The Effects of Metacognitive Listening Strategy Instruction on ESL Learners' Listening Motivation , Corbin Kalanikiakahi Rivera
The Effects of Teacher Background on How Teachers Assess Native-Like and Nonnative-Like Grammar Errors: An Eye-Tracking Study , Wesley Makoto Schramm
Rubric Rating with MFRM vs. Randomly Distributed Comparative Judgment: A Comparison of Two Approaches to Second-Language Writing Assessment , Maureen Estelle Sims
Investigating the Perception of Identity Shift in Trilingual Speakers: A Case Study , Elena Vasilachi
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Preparing Non-Native English Speakers for the Mathematical Vocabulary in the GRE and GMAT , Irina Mikhailovna Baskova
Eye Behavior While Reading Words of Sanskrit and Urdu Origin in Hindi , Tahira Carroll
An Acoustical Analysis of the American English /l, r/ Contrast as Produced by Adult Japanese Learners of English Incorporating Word Position and Task Type , Braden Paul Chase
The Rhetoric Revision Log: A Second Study on a Feedback Tool for ESL Student Writing , Natalie Marie Cole
Quizlet Flashcards for the First 500 Words of the Academic Vocabulary List , Emily R. Crandell
The Impact of Changing TOEFL Cut-Scores on University Admissions , Laura Michelle Decker
A Latent Class Analysis of American English Dialects , Stephanie Nicole Hedges
Comparing the AWL and AVL in Textbooks from an Intensive English Program , Michelle Morgan Hernandez
Faculty and EAL Student Perceptions of Writing Purposes and Challenges in the Business Major , Amy Mae Johnson
Multilingual Trends in Five London Boroughs: A Linguistic Landscape Approach , Shayla Ann Johnson
Nature or Nurture in English Academic Writing: Korean and American Rhetorical Patterns , Sunok Kim
Differences in the Motivations of Chinese Learners of English in Different (Foreign or Second Language) Contexts , Rui Li
Managing Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback: Perceptions of Experienced Teachers , Rachel A. Messenger
Spanish Heritage Bilingual Perception of English-Specific Vowel Contrasts , John B. Nielsen
Taking the "Foreign" Out of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale , Jared Benjamin Sell
Creole Genesis and Universality: Case, Word Order, and Agreement , Gerald Taylor Snow
Idioms or Open Choice? A Corpus Based Analysis , Kaitlyn Alayne VanWagoner
Applying Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis to an Unrestricted Corpus: A Case Study in Indonesian and Malay Newspapers , Sara LuAnne White
Investigating the effects of Rater's Second Language Learning Background and Familiarity with Test-Taker's First Language on Speaking Test Scores , Ksenia Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
The Influence of Online English Language Instruction on ESL Learners' Fluency Development , Rebecca Aaron
The Effect of Prompt Accent on Elicited Imitation Assessments in English as a Second Language , Jacob Garlin Barrows
A Framework for Evaluating Recommender Systems , Michael Gabriel Bean
Program and Classroom Factors Affecting Attendance Patterns For Hispanic Participants In Adult ESL Education , Steven J. Carter
A Longitudinal Analysis of Adult ESL Speakers' Oral Fluency Gains , Kostiantyn Fesenko
Rethinking Vocabulary Size Tests: Frequency Versus Item Difficulty , Brett James Hashimoto
The Onomatopoeic Ideophone-Gesture Relationship in Pastaza Quichua , Sarah Ann Hatton
A Hybrid Approach to Cross-Linguistic Tokenization: Morphology with Statistics , Logan R. Kearsley
Getting All the Ducks in a Row: Towards a Method for the Consolidation of English Idioms , Ethan Michael Lynn
Expecting Excellence: Student and Teacher Attitudes Towards Choosing to Speak English in an IEP , Alhyaba Encinas Moore
Lexical Trends in Young Adult Literature: A Corpus-Based Approach , Kyra McKinzie Nelson
A Corpus-Based Comparison of the Academic Word List and the Academic Vocabulary List , Jacob Andrew Newman
A Self-Regulated Learning Inventory Based on a Six-Dimensional Model of SRL , Christopher Nuttall
The Effectiveness of Using Written Feedback to Improve Adult ESL Learners' Spontaneous Pronunciation of English Suprasegmentals , Chirstin Stephens
Pragmatic Quotation Use in Online Yelp Reviews and its Connection to Author Sentiment , Mary Elisabeth Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Conditional Sentences in Egyptian Colloquial and Modern Standard Arabic: A Corpus Study , Randell S. Bentley
A Corpus-Based Analysis of Russian Word Order Patterns , Stephanie Kay Billings
English to ASL Gloss Machine Translation , Mary Elizabeth Bonham
The Development of an ESP Vocabulary Study Guidefor the Utah State Driver Handbook , Kirsten M. Brown
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Dissertations from 2023 2023
Long(er) Object Movement in Turkish , Duygu Göksu, Linguistics
'You' Will Always Have 'Me': A Compositional Theory of Person , Kaden T. Holladay, Linguistics
Associative Plurals , Sherry Hucklebridge, Linguistics
Counterdirectionality in the Grammar: Reversals and Restitutions , Jyoti Iyer, Linguistics
The Online Processing of Even's Likelihood Presupposition , Erika Mayer, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2022 2022
On the Semantics of Verbal and Nominal Tense in Mvskoke (Creek) , Kimberly C. Johnson, Linguistics
Restrictive Tier Induction , Seoyoung Kim, Linguistics
DIRECTIONAL HARMONIC SERIALISM , Andrew Lamont, Linguistics
TENSE IN CONDITIONALS: INS AND OUTS , Zahra Mirrazi, Linguistics
Phonotactic Learning with Distributional Representations , Max A. Nelson, Linguistics
The Linearization of V(P)-doubling Constructions , Rong Yin, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2021 2021
Shifting the Perspectival Landscape: Methods for Encoding, Identifying, and Selecting Perspectives , Carolyn Jane Anderson, Linguistics
There and Gone Again: Syntactic Structure In Memory , Caroline Andrews, Linguistics
The Event Structure of Attitudes , Deniz Özyıldız, Linguistics
LEARNING PHONOLOGY WITH SEQUENCE-TO-SEQUENCE NEURAL NETWORKS , Brandon Prickett, Linguistics
The Syntactic and Semantic Atoms of the Spray/load Alternation , Michael A. Wilson, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2020 2020
Representing Context: Presupposition Triggers and Focus-sensitivity , Alexander Goebel, Linguistics
Person-based Prominence in Ojibwe , Christopher Hammerly, Linguistics
Emergent Typological Effects of Agent-Based Learning Models in Maximum Entropy Grammar , Coral Hughto, Linguistics
TALKING ABOUT HER(SELF): AMBIGUITY AVOIDANCE AND PRINCIPLE B. A Theoretical and Psycholinguistic Investigation of Romanian Pronouns , Rudmila-Rodica Ivan, Linguistics
THE EMPTINESS OF THE PRESENT: FRONTING CONSTRUCTIONS AS A WINDOW TO THE SEMANTICS OF TENSE , Petr Kusliy, Linguistics
Optimal Linearization: Prosodic displacement in Khoekhoegowab and Beyond , Leland Kusmer, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2019 2019
Computing Agreement in a Mixed System , Sakshi Bhatia, Linguistics
Binding and Coreference in Vietnamese , Thuy Bui, Linguistics
Divorce Licensing: Separate Criteria for Predicate and Clausal Ellipsis , Tracy Conner, Linguistics
Effects of Phonological Contrast on Within-Category Phonetic Variation , Ivy Hauser, Linguistics
Phrasal and Clausal Exceptive-Additive Constructions Crosslinguistically , Ekaterina Vostrikova, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2018 2018
Typology of bizarre ellipsis varieties , David Erschler, Linguistics
The Head-Quarters of Mandarin Arguments , Hsin-Lun Huang, Linguistics
ATTITUDES DE SE AND LOGOPHORICITY , Yangsook Park, Linguistics
Responding to questions and assertions: embedded Polar Response Particles, ellipsis, and contrast , Jeremy Pasquereau, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2017 2017
The Form and Acquisition of Free Relatives , Michael Clauss, Linguistics
Amount Relatives Redux , Jon Ander Mendia, Linguistics
Movement and the Semantic Type of Traces , Ethan Poole, Linguistics
Preferential early attribution in segmental parsing , Amanda Rysling, Linguistics
When errors aren't: How comprehenders selectively violate Binding Theory , Shayne Sloggett, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2016 2016
Building Meaning in Navajo , Elizabeth A. Bogal-Allbritten, Linguistics
Probes and their Horizons , Stefan Keine, Linguistics
Anaphora, Inversion, and Focus , Nicholas J. LaCara, Linguistics
The Representation of Probabilistic Phonological Patterns: Neurological, Behavioral, and Computational Evidence from the English Stress System , Claire Moore-Cantwell, Linguistics
Extending Hidden Structure Learning: Features, Opacity, and Exceptions , Aleksei I. Nazarov, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2015 2015
Experiencing in Japanese: The Experiencer Restriction across Clausal Types , Masashi Hashimoto, Linguistics
Rightward Movement: A Study in Locality , Jason Overfelt, Linguistics
Investigating Properties of Phonotactic Knowledge Through Web-Based Experimentation , Presley Pizzo, Linguistics
Phonologically Conditioned Allomorphy and UR Constraints , Brian W. Smith, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2014 2014
Contrastive Topic: Meanings and Realizations , Noah Constant, Linguistics
The Grammar of Individuation and Counting , Suzi Lima, Linguistics
Comprehending Each Other: Weak Reciprocity and Processing , Helen Majewski, Linguistics
Computational Modeling of Learning Biases in Stress Typology , Robert D. Staubs, Linguistics
Fragments and Clausal Ellipsis , Andrew Weir, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2013 2013
Gapping in Farsi: A Crosslinguistic Investigation , Annahita Farudi, Linguistics
The Parsing and Interpretation of Comparatives: More than Meets the Eye , Margaret Ann Grant, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2012 2012
Syntax-Prosody Interactions in Irish , Emily Elfner, Linguistics
Processing Perspectives , Jesse Aron Harris, Linguistics
Exhaustivity In Questions & Clefts; And The Quantifier Connection: A Study In German And English , Tanja Heizmann, Linguistics
Phonological And Phonetic Biases In Speech Perception , Michael Parrish Key, Linguistics
The Role of Contextual Restriction in Reference-Tracking , Andrew Robert McKenzie, Linguistics
Stress in Harmonic Serialism , Kathryn Ringler Pruitt, Linguistics
Roots of Modality , Aynat Rubinstein, Linguistics
Goals, Big and Small , Martin Walkow, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2011 2011
Quantification, misc. , Jan Anderssen, Linguistics
Anchoring Pragmatics In Syntax And Semantics , Maria Biezma, Linguistics
Constraining Interpretation: Sentence Final Particles in Japanese , Christopher M. Davis, Linguistics
Cumulative constraint interaction in phonological acquisition and typology , Karen Christine Jesney
Cumulative Constraint Interaction In Phonological Acquisition And Typology , Karen Christine Jesney, Linguistics
Competing Triggers: Transparency And Opacity In Vowel Harmony , Wendell A Kimper, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2010 2010
Topics In The Nez Perce Verb , Amy Rose Deal, Linguistics
Concealed Questions. In Search Of Answers , Ilaria Frana, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2009 2009
Phonological Trends In The Lexicon: The Role Of Constraints , Michael Becker, Linguistics
Natural Selection and the Syntax of Clausal Complementation , Keir Moulton, Linguistics
Two Types of Definites in Natural Language , Florian Schwarz, Linguistics
The Role Of Lexical Contrast In The Perception Of Intonational Prominence In Japanese , Takahito Shinya, Linguistics
The Emergence of DP in the Partitive Structure , Helen Stickney, Linguistics
Optionality and Variability: Syntactic Licensing Meets Morphological Spell-Out , Cherlon Ussery, Linguistics
Word, Phrase, And Clitic Prosody In Bosnian, Serbian, And Croatian , Adam Werle, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2008 2008
Optimal interleaving: Serial phonology -morphology interaction in a constraint-based model , Matthew Adam Wolf
Dissertations from 2007 2007
The sources of phonological markedness , Kathryn Gilbert Flack
The emergence of phonetic naturalness , Shigeto Kawahara
Biases and stages in phonological acquisition , Anne-Michelle Tessier
Acquisition of scalar implicatures , Anna VerBuk
Dissertations from 2006 2006
Disjunction in alternative semantics , Luis Alonso-Ovalle
Acquisition of a natural versus an unnatural stress system , Angela C Carpenter
Asymmetries in the acquisition of consonant clusters , Della Chambless
Telicity and the syntax-semantics of the *object and *subject , Miren J Hodgson
Variables in Natural Language , Meredith Landman, Linguistics
Dissertations from 2005 2005
On the Accessiblity of Possible Worlds: The Role of Tense and Aspect , Ana Cristina Arregui
Perception of foreignness , Ben Gelbart
Prosody and LF interpretation: Processing Japanese wh -questions , Masako Hirotani
The grammar of choice , Paula Menendez-Benito
Mediated *modification: Functional structure and the interpretation of modifier position , Marcin Morzycki
Dissertations from 2004 2004
What it means to be a loser: Non -optimal candidates in optimality theory , Andries W Coetzee
Scope: The View from Indefinites , Ji-Yung Kim
Event-structure and the internally headed relative clause construction in Korean and Japanese , Min-Joo Kim
Spain or bust? Assessment and student perceptions of out-of-class contact and oral proficiency in a study abroad context , Vija Glazer Mendelson
On the articulation of aspectual meaning in African -American English , Jules Michael Eugene Terry
Dissertations from 2003 2003
Deriving Economy: Syncope in Optimality Theory , Maria Gouskova
Gestures and segments: Vowel intrusion as overlap , Nancy Elizabeth Hall
The development of phonological categories in children's perception of final voicing in dialects of English , Caroline Jones
Argument structure and the lexicon /syntax interface , Eva Juarros
Contrast preservation in phonological mappings , Anna Lubowicz
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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.
Critical Analysis of Anti-Asian Hate in the News , Benardo Douglas Relampagos
A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of NASA's Instagram Account , Danica Lynn Tomber
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
A Computer Science Academic Vocabulary List , David Roesler
Variation in Female and Male Dialogue in Buffy the Vampire Slayer : A Multi-dimensional Analysis , Amber Morgan Sanchez
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
Differences in Syntactic Complexity in the Writing of EL1 and ELL Civil Engineering Students , Santiago Gustin
A Mixed Methods Analysis of Corpus Data from Reddit Discussions of "Gay Voice" , Sara Elizabeth Mulliner
Relationship Between Empathy and Language Proficiency in Adult Language Learners , Mika Sakai
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
College Student Rankings of Multiple Speakers in a Public Speaking Context: a Language Attitudes Study on Japanese-accented English with a World Englishes Perspective , John James Ahlbrecht
Grammatical Errors by Arabic ESL Students: an Investigation of L1 Transfer through Error Analysis , Aisha Saud Alasfour
Foreign Language Anxiety, Sexuality, and Gender: Lived Experiences of Four LGBTQ+ Students , James Donald Mitchell
Verb Stem Alternation in Vaiphei , Jesse Prichard
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Teacher and Student Perceptions of World Englishes (WE) Pronunciations in two US Settings , Marie Arrieta
Escalating Language at Traffic Stops: Two Case Studies , Jamalieh Haley
Lexical Bundles in Applied Linguistics and Literature Writing: a Comparison of Intermediate English Learners and Professionals , Kathryn Marie Johnston
Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Opinions from Spanish-Speaking English Learners from Mexico, Central America, and South America , Cailey Catherine Moe
An Analytical System for Determining Disciplinary Vocabulary for Data-Driven Learning: an Example from Civil Engineering , Philippa Jean Otto
Loanwords in Context: Lexical Borrowing from English to Japanese and its Effects on Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition , Andrew Michael Sowers
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
The Effect of Extended Instruction on Passive Voice, Reduced Relative Clauses, and Modal Would in the Academic Writing of Advanced English Language Learners , Audrey Bailey
Identity Construction and Language Use by Immigrant Women in a Microenterprise Development Program , Linda Eve Bonder
"That's the test?" Washback Effects of an Alternative Assessment in a Culturally Heterogeneous EAP University Class , Abigail Bennett Carrigan
Wiki-based Collaborative Creative Writing in the ESL Classroom , Rima Elabdali
A Study of the Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Interpretability of Standard Marine Communication Phrases as Perceived by Chinese Mariners , Lillian Christine Holland
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
Empowering All Who Teach: A Portrait of Two Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in a Globalized 21st Century , Rosa Dene David
A Corpus Based Analysis of Noun Modification in Empirical Research Articles in Applied Linguistics , Jo-Anne Hutter
Sound Effects: Age, Gender, and Sound Symbolism in American English , Timothy Allen Krause
Perspectives on the College Readiness and Outcome Achievement of Former Intensive English Language Program (IELP) Students , Meghan Oswalt
The Cognitive Development of Expertise in an ESL Teacher: A Case Study , Lyndsey Roos
Identity and Investment in the Community ESL Classroom , Jennifer Marie Sacklin
Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
Code Switching Between Tamazight and Arabic in the First Libyan Berber News Broadcast: An Application of Myers-Scotton's MLF and 4M Models , Ashour S. Abdulaziz
Self-Efficacy in Low-Level English Language Learners , Laura F. Blumenthal
The Impact of Wiki-based Collaborative Writing on English L2 Learners' Individual Writing Development , Gina Christina Caruso
Latino Men Managing HIV: An Appraisal Analysis of Intersubjective Relations in the Discourse of Five Research Interviews , Will Caston
Opportunities for Incidental Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary from Teacher Speech in an English for Academic Purposes Classroom , Eric Dean Dodson
Emerging Lexical Organization from Intentional Vocabulary Learning , Adam Jones
Effects of the First Language on Japanese ESL Learners' Answers to Negative Questions , Kosuke Kanda
"Had sh'er haute gamme, high technology": An Application of the MLF and 4-M Models to French-Arabic Codeswitching in Algerian Hip Hop , Samuel Nickilaus McLain-Jespersen
Is Self-Sufficiency Really Sufficient? A Critical Analysis of Federal Refugee Resettlement Policy and Local Attendant English Language Training in Portland, Oregon , Domminick McParland
Explorations into the Psycholinguistic Validity of Extended Collocations , J. Arianna Morgan
A Comparison of Linguistic Features in the Academic Writing of Advanced English Language Learner and English First Language University Students , Margo K. Russell
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
The First Year: Development of Preservice Teacher Beliefs About Teaching and Learning During Year One of an MA TESOL Program , Emily Spady Addiego
L1 Influence on L2 Intonation in Russian Speakers of English , Christiane Fleur Crosby
English Loan Words in Japanese: Exploring Comprehension and Register , Naoko Horikawa
The Role of Expectations on Nonnative English Speaking Students' Wrtiting , Sara Marie Van Dan Acker
Hypothetical Would-Clauses in Korean EFL Textbooks: An Analysis Based on a Corpus Study and Focus on Form Approach , Soyung Yoo
Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Negative Transfer in the Writing of Proficient Students of Russian: A Comparison of Heritage Language Learners and Second Language Learners , Daria Aleeva
Informal Learning Choices of Japanese ESL Students in the United States , Brent Harrison Amburgey
Iktomi: A Character Traits Analysis of a Dakota Culture Myth , Marianne Sue Kastner
Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
Motivation in Late Learners of Japanese: Self-Determination Theory, Attitudes and Pronunciation , Shannon Guinn-Collins
Foreign Language Students' Beliefs about Homestays , Sara Racheal Juveland
Teaching Intonation Patterns through Reading Aloud , Micah William Park
Disordered Thought, Disordered Language: A corpus-based description of the speech of individuals undergoing treatment for schizophrenia , Lucas Carl Steuber
Emotion Language and Emotion Narratives of Turkish-English Late Bilinguals , Melike Yücel Koç
Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
A Library and its Community: Exploring Perceptions of Collaboration , Phoebe Vincenza Daurio
A Structural and Functional Analysis of Codeswitching in Mi Vida Gitana 'My Gypsy Life,' a Bilingual Play , Gustavo Javier Fernandez
Writing Chinuk Wawa: A Materials Development Case Study , Sarah A. Braun Hamilton
Teacher Evaluation of Item Formats for an English Language Proficiency Assessment , Jose Luis Perea-Hernandez
Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
Building Community and Bridging Cultures: the Role of Volunteer Tutors in Oregon’s Latino Serving Community-Based Organizations , Troy Vaughn Hickman
Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007
Beyond the Classroom Walls: a Study of Out-Of-Class English Use by Adult Community College ESL Students , Tracey Louise Knight
Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004
A Dialect Study of Oregon NORMs , Lisa Wittenberg Hillyard
Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003
The Acquisition of a Stage Dialect , Nathaniel George Halloran
Self-perceptions of non-native English speaking teachers of English as a second language , Kathryn Ann Long
The Development of Language Choice in a German Immersion School , Miranda Kussmaul Novash
Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002
Writing in the Contact Zone: Three Portraits of Reflexivity and Transformation , Laurene L. Christensen
A Linguistic Evaluation of the Somali Women's Self Sufficiency Project , Ann Marie Kasper
Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001
Attitudes at the Bank : A Survey of Reactions to Different Varieties of English , Sean Wilcox
Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000
A Comparison of the Child Directed Speech of Traditional Dads With That of Stay-At-Home Dads , Judith Nancarrow Barr
Error Correction Preferences of Latino ESL Students , John Burrell
The Relationship Between Chinese Character Recognition Strategies and the Success of Character Memorization for Students of Mandarin Chinese , Hui-yen Emmy Chen
Portland dialect study: the story of /æ/ in Portland , Jeffrey C. Conn
On Communicative Competence : Its Nature and Origin , Mary Lou Emerson
The Influence of Cultural Backgrounds on the Interpretations of Literature Texts Used in the ESL Classroom , Barbara Jostrom Gates
Chinese Numeratives and the Mass/Count Distinction , David Goodman
Learning, Motivation, and Self : A Diary Study of an ESL Teacher’s Year in a Japanese Language Classroom , Laura Ruth Hawks
Portland Dialect Study - High Rising Terminal Contours (HRTs) in Portland Speech , Rebecca A. Wolff
Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998
The Bolinger Principle and Teaching the Gerunds and Infinitives , Anna Maria Baratta-Zborowski
Training for Volunteer Teachers in Church-Affiliated English Language Mission Programs , Janet Noreen Blackwood
Šawaš ılıˀ--šawaš wawa: A Participant Observation Case Study of Language Planning by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon , Gregry Michael Davis
Phonological Processing of Japanese Kanji Characters , Randy L. Evans
Academic ESL Reading : Semantic Mapping and Lexical Acquisition , Jeffrey Darin Maggard
The Representation of Gender in Current ESL Reading Materials , Kyunghee Ma
Perception of English Passives by Japanese ESL Learners : Do Adversity Passives in L1 Transfer? , Koichi Sawasaki
Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997
Non-Literate Students in Adult Beginning English as a Second Language Classrooms - A Case Study , Sandra Lynn Banke
A Case Study of Twelve Japanese ESL Students' Use of Interaction Modifications , Darin Dooley
The Home-School Connection: Parental Influences on a Child's ESL Acquisition , Catharine Jauhiainen
A Comparison of Two Second Language Acquisition Models for Culturally and Linguistically Different Students , Karen Dorothy Kuhn
ESL CD-ROM Principles and their Application: A Software Evaluation , Stephanie Burgi LaMonica
Developing a Language in Education Policy for Post-apartheid South Africa: A Case Study , Nancy Murray
Video Self-Monitoring as an Alternative to Traditional Methods of Pronunciation Instruction , P. C. Noble
Analysis of Rhetorical Organization and Style Patterns in Korean and American Business Fax Letters of Complaint in English , Mi Young Park
The Importance of Time for Processing in Second Language Comprehension and Acquisition , Jennifer Lee Watson
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The Constraints of a Typological Implicational Universal for Interrogatives on Second Language Acquisition , Dee Anne Bess
An Assessment of the Needs of International Students for Student Services at Southern Oregon State College , Molly K. Emmons
The relationship between a pre-departure training program and its participants' intercultural communication competence , Daniel Timothy Ferguson
An Exploratory Evaluation of Language and Culture Contact by Japanese Sojourners in a Short-term US Academic Program , Elizabeth Anna Hartley
Correction of Classroom Oral Errors: Preferences among University Students of English in Japan , Akemi Katayama
An Analysis of Japanese Learners' Comprehension of Intonation in English , Misako Okubo
An Evaluation of English Spoken Fluency of Thai Graduate Students in the United States , Sugunya Ruangjaroon
A Cross-cultural Study of the Speech Act of Refusing in English and German , Charla Margaret Teufel
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An Examination of the English Vocabulary Knowledge of Adult English-for-Academic-Purposes Students: Correlation with English Second-Language Proficiency and the Validity of Yes/No Vocabulary Tests , Robert Scott Fetter
English in the Workplace: Case Study of a Pilot Program , Kim Roth Franklin
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- Automatic Analysis of Epistemic Stance-Taking in Academic English Writing: A Systemic Functional Approach Eguchi, Masaki ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-10 ) Existing linguistic textual measures that investigate features of academic writing often focus on lexis, syntax, and cohesion, despite writing skills being considered more complex and multifaceted (e.g., Sparks et al., ...
- Empirical Foundations of Socio-Indexical Structure: Inquiries in Corpus Sociophonetics and Perceptual Learning Gunter, Kaylynn ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) Speech is highly variable and systematic, governed by the internal linguistic system and socio-indexical factors. The systematic relationship of socio-indexical factors and variable phonetic forms, referred to here as ...
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- Case and Gender Loss in Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund Languages Alhazmi, Mofareh ( University of Oregon , 2023-03-24 ) My dissertation investigates the loss of morphological case and grammatical gender in the Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund languages. Crucial language-internal and language-external motivations are considered. To ...
- Influences on Expert Intelligibility Judgments of School-age Children's Speech Potratz, Jill ( University of Oregon , 2023-03-24 ) Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) make impressionistic intelligibility judgments as part of an evaluation of children for speech sound disorders. Despite the lack of formalization, it is an important measure of choice ...
- Factors that affect generalization of adaptation Lee, Dae-yong ( University of Oregon , 2023-03-24 ) As there is a growing population of non-native speakers worldwide, facilitating communication involving native and non-native speakers has become increasingly important. While one way to help communication involving native ...
- The Chepang language: Phonology, Nominal and Verbal morphology - synchrony and diachrony of the varieties of the Lothar and Manahari Rivers Pons, Marie-Caroline ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-26 ) N/A
- L2 Motivation in Language Revitalization Practice Taylor-Adams, Allison ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-26 ) This dissertation investigates the initial and ongoing motivations of language revitalization practitioners. This study extends our understandings of language revitalization from the programmatic and sociological levels ...
- Indigenous Methodologies in Linguistics: A Case Study of Nuu-wee-ya' Language Revitalization Hall, Jaeci ( University of Oregon , 2021-11-23 ) Doing linguistic research for the purpose of language revitalization, academic inclusion, and social justice fundamentally changes the perspective, questions, and goals of the work. Framing this research in a traditional ...
- Factors affecting the incidental formation of novel suprasegmental categories Wright, Jonathan ( University of Oregon , 2021-11-23 ) Humans constantly use their senses to categorize stimuli in their environment. They develop categories for stimuli when they are young and constantly add to existing categories and learn novel categories throughout their ...
- Production and Perception of Native and Non-native Speech Enhancements Kato, Misaki ( University of Oregon , 2020-12-08 ) One important factor that contributes to successful speech communication is an individual’s ability to speak more clearly when their listeners do not understand their speech. Though native talkers are able to implement ...
- Contingency, Contiguity, and Capacity: On the Meaning of the Instrumental Case Marking in Copular Predicative Constructions in Russian Tretiak, Valeriia ( University of Oregon , 2020-12-08 ) This study investigates the use of the Instrumental case marking in copular predicative constructions in Russian. The study endeavors to explain why the case marking whose prototypical meaning cross-linguistically is that ...
- Towards Modelling Pausing Patterns in Adult Narrative Speech Kallay, Jeffrey ( University of Oregon , 2020-12-08 ) The study that is the focus of this dissertation had 2 primary goals: 1) quantify systematic physiological, linguistic and cognitive effects on pausing in narrative speech; 2) formalize a preliminary model of pausing ...
- Teaching Papa to Cha-Cha: How Change Magnitude, Temporal Contiguity, and Task Affect Alternation Learning Smolek, Amy ( University of Oregon , 2020-02-27 ) In this dissertation, we investigate how speakers produce wordforms they may not have heard before. Paradigm Uniformity (PU) is the cross-linguistic bias against stem changes, particularly large changes. We propose the ...
- Verbal Morphology of Amdo Tibetan Tribur, Zoe ( University of Oregon , 2020-02-27 ) This dissertation describes the functional and structural properties of the Amdo Tibetan verb system. Amdo Tibetan (Tibetic, Trans-Himalayan) is a verb-final language, characterized by an elaborate system of post-verbal ...
- Investigating differential case marking in Sümi, a language of Nagaland, using language documentation and experimental methods Teo, Amos ( University of Oregon , 2020-02-27 ) One goal in linguistics is to model how speakers use natural language to convey different kinds of information. In theories of grammar, two kinds of information: “who is doing what (and to whom)”, the technical term for ...
- Nominalization and Predication in Ut-Ma'in Paterson, Rebecca ( University of Oregon , 2020-02-27 ) U̠t-Ma'in is a Kainji, East Benue-Congo language, spoken in northwestern Nigeria (ISO 639-3 code [gel]). This study contributes to our understanding of Benue-Congo languages by offering the first indepth look at nominalization ...
- Prosodic Prominence Perception, Regional Background, Ethnicity and Experience: Naive Perception of African American English and European American English McLarty, Jason ( University of Oregon , 2020-02-27 ) Although much work has investigated various aspects of African American English (AAE), prosodic features of AAE have remained relatively underexamined (e.g. McLarty 2018; Thomas 2015). Studies have, however, identified ...
- A Historical Reconstruction of the Koman Language Family Otero, Manuel ( University of Oregon , 2020-02-27 ) This dissertation is a historical-comparative reconstruction of the Koman family, a small group of languages spoken in what now constitutes the borderlands of Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan. Koman is comprised five living ...
- Accessibility, Language Production, and Language Change Harmon, Zara ( University of Oregon , 2019-09-18 ) This dissertation explores the effects of frequency on the learning and use of linguistic constructions. The work examines the influence of frequency on form choice in production and meaning inference in comprehension and ...
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Crippen, James A. (PhD) The syntax in Tlingit verbs
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Keough, Megan (PhD) The role of prior experience in the integration of aerotactile speech information
Ozburn, Avery (PhD) A target-oriented approach to neutrality in vowel harmony
Yuan, Yifang (MA) Response markers in Mandarin Chinese conversation: A corpus-based case study of shi, dui, xing, hao and the variants of shi
2018 Alumni
Black, Alexis K. (PhD) How perception constrains statistical learning across development
Chen, Sihwei (PhD) Finding semantic building blocks: Temporal and modal interpretation in Atayal
Lam, Wai Man (PhD) Perception of lexical tones by homeland and heritage speakers of Cantonese
de Oliveira Andreotti, Bruno Luis (MA) Interpreting derived stative predicates: Evidence from ʔayʔaǰuθəm
2017 Alumni
Burge, Heather (MA) Prospective aspect in Tlingit
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Thoma, Sonja Christine (PhD) Discourse particles and the syntax of discourse: Evidence from Miesbach Bavarian
2016 Alumni
Allen, Blake H. (PhD) Bayesian models of learning and generating inflectional morphology
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Noguchi, Masaki (PhD) Acquisition of allophony from speech input by adult learners
2015 Alumni
Abel, Jennifer Colleen (PhD) The effect of task difficulty on speech convergence
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Chiu, Cheng-hao (PhD)
Startling auditory stimulus as a window into speech motor planning
Gutiérrez, Analía (PhD)
Segmental and prosodic complexity in Nivaĉle: laryngeals, laterals, and metathesis
Liu, Tianhan (MA)
Modal concord in Mandarin
Louie, Meagan (PhD)
The temporal semantics of actions and circumstance in Blackfoot
McAuliffe, Michael (PhD)
Attention and salience in lexically-guided perceptual learning
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Topics in Siamou tense and aspect
2014 Alumni
D’Aquisto, Joseph Paul (MA)
Visual discrimination of French and English in inter-speech and speech-ready position
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The online linguistic database : software for linguistic fieldwork
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Vocal effort and within-speaker coordination in speech production : effects on postural control
Sherer, Laura (MA)
Nominalization and voice in Kwak’wala
Vincent, Audra (MA)
Coeur d’Alene Aspect
2013 Alumni
Bliss, Heather (PhD)
The Blackfoot configurationality conspiracy: parallels and differences in clausal and nominal structures
Greene, Hannah (MA)
Verb classes in Kwaḱwala
Lyon, John (PhD)
Predication and equation in Okanagan Salish: the syntax and semantics of determiner phrases
Menzies, Stacey (MA)
Nsyilxcen modality: semantic analysis of epistemic modality
Schellenberg, Murray Henry (PhD)
The realization of tone in singing in Cantonese and Mandarin
Yamane, Noriko (PhD)
‘Placeless’ consonants in Japanese: an ultrasound investigation
2012 Alumni
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Speech imagery as corollary discharge
Szakay, Anita (PhD)
The effect of dialect on bilingual lexical processing and representation
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Syntactic nominalization in Halkomelem Salish
Waldie, Ryan James (PhD)
Evidentiality in Nuu-chah-nulth
2011 Alumni
Arkoh, Ruby Becky (MA)
Semantics of Akan bi and nʊ
Armoskaite, Solveiga (PhD)
The Destiny of Roots in Blackfoot and Lithuanian
Christodoulou, Christiana (PhD)
Cypriot Greek Down syndrome: their grammar and its interfaces
Derrick, Donald (PhD)
Kinematic patterning of flaps, taps and rhotics in English
Fujimori, Atsushi (PhD)
The correspondence between vowel quality and verbal telicity in Yamato-Japanese
Jacobs, Peter (PhD)
Control in Skwxwu7mesh
Jóhannsdóttir, Kristín M. (PhD)
Aspects of the progressive in English and Icelandic
Sterian, Laura Andreea (MA)
The syntax and semantics of gap and resumptive strategies in Iraqi Arabic D-linked content questions
2010 Alumni
Chávez-Peón, Mario (PhD)
The interaction of metrical structure, tone, and phonation types in Quiaviní Zapotec
Hudu, Fusheini (PhD)
Dagbani tongue-root harmony: a formal account with ultrasound investigation
Mudzingwa, Calisto (PhD)
Shona morphophonemics: repair strategies in Karanga and Zezuru
Peterson, Tyler (PhD)
Epistemic modality and evidentiality in Gitksan at the semantics-pragmatics interface
2009 Alumni
Caldecott, Marion (PhD)
Non-exhaustive parsing: phonetic and phonological evidence from St’át’imcets
Ferch, Elizabeth (MA)
Number and the scope of indefinites
2008 Alumni
Brown, Jason (PhD)
Theoretical aspects of Gitksan phonology
Cook, Clare (PhD)
The syntax and semantics of clause-typing in Plains Cree
Kiyota, Masaru (PhD)
Situation aspect and viewpoint aspect: from Salish to Japanese
Koch, Karsten (PhD)
Intonation and Focus in Nɬeʔkepmxcin (Thompson River Salish)
Mühlbauer, Jeffrey (PhD)
kâ-yôskâtahk ôma nêhiyawêwin: the representation of intentionality in Plains Cree
Steriopolo, Olga (PhD)
Form and function of expressive morphology: a case study of Russian
2007 Alumni
Barczak, Leszek (MA)
Towards an analysis of Yorùbá conditionals: its implications for the phrase structure
2006 Alumni
Ajíbóyè, Ọládiípọ̀ (PhD)
Topics on Yorùbá nominal expressions
Bar-el, Leora (PhD)
Aspectual distinctions in Sk̲wx̲wú7mesh
Gillon, Carrie (PhD)
The semantics of determiners domain restriction in Sk̲wx̲wú7mesh
Namdaran, Nahal (MA)
Retraction in St’át’imcets: an ultrasonic investigation
Picanço, Gessiane L. (PhD)
Mundurukú phonetics, phonology, synchrony, diachrony
Wilson, Ian (PhD)
Articulatory settings of French and English monolingual and bilingual speakers
2005 Alumni
Campbell, Fiona (MA)
The gestural organization of North American English /r/: a study of timing and magnitude
Oh, Sunyoung (PhD)
Articulatory characteristics of English /l/ in speech development
Perkins, Jeremy (MA)
The RTR harmonic domain in two dialects of Yorùbá
Quis, Dominique (MA)
The voice of a forgotten people: on the reconstructed etymology of the Beothuk (Shawthrut) self-designation sakanak ‘red indian people’
Ravinski, Christine (MA)
Grammatical possession in Nuu-chah-nulth
Ruangjaroon, Sugunya (PhD)
The syntax of WH-expressions as variables in Thai
Wojdak, Rachel (PhD)
The linearization of affixes: evidence from Nuu-chah-nulth
2004 Alumni
Jones, Susan (MA)
Progressive aspect and distributively quantified objects: a semantic/pragmatic account
McDowell, Ramona E. (MA)
Retraction in Montana Salish lateral consonants
Shank, Scott (PhD)
Domain widening
Shiobara, Kayono (PhD)
Linearization: a derivational approach to the syntax-prosody interface
2003 Alumni
Gessner, Suzanne (PhD)
The prosodic system of the Dakelh (Carrier) language
Gormley, Andrea (MA)
The production of consonant harmony in child speech
Kalmar, Michele (MA)
Patterns of reduplication in Kwak’wala
Kim, Eun-Sook (PhD)
Theoretical issues in Nuu-Chah-Nulth phonology and morphology
2002 Alumni
Baptiste, Maxine R. (MA)
Okanagan wh-questions
Kim, Soomee (MA)
Aspirates in Korean: perspectives on coalescence, CK, and gemination
2001 Alumni
Blake, Susan J. (PhD)
On the distribution and representation of schwa in Sliammon (Salish): descriptive and theoretical perspectives
Glougie, Jennifer (MA)
Topics in the syntax and semantics of Blackfoot quantifiers and nominals
Hirose, Tomio (PhD)
Origins of predicates evidence from Plains Cree
Howe, Darin M. (PhD)
Oowekyala segmental phonology
Rosen, Eric (PhD)
Phonological processes interacting with the lexicon: variable and non-regular effects in Japanese phonology
2000 Alumni
Kaneko, Ikuyo (MA)
A metrical analysis of Blackfoot nominal accent in optimality theory
Strauss, Uri (MA)
Phrase structure and verb movement in Hebrew and English imperatives
1999 Alumni
Bob, Tanya (MA)
Laryngeal phenomena in Tahltan
Caldecott, Marion (MA)
A comparison of glottalized resonants in Sənčaθən and St’át’imcets
Gessner, Suzanne (MA)
Laryngeal processes in Chipewyan and other Athapaskan languages
Nakamura, Yumiko (MA)
The syntax of possessor raising
1998 Alumni
Bar-El, Leora (MA)
Verbal plurality and adverbial quantification a case study of Sk̲wx̲ú7mesh (Squamish Salish)
Horseherder, Nicole (MA)
Binding-theoretic analysis of Navajo possessor YI-
Lai, I-Ju Sandra (MA)
The grammar and acquisition of Secwepemctsín independent pronouns
Suzuki, Takeru (PhD)
A theory of lexical functors light heads in the lexicon and the syntax
Uechi, Akihiko (PhD)
An interface approach to topic/focus structure
1997 Alumni
Blain, Eleanor M. (PhD)
Wh-constructions in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree)
Chang, Lisa (MA)
Wh-in-situ phenomena in French
Currie, Elizabeth J. (MA)
Topic time: the syntax and semantics of SqwXwu7mish temporal adverbials
Leitch, Myles F. (PhD)
Vowel harmonies of the Congo Basin: an optimality theory analysis of variation in the Bantu zone C
Li, J. Cora R. (MA)
Bei and the passive in Cantonese
Sanchez, Monica (PhD)
Syntactic features in agrammatic production
Shahin, Kimary (PhD)
Postvelar harmony an examination of its bases and crosslinguistic variation
Turkel, William J. (MA)
On triggered learning
1996 Alumni
Jiang-King, Ping (PhD)
An optimality account of tone-vowel interaction in Northern Min
Matthewson, Lisa (PhD)
Determiner systems and quantificational strategies evidence from Salish
Rosen, Eric (MA)
The postposing construction in Japanese
1995 Alumni
Ọla, Ọlanikẹ (PhD)
Optimality in Benue-Congo prosodic phonology and morphology
Qu, Yanfeng (PhD)
Object noun phrase dislocation in Mandarin Chinese
Thompson, William (MA)
Paradigms and the acquisition of agreement morphology in German
Valerga, Vanessa N. (MA)
Phonological representation of Spanish vibrants
1994 Alumni
Choi, Sohee (MA)
Korean vowel harmony: an optimality account
Howett, Catherine (MA)
On the classification of predicates in Nłe?képmx (Thompson River Salish)
Jimmie, Mandy N. (MA)
A prosodic analysis of Nłek̉epmx reduplication
Li, Erica Wen (MA)
Passives in Mandarin Chinese
Roberts, Taylor (MA)
Subject and topic in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish)
1993 Alumni
Bessell, Nicola J. (PhD)
Towards a phonetic and phonological typology of post-velar articulation
Hunt, Katharine D. (PhD)
Clause structure, agreement and case in Gitksan
1992 Alumni
Blake, Susan J. (MA)
Two aspects of Sliammon (ɬáʔamɪnqən) phonology: glide/obstruent alternation and vowel length
Millard, David (MA)
The prosodic structure of Finnish and the theory of phonological government
1991 Alumni
Fee, E. Jane (PhD)
Underspecification, parameters, and the acquisition of vowels
1990 Alumni
Remnant, Daphne E. (MA)
Tongue root articulations: a case study of Lillooet
1988 Alumni
Andrews, Christina (MA)
Lexical phonology of Chilcotin
Bagemihl, Bruce (PhD)
Alternate phonologies and morphologies
Paradis, Johanne C. (MA)
The syllable structure of Japanese
1987 Alumni
Davis, Henry (PhD)
The acquisition of the English auxiliary system and its relation to linguistic theory
1986 Alumni
Nakata, Masahiko (MA)
Verbal compounds in Japanese: implications for morphological theory
Roberge, Yves (PhD)
The syntactic recoverability of null arguments
1985 Alumni
Elesseily, Nagat H. (MA)
Subject extraction from embedded clauses in standard Arabic
Ross, Martin (MA)
Japanese lexical phonology and morphology
1984 Alumni
Belvin, Robert S. (MA)
Nisgha syntax and the ergativity hypothesis
Thompson, Wendy (MA)
Reduplication in Nisgha
1982 Alumni
Hébert, Yvonne M. (PhD)
Transitivity in (Nicola Lake) Okanagan
Tse, Sou-Mee (PhD)
The acquisition of Cantonese phonology
1981 Alumni
Preuss, Renate Jutta (MA)
Colour naming in young children
1980 Alumni
Chan, Marjorie K.M. (MA)
Zhong-shan Phonology: A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of a Yue (Cantonese) Dialect
Fee, E. Jane (MA)
The relationship between mothers’ pronominal modifications and children’s acquisition of pronominal reference
Morgan, Lawrence R. (MA)
Kootenay-Salishan linguistic comparison : a preliminary study
1979 Alumni
Suzuki, Yoshiko (MA)
Directional verbs in English and Japanese
Woods, Howard B. (PhD)
A socio-dialectology survey of the English spoken in Ottawa: a study of sociological and stylistic variation in Canadian English
1978 Alumni
Pattison, Lois Cornelia (MA)
Douglas Lake Okanagan: phonology and morphology
Placzek, James Anthony (MA)
Classifiers in standard Thai : a study of semantic relations between headwords and classifiers
1977 Alumni
de Wolf, Gaelan (MA)
Tlingit phonology in a generative framework : an examination of phonological processes and abstract representation
Gerdts, Donna B. (MA)
Dialect survey of Halkomelem Salish
Nokony, Alicia Alexander (MA)
Meaning development in one child acquiring Dakota-Sioux as a first language
1976 Alumni
Gibson, Deborah Jean (MA)
A thesis on eh
Sándi, Gábor (MA)
The phonology of the dialects of England
Stevenson, Roberta C. (MA)
The pronunciation of English in British Columbia : an analysis of the responses to the phonological section of the Linguistic Survey of B. C., Postal Questionnaire (PQ3)
Wigod, Rebecca (MA)
The matter of metaphor and its importance for linguistics
1975 Alumni
Hawes, Lorna Joy (MA)
Some theories of language typology and language change
Matsuda, Hiroshi (MA)
A transformational study of Japanese reflexivization
1974 Alumni
Beckett, Eleanor (MA)
A linguistic analysis of Gurma
Machado-Holsti, Mina Estrela (MA)
Generative-transformational sketch of Portuguese syntax : a computer model
Ogawa, Toshimitsu Augustine (MA)
Study of Japanese relativization
1973 Alumni
Davison, Annie Souren (MA)
Interrogatives, negation and linguistic play in three children acquiring French as a first language
Powell, Mava Jo (MA)
Semantic analysis of ‘because’
1972 Alumni
Morshed, Abul Kalam Manzur (MA)
The phonological, morphological and syntactical patterns of standard colloquial Bengali and the Noakhali dialect
1971 Alumni
Ogawa, Nobuo (MA)
On the Japanese passive form
Swoboda, Leo John (MA)
Lillooet phonology, texts and dictionary
1969 Alumni
Kenwood, Christopher Michael (MA)
A study of slang and informal usage in the newspaper
1967 Alumni
Olaya, Norma Peralta (MA)
A phonological grammar of a dialect of Ilokano
Peralta-Pineda, Ponciano Bendiola (MA)
Tagalog transformational syntax : a preliminary statement
Staume, Guido (MA)
A glottochronological analysis of Latvian and Russian
Tan, Evangeline K. (MA)
The phonology of Tausug : a descriptive analysis
Yap, Fe Aldave (MA)
Synchronic analysis of Tagalog phonemes
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Diachronic poetics and language history: studies in archaic greek poetry , feature mismatch: deponency in indo-european languages , interpreting questions with non-exhaustive answers , linking form to meaning: reevaluating the evidence for the unaccusative hypothesis , a modular theory of radical pro drop , nominal arguments and language variation , prosodic noun incorporation and verb-initial syntax , the semantics of measurement , the sense of self: topics in the semantics of de se expressions , soft but strong. neg-raising, soft triggers, and exhaustification , split intransitivity in ranmo , studies in tocharian adjective formation , the syntax-phonology interface in native and near-native korean , the caland system in the north: archaism and innovation in property-concept/state morphology in balto-slavic , the linguistic and conceptual representation of scalar alternatives: number and 'only' as case studies , toward a theory of mandarin quantification , unnatural phonology: a synchrony-diachrony interface approach .
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Acoustic and perceptual evidence of complete neutralization of word-final tonal specification in Japanese
Acoustics and Perception of Clear Fricatives
An ERP investigation of individual differences in the processing of wh-dependencies by native and non-native speakers
A lower Chehalis phonology
Sibilant Contrast: Perception, Production, and Sound Change
How Native Chinese Listeners and Second-Language Chinese Learners Process Tones in Word Recognition: An Eye-tracking Study
Explicit teaching of Japanese mimetic words using voicing, gemintion, and reduplication rules
Nominalization in Pulaar
The role of argument structure in Meꞌphaa verbal agreement
THE USE OF SEGMENTAL AND SUPRASEGMENTAL INFORMATION IN LEXICAL ACCESS: A FIRST- AND SECOND-LANGUAGE CHINESE INVESTIGATION
Second language lexical processing: influence of teaching method and word characteristics
Production and perception of Korean and English word-level prominence by Korean speakers
The nature of variation in tone sandhi patterns of Shanghai and Wuxi Wu
Tracking Bilingual Activation in the Processing and Production of Spanish Stress
Processing morphologically complex words in native and non-native French
Observing the contribution of both underlying and surface representations: Evidence from priming and event-related potentials
A Grammatical Sketch of Comox
The online use of markedness information in L1 and L2 Spanish gender agreement
An analysis of the Arabic Pidgin spoken by Indian workers in Saudi Arabia
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN PREDICTIVE PROCESSING: EVIDENCE FROM SUBJECT FILLED-GAP EFFECTS IN NATIVE AND NONNATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH
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Theses/Dissertations
Since 1999, most theses and dissertations submitted by graduate students at the university are published online in the UGA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Database (ETD) . This page is a list of recent theses and dissertations produced by graduates of the University of Georgia M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Linguistics, with a link to the UGA ETD page for the pdf file.
Dissertations
Julia Steele Josephs. Ph.D., 2023. Variable Que in Three Francophone Regions Advisor: Diana L. Ranson
Trevor Ramsey . Ph.D., 2023. Phonetic Trend in the Speech of Transgender Speakers of English and German Advisor: Margaret Renwick
Jacob Emerson. M.A., 2023. Emojis: Perceptions by Online Communities Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Julia Horton. M.A., 2023. So What Does It Do?: the Multifunctionality of Discourse Marker so in Two Television Sitcoms Advisor: Sarah E. Blackwell
Michael Gray. M.A., 2023. Emojis and the Expression of Queer Identity: A Sentiment Analysis Approach Advisor: Chad Howe
Andrew Robert Bray. Ph.D., 2022. A Hockey-Based Persona: The Sociolinguistic Impact of Canadian English on American-Born Players Advisor: Chad Howe
Kit Callaway. Ph.D., 2022. From Ey to Ze: Gender-neutral Pronouns as Pronominal Change Advisor: Chad Howe
Wonbin Kim. Ph.D., 2022. Distributional Corpus Analysis of Korean Neologisms using Artificial Intelligence Advisor: William A. Kretzschmar
Katherine Ireland Kuiper. Ph.D., 2022. Patterns of Health: A Corpus Analysis of Health Information and Messaging Advisor: William A. Kretzschmar
Rachel Miller Olsen. Ph.D., 2022. IT’S ALL IN HOW YOU SAY IT: PROSODIC CUES TO SOCIAL IDENTITY AND EMOTION Advisor: Margaret E. L. Renwick
Shannon Penton Rodriguez. Ph.D., 2022. Constructing, Performing, and Indexing “Southern” Latino Identities: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Intersection of Ethnicity and Place in the Speech of Young Adult Latinos in Georgia Advisor: Chad Howe
Rachel A. Ankirskiy. M.A., 2022. VARIATION IN JAPANESE NOMINAL PARTICLE OMISSION: TOWARDS A CORPUS-BASED SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Joseph Finnegan Beckwith. M.A., 2022. THE DECLINE OF THE SIMPLE PAST: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SIMPLE AND COMPOUND PAST FORMS IN ROMANCE AND GERMANIC LANGUAGES Advisor: Jared Klein
Lisa Lipani. Ph.D., 2021. Subphonemic Variation in English Stops: Studies using automated methods and large-scale data Advisor: Margaret Renwick
Michael Olsen. Ph.D., 2021. CULTURAL KEYWORDS IN AMERICAN EDITORIAL DISCOURSE Advisor: William A. Kretzschmar
Bailey Bigott. M.A., 2021. Mock Infantile Speech: A Sociolinguistics Perspective Advisor: Jon Forrest
Kora Layce Burton. M.A., 2021. Lexical and Thematic "Peculiar Mood" Development of Faërie Language in the Germanic Cauldron of Story Advisor: Jared Klein
Mary Caroline Clabby. M.A., 2021. Comme Y’all Voulez: Translanguaging Practices in Digitally Mediated Communication Advisor: Linda Harklau
Jordan Grace Graham. M.A., 2021. #WHOSE LIVES MATTER: A MIXED MEDIA ANALYSIS OF THE #BLACKLIVESMATTER AND #BLUELIVESMATTER ON TWITTER DURING THE SUMMER OF 2020 Advisor: John Hale
Lindsey Antonini. Ph.D., 2020. The Copula in Malayalam Advisor: Pilar Chamorro
Joey Stanley. Ph.D., 2020. Vowel Dynamics of the Elsewhere Shift: A Sociophonetic Analysis of English in Cowlitz County, Washington Advisor: Lewis Chadwick Howe
Longlong Wang. Ph.D.., 2020. The Past Tenses in Colloquial Singapore English Advisor: Pilar Chamorro
Douglas C. Merchant. Ph.D., 2019. Idioms at the interface(s): towards a psycholinguistically grounded model of sentence generation Advisor: Timothy Gupton
Aidan Oliver Cheney-Lynch. M.A., 2019. Studies in feminine derivation in Vedic Advisor: Jared Klein
Conni Diane Covington. M.A., 2019. Frequency and the German(ic) verb: a historical sociolinguistic study of class VII Advisor: Joshua Bousquette
William James Lackey III . M.A., 2019. Denasalization in early austronesian Advisor: Jared Klein
Kelly Wade Petronis . M.A., 2019. Finding the game: a conversation analysis of laughables and play frames in comedic improv Advisor: Ruth Harman
Mohammad Fahad Aljutaily . Ph.D. 2018. The influence of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the variation of Arabic marked consonants in the speech of Gulf Pidgin Arabic : acoustic analysis Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe
Sofia Alexandrovna Ivanova . Ph.D. 2018. Cue weighting in the acquisition of four American English vowel contrasts by native speakers of Russian Co-Advisors: Victoria Hasko and Keith Langston
Elisabeth Wood Anderson Lacross . Ph.D. 2018. Variation in future temporal reference in southern France Advisor: Diana Ranson
Sandra McGury . Ph.D. 2018. Passives are tough to analyze Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Amanda Nicole Walls . Ph.D. 2018. Israel's Pagan Passover Advisor: Richard Friedman
Alexander Ankirskiy . M.A. 2018. Investigating the potential for merger of Icelandic 'flámæli' vowel pairs through functional load Advisor: Margaret Renwick
Ryan Michael Dekker . M.A. 2018. Income effects on speech community: : Oconee County within northeastern Georgia Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe
Nicole Elizabeth Dreier . M.A. 2018. Gender in Proto-Indo-European and the feminine morphemes Advisor: Jared Klein
Melissa Ann Gomes . M.A. 2018. A Holistic Analysis of Get Constructions Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Jason D Hagler . M.A. 2018. Call of qatullu: towards an understanding of the semantic role of terminal root consonant reduplication in the Semitic languages Advisor: Baruch Halpern
Joshua Robert Hummel . M.A. 2017. Conflict's connotation: a study of protest and riot in contemporary news media Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe
Madeline Asher Jones . M.A. 2017. The impact of EFL teacher motivational strategies on student motivation to learn english in Costa Rica Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Mariah Lillian Copeland Parker . M.A. 2017. Flippin' the script, joustin' from the mouth: a systemic functional linguistic approach to hip hop discourse Advisor: Ruth Harman
Christa August Rampley . M.A. 2017. Ratchet: an etymological origin & social dispersion theory Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe
Joseph Thomas Rhyne . M.A. 2017. Quantifying the comparative method: applying computational approaches to the Balto-Slavic question Advisor: Jared Klein
Wei Chen . Ph.D. 2016. The impact of environmental factors on the production of english narratives by Spanish-English bilingual children Advisor: Liang Chen
Richard Moses Katz Jr . Ph.D. 2016. The resultative in Gothic Advisor: Jared Klein
Martin Jakub Macak . Ph.D. 2016. Studies in classical and modern Armenian phonology Advisor: Jared Klein
Judith Allen Oliver . Ph.D. 2016. When fingerspelling throws a curveball Advisor: William Kretzschmar
Andrew Michael Paczkowski . Ph.D. 2016. Toward a new method for analyzing syntax in poetry: discriminating grammatical patterns in the Rigveda Advisor: Jared Klein
Jennimaria Kristiina Palomaki . Ph.D. 2016. The pragmatics and syntax of the Finnish -han particle clitic Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Calvin Ferst . M.A. 2016. Walhalla: language shift in the garden of the gods Advisor: Joshua Bousquette
Maisy Elizabeth French . M.A. 2016. When orthography and phonology collide: an examination of the effect of orthography on the phonetic production of homophones Advisor: Margaret Renwick
Karen Elizabeth Sesterhenn . M.A. 2016. An overview of the phenomenon of doublets in English Advisor: Jared Klein
Steven Slone Coats . Ph.D. 2015. Finland Twitter English: lexical, grammatical, and geographical properties Advisor: William Kretzschmar
Xiangyu Jiang . Ph.D. 2015. Ultimate attainment in the production of narratives by Chinese-English bilinguals Advisor: Liang Chen
Rachel Virginia Nabulsi . Ph.D. 2015. Burial practices, funerary texts, and the treatment of death in Iron Age Israel and Aram Advisor: Richard Friedman
Tomoe Nishio . Ph.D. 2015. Negotiating contradictions in a Japanese-American telecollaboration: an activity theory analysis of online intercultural exchange Advisor: Linda Harklau
Xiaodong Zhang . Ph.D. 2015. A discourse approach to teachers? beliefs and textbook use: a case study of a Chinese college EFL classroom Advisor: Ruth Harman
Michael Reid Ariail . M.A. 2015. Language and dialectal variation in request structures: an analysis of Costa Rican Spanish and southern American English Advisor: Sarah Blackwell
Eleanor Detreville . M.A. 2015. An overview of Latin morphological calques on Greek technical terms: formation and success Advisor: Jared Klein
Luke Madison Smith . M.A. 2015. External possession and the undisentanglability of syntax and semantics Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Scott Lee . Ph.D. 2014. The phonetics of intonation in learner varieties of French Advisor: Keith Langston
Laura Brewer . M.A. 2014. Cognitive connections between linguistic and musical syntax: an optimality theoretic approach Advisor: Keith Langston
Courtney Ann Macer . M.A. 2014. Relearning heritage language phonology Advisor: Margaret Renwick
Tiffany Strickland . M.A. 2014. Eat their words: a corpus-based analysis of grocery store discourse Advisor: Jonathan Evans
Julia Catherine Patterson Sturm . M.A. 2014. Idiomatization of preverb + verb compounds in the ?g Veda Advisor: Jared Klein
Kenneth Jeffrey Knight . Ph.D. 2013. L1 English vocalic transfer in L2 Japanese Advisor: Don McCreary
Heather Lee Mello . Ph.D. 2013. Analysis of language variation and word segmentation for a corpus of Vietnamese blogs: a sociolinguistic approach Advisor: William Kretzschmar
Hugo Enrique Mendez . Ph.D. 2013. Canticles in translation: the treatment of poetic language in the Greek, Gothic, Classical Armenian, and Old Church Slavonic gospels Advisor: Jared Klein
Nicole Elizabeth Siffrinn . M.A. 2013. Using appraisal analysis to map value systems in high-stakes writing rubrics Advisor: Ruth Harman
Mark Raymund Wenthe . Ph.D. 2012. Issues in the placement of enclitic personal pronouns in the Rigveda Advisor: Jared Klein
Ellen Marie Ayres . M.A. 2012. Influences on gender agreement in adjectives among adult learners of Spanish Advisor: Don McCreary
Marcus Paul Berger . M.A. 2012. Parallel hierarchies: a minimalist analysis of nominals and gerunds Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Kelly Patricia Dugan . M.A. 2012. A generative approach to homeric enjambment: benefits and drawbacks Advisor: Jared Klein
Kristen Marie Fredriksen . M.A. 2012. Constraints on perfect auxiliary contraction: evidence from spoken American English Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe
Anastasia Nikolaevna Sorokina . M.A. 2012. The dynamics of bilingual mental lexcon: the effects of partical conceptual equivalence on acquisition of Russian as an L2 Advisor: Victoria Hasko
Allison Rebecca Wachter . M.A. 2012. Semantic prosody and intensifier variation in academic speech Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe
Sam Zukoff . M.A. 2012. The phonology of verbal reduplication in Ancient Greek: an Optimality Theory approach Advisor: Jared Klein
Radia Benzehra . Ph.D. 2011. Arabic-English/ English-Arabic lexicography: a critical perspective Advisor: Don McCreary
Satomi Suzuki Chenoweth . Ph.D. 2011. Novice language learners? Off-screen verbal and nonverbal behaviors during university synchronous Japanese virtual education Advisors: Kathryn Roulston & Linda Harklau
Willie Udo Willie . Ph.D. 2011. Lexical aspect and lexical saliency in acquisition of past tense-aspect morphology among Ibibio ESL learners Advisor: Lioba Moshi
Renee Lorraine Kemp . M.A. 2011. The perception of German dorsal fricatives by native speakers of English Advisor: Keith Langston
Erin Beltran Mitchelson . M.A. 2011. Implicature use in L2 Advisor: Don McCreary
Justin Victor Sperlein . M.A. 2011. A Phonetic Summarizer for Sociolinguists: concordancing by phonetic criteria Advisor: William Kretzschmar
Garrison E. Bickerstaff Jr . Ph.D. 2010. Construction and application of Bounded Virtual Corpora of British and American English Advisor: William Kretzschmar
Paulina Bounds . Ph.D. 2010. Perception versus production of Polish speech: Pozna? Advisor: William Kretzschmar
Alberto Centeno-Pulido . Ph.D. 2010. Reconciling generativist and functionalist approaches on adjectival position in Spanish Advisor: Sarah Blackwell
Janay Crabtree . Ph.D. 2010. Roads and paths in adaptation to non-native speech and implications for second language acquisition Advisor: Don McCreary
Jeff Kilpatrick . Ph.D. 2010. The development of Latin post-tonic /Cr/ clusters in select Northern Italian dialects Advisor: Jared Klein
Joseph Allen Pennington . Ph.D. 2010. A study of purpose, result, and casual hypotaxis in early Indo-European gospel versions Advisor: Jared Klein
Aram Cho . M.A. 2010. Influence of L1 on L2 learners of Korean: a perception test on Korean vowels and stop consonants Advisor: Don McCreary
Frances Rankin Gray . M.A. 2010. It's like 120 milliseconds: a search for grammaticalization in the duration of like in five functions Advisor: Don McCreary
Magdalene Sophia Jacobs . M.A. 2010. The decline of the French passe simple: a variationist analysis of the passÉ simple and passe compose in selected texts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries Advisor: Diana Ranson
Nathan Loggins . M.A. 2010. Mandarin loanword phonology: a case study of three English mid vowels Advisor: Keith Langston
Caley Charles Smith . M.A. 2010. The development of final [asterisk]/-as/ in Pre-Vedic Advisor: Jared Klein
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Unpacking the history of middle chinese *ɣu- in the yue dialects in guangdong: a dialect geographical analysis , perception and production of singular they in british english , cross-dialect variation in dinka tonal morphology , morphophonological interactions in shilluk: an investigation into the tone system and suffixation patterns in the gar dialect , vowel duration in the standard english of scotland , linguicide or linguistic suicide: a case study of indigenous minority languages in france , combining translation into the second language and second language learning : an integrated computational approach , post-critical period age of arrival and its relationship to ultimate attainment in a second language , hci for development: does sense of agency affect the adoption of a mobile health insurance service in tanzania , language policy and planning in xinjiang uygur autonomous region of china , comparable structural priming from comprehension and production: evidence against error-based learning of syntactic structure , developing educational games for teaching children with special educational needs , variation in the speech of university students from edinburgh: the cases of /x/ and // , a diachronic constructional investigation into the adverse avertive schema in chinese , onset consonants and the perceptions of tone and voicing in thai , simulating the interaction between mindreading and language in development and evolution , in task-oriented dyadic dialogue, how do non-native speakers of english align with each other in terms of lexical choices , native english speakers' music ability and their perception and production of l2 mandarin tones , a study of cmc language switching in china , the cognitive processes involved with hitting a fastball and why the baseball axiom "keeping your eye on the ball" is an exercise in futility .
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Dissertations from 2024 2024.
Effects of Raters’ Professional Background and Task on the Variability of Writing Scores , Analynn P. Bustamante
The role of chatbot-Assisted Collaboration Tasks and Learner Characteristics in the Alignment-Driven Learning of Second Language Grammar and Pragmatics: Comparing the Provision of Primes and Recasts , Sanghee Kang
Dissertations from 2023 2023
Writing Science for Diverse Audiences: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis of the Language of Science News and Research Articles , Jordan Batchelor
Bridging Corpus Linguistics to ITA Training and Testing: Validation of Functional Language in Academic Lectures , Haoshan Ren
Towards Including Second Language Varieties of English on High-stakes International Tests of English Proficiency: A Perceptual Adaptation Study , Yi Tan
Argumentation in L1 and L2 Adult Writers: A Process-based Perspective Using Keystroke Logging , Yu Tian
Dissertations from 2022 2022
Extensive Reading-to-write Task Outcome, Vocabulary Learning and Korean EFL Students’ Perceptions towards Task Performance: Comparing Monomodal and Multimodal Composing Tasks , Hyejin Cho
Practice Teaching During Study Abroad in Second Language Teacher Education: A Longitudinal, Multi-Case Study of Preservice Teachers’ Cognition Development and Task Implementation , Meredith H. D'Arienzo
Dissertations from 2021 2021
Linguistic Perceptions and Ideologies of Race and Whiteness in the USA , Taylor James Chlapowski
Writing in the Disciplines and Within-discipline Variations: A Comparison of the Formulaic Profiles of the Medical Research Article and the Medical Case Report , Ndeye Bineta Mbodj
The Relationships between Second Language Speakers’ Oral Productions, Oral Proficiency, and their Individual Differences: A Longitudinal Study , Tamanna Mostafa
Exploring Language Teachers’ Assessment Practices and Language Learners’ Perceptions towards Assessment in the Online Environment , Yunjung Nam
Dissertations from 2020 2020
Language Program Development through Internationalization , Mackenzie Bristow
Seeking the unseen humanities macrostructures: The use of corpus- and genre-assisted research methodologies to analyze written norms in English and Spanish literary criticism articles , William Lake
Examining Task Transferability in Task-Based Language Teaching: A Multi-Case Study , Charlotte Nolen
Investigating Reading Behavior and Inference-making in Advanced L2 Reading Comprehension Assessment Tasks , Rurik Tywoniw
Developing and Testing Alternative Benchmarks of Lexical Sophistication: L2 Lexical Frequency, Semantic Context, and Word Recognition Indices , Katia Vanderbilt
A constructional analysis of written academic English as a Lingua Franca: The case of unedited and edited research writing , Selahattin Yilmaz
Dissertations from 2019 2019
Assessing English Writing in Multilingual Writers in Higher Education: A Longitudinal Study , Minkyung Kim
Reimagining Multilingualism From the Heritage Speaker Perspective: A View of Language Brokering Through the Lens of Translanguaging and Resemiotization , Jessica Lian
Dissertations from 2018 2018
The Longitudinal Development of Lexical Network Knowledge in L2 Learners: Multiple Methods and Parallel Data , Cynthia May Berger
Discerning the Language Assessment Literacy of EFL Teachers in Uzbekistan: An Individual, Social, and Sociohistorical Teacher Cognition Inquiry , David Lawrence Chiesa
The Development of Collocations as Constructions in L2 Writing , James Garner
CFL Teacher Cognition in K-8 School Settings: Focus on Classroom Management , Ziyi Geng
The Role of Socially-Mediated Alignment in the Development of Second Language Grammar and Vocabulary: Comparing Face-to-Face and Synchronous Mobile-Mediated Communication , Yeon Joo Jung
Lexical Bundles in Argumentative Essays by Native and Nonnative English-Speaking Novice Academic Writers , Yu Kyoung Shin
Beyond Literal Meaning: Linguistic And Cognitive Features Of Figurative Language Processing And Production , STEPHEN SKALICKY
Dissertations from 2017 2017
Locus of Control in L2 English Listening Assessment , Sarah J. Goodwin
The Impact of Dialogic CF on L2 Japanese Writers' Linguistic and Affective Outcomes , Mizuki Mazzotta
Input-rich Writing Tasks and Student Writing on an English Language Proficiency Test , Megan J. Montee
SOCIAL POSITIONING IN REFUGEE WOMEN’S EDUCATION: A LINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHY OF ONE ENGLISH CLASS , Nicole Pettitt
Dissertations from 2016 2016
Case Study of an English Program in a Multi-ethnic Chinese Context: Feasibility of Genred Task Instructional Approaches and Implications for Teacher Development , Merideth Hoagland
Measuring Syntactic Development in L2 Writing: Fine Grained Indices of Syntactic Complexity and Usage-Based Indices of Syntactic Sophistication , Kristopher Kyle
Language Policy in Rwanda: Shifting Linguistic and Educational Landscape , Pamela Pearson
Linguistic diversity and the politics of international inclusion in higher education: A critical sociolinguistic study international teaching assistants , Nicholas Subtirelu
Two Perspectives on Writing: A Cross-Context Study of Second Language Writing , Hae Sung Yang
Dissertations from 2014 2014
Academic Literacy Experiences of Undergraduate Students: Comparing Generation 1.5, International, and Native-speaking Populations , Luciana Findlay
Undergraduate Student Writing Across the Disciplines: Multi-Dimensional Analysis Studies , Jack Hardy
Language, literacy, and funds of knowledge: Somali refugee women in Clarkston, Georgia , Cassie Leymarie
Words of Experience: Semantic Content Analysis and Individual Differences among Successful Second Language Learners , Brittany Polat
Patterns of interaction in peer response: the relationship between pair dynamics and revision outcomes , Audrey P. Roberson
Personal Practical Knowledge of Graduate Spanish-Teaching Assistants: An Issue of Experience , Nancy Yanez-Pinto
Mapping the Relationships among the Cognitive Complexity of Independent Writing Tasks, L2 Writing Quality, and Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency of L2 Writing , Weiwei Yang
Dissertations from 2013 2013
An Investigation of Language Teachers’ Explorations of the Use of Corpus Tools in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Class , John D. Bunting
An Investigation of Pre-Service English Language Teacher Attitudes towards Varieties of English in Interaction , Jason J. Litzenberg
Exploring Undergraduate Disciplinary Writing: Expectations and Evidence in Psychology and Chemistry , Katherine E. Moran
Constructing Arabic as Heritage: Investment in Language, Literacy, and Identity among Young U.S. Learners , Amanda L. Temples
Dissertations from 2012 2012
Theory to Practice, Practice to Theory: Developing a Critical and Feminist Pedagogy for an English as a Second Language Academic Writing Classroom , Lauren Lukkarila
Learner-Learner Interaction: An Exploration of the Mediating Functions of Multilingual Learners’ Languages in an L3 Foreign Language Classroom , Caroline A. Payant
Dissertations from 2011 2011
Pronunciation Pedagogy: Second Language Teacher Cognition and Practice , Amanda A. Baker
Product and Process in Toefl iBT Independent and Integrated Writing Tasks: A Validation Study , Liang Guo
Refugees Negotiating Academic Literacies in First-Year College: Challenges, Strategies, and Resources , Eliana Hirano
A Genre Analysis of Second Language Classroom Discourse: Exploring the Rhetorical, Linguistic, and Contextual Dimensions of Language Lessons , Joseph J. Lee
Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language in the United States: To Delay or Not to Delay the Character Introduction , Lijuan Ye
Exploring Second Language Writing Teacher Cognition , Nur Yigitoglu
Dissertations from 2010 2010
Cognitive Factors Contributing to Chinese EFL Learners’ L2 Writing Performance in Timed Essay Writing , Yanbin Lu
Korean Teachers' Beliefs about English Language Education and their Impacts upon the Ministry of Education-Initiated Reforms , Cheong Min Yook
Dissertations from 2009 2009
Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Second Language Listening Comprehension , Guiling Hu
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in American, Arab, and British Media: Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis , Magdi Ahmed Kandil
Dissertations from 2008 2008
Negotiation of Identities by International Teaching Assistants through the Use of Humor in University Classrooms , Iryna Kozlova
In Search of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Teachers' Knowledge of Vocabulary Instruction , Weimin Zhang
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This collection contains open access and campus access Masters theses, made possible through Graduate Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The full content of open access theses is available to all, although some files may have embargoes placed on them and will be made available as soon as possible. The full content of campus access theses is only available to those either on the UMass Boston campus or with a UMass Boston campus username and password. Click on the "Off-Campus UMass Boston Users" link on the record page to download Campus Access publications. Those not on campus and those without a UMass Boston campus username and password may gain access to this thesis through resources like Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global or through Interlibrary Loan.
Theses from 2023 2023
The "Messy Middle": A Framework for Analyzing Raciolinguistic Inequity , Casey Erin Anthony
Japanese Reading Japlish: High School Students Study Their Own Fashion Linguistic Landscape , Gabriel Frost Johnson
Theses from 2021 2021
Meaning-Making Dynamics of Job Interview Performances , Jacquelyn K. Bertman
Theses from 2020 2020
Computerized Dynamic Assessment of Grammar in Second Language Development , Tina S. Randall
Limited Viewpoints: The Implementation of Multimodal Constructs in an ELL Model Curriculum Unit , Deborah A. Smith
Theses from 2019 2019
Adult Educators at the Crossroads of Language Learning and Workforce Development: A Qualitative Study of Teacher Agency , Liz Ging
Language Learning and ADA: An Observation of d/Deaf Adults and Their Interpreters in ESL Classrooms , Katharine M. Ward
Theses from 2017 2017
Languaging at Work: The Language Socialization of Support Staff in the Healthcare Workforce , Kristen E. Schlapp
Theses from 2016 2016
Performing Language and Identities: Adult Immigrant Students and the Creation of a Play , Kathleen R. McGovern
Theses from 2015 2015
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Remember that you are responsible for scheduling your thesis defense in the semester in which you plan to file. Work with the graduate assistant to find a room once you and your committee have settled on a time. Allow two hours for the defense.
Writing the MA Thesis in Linguistics
An MA thesis represents an original investigation into a problem or a research project that contributes new knowledge to the field. A thesis is not required in our MA program. You should undertake an MA thesis if some idea or observation intrigues you so much that you want to pursue it in depth, and you wish to have the experience of organizing and executing your own research project. Beyond this, some students may be motivated to write the MA thesis in order to produce a writing sample for PhD applications or because the MA degree may carry more weight professionally if associated with a thesis. Note that students who elect to write a thesis may count the oral thesis-defense as the concluding exam for the program in place of the written comprehensive exam taken by non-thesis-writers.
- Select a topic, enlisting the help of an advisor or advisors (official or not). This is very important. Most students will try to tackle a project that is much too big for the time and resources available. So you will need faculty help in refining your research question(s) and your methodology into something that can be managed for this project. You should do this no later than the middle of your second semester in the program ; the earlier, the better.
- At the same time, you will select an official advisor. Faculty are not obliged to take on thesis projects, so listen to the feedback you receive from faculty and be prepared to ‘sell’ your idea to your chosen mentor. Eventually you will need to recruit a committee of three faculty members (including your advisor, two of whom must be from the Linguistics department), but many thesis projects get most of their input from a single advisor. Unlike a PhD thesis committee, an MA committee need not contain an external member (a CU faculty member from outside LING) . You are welcome to invite an external member to serve as the third member of your thesis committee, but faculty members from institutions outside CU are not permitted to serve on MA thesis committees. You must have your committee in place by early March (or late October for fall graduation) of your last semester in the program. Notify the Linguistics program assistant of your committee’s composition to be recorded in your file.
- Start early and observe the work schedule religiously. Scrambling to get everything done in the last two weeks of the semester is neither fun nor good scholarly methodology, and it does not endear you to your faculty committee.
There are strict Graduate School procedures and deadlines governing the preparation and submission of the thesis. Be sure to follow them . Linguistics Education Program Assistant Ethan McGinnis is fully informed about the procedures and should be consulted about them. See this link for thesis formatting .Your thesis will be submitted electronically ; the signed title page is also submitted.
The Schedule
Work backwards. If you plan to graduate with a completed thesis in May of 20xx, you must file your completed thesis by mid-April of 20xx (exact date set by the Graduate School each Academic Year). Before your thesis is filed, it must be researched, written, read by the committee, defended, revised, and re-read by the committee, and the defense and revision always happen at a time of the semester when both you and the faculty are extremely busy. You must allow enough time between the defense exam and the filing date to make required revisions and allow the faculty readers sufficient time to evaluate the document carefully. Be aware that if you do not allow at least two weeks between your defense date and the thesis filing date, you will probably postpone the awarding of your diploma until the following graduation date (at least).
So for a spring graduation , your backwards schedule might look like this (the dates for a particular year will vary):
- late-April : File the thesis with the Graduate School by the thesis filing deadline, ensuring that you have conformed to the thesis specifications.
- early-April : Submit the final version of your thesis, incorporating revisions required by your thesis committee, to your thesis committee. Make sure to do this well ahead of the thesis filing deadline. While they read it, make sure all Graduate School procedures are understood and being followed.
- mid- to late-March (ideally before spring break) : Take the thesis defense exam. You must work with your committee and the program assistant in Linguistics to fix the time and room for your thesis defense. Allow two hours for the defense . Be sure to check with your thesis advisor about the appropriate format for the defense (e.g., how long your presentation should be, how many minutes to set aside for questions).
- early March, depending on defense arrangements : Submit the completed thesis to your committee (at least two weeks before the defense date). Make certain that the exam report form, containing the names of your thesis committee members (and which your committee will sign once you have taken the exam), has been sent to the Graduate School at least two weeks in advance of the defense date.
- March 1 or earlier : Submit the final draft of your thesis to your advisor. The advisor needs time to read this draft before giving you clearance to circulate it to the rest of the committee. Expect to do some revising between now and the date when you will give the document to the whole committee.
- February or earlier : Make certain that all three of your desired committee members are willing to serve. Ensure that you have notified the Linguistics program assistant of your committee’s composition.
- February 1, graduation year : File the Application for Candidacy form with the Graduate School (see below).
- April 1, first year (second semester in program) : Submit a thesis proposal (2 pages) that outlines your topic and methods to your advisor and one additional committee member. Notify the Linguistics program assistant of your advisor to be recorded in your digital file. To be safe, double-check during advising to make sure that this information is in your official Record of Progress. You now have nearly a year in which to do the project and write the thesis.
- December, first year (end of first semester in program) : Express "soft intent" to do a thesis. This means that you have discussed the thesis possibility with at least one interested faculty member and the Grad Advisor. At this point, you are not yet obligated to write a thesis; however, you are encouraged to take the Research in Linguistics course in Spring to further explore your interests.
Additional Regulations
- Credit hours : You must take (i.e., pay for) at least four, and may take up to six, credits of the course listed as MA Thesis in order to graduate under the thesis plan. You can register for those hours at any time that is convenient (financially most advantageous) for you and your advisor; the timing of the credits does not have to be the same as the timing of your work on the thesis. You may take all the credits in one semester if you wish. Those 4-6 credit hours substitute for course credits and contribute to the 30 total hours you need to graduate.
Master's Thesis Plan Form : Students completing a written thesis must now submit a Master’s Thesis Plan Form contained in this link: https://www.colorado.edu/graduateschool/content/masters-thesis-plan-form This form should be submitted as early as possible in the graduate career and at the latest it should be submitted by the deadline to graduate posted for the semester in which the student plans to graduate.
Candidacy application : The Candidacy Application is a form required by the Graduate School before you can take your final exam (which, for thesis writers, is the thesis defense). It is due very near the beginning of the semester in which you expect to take the exam. The candidacy form must be completed before the thesis defense and approved by the Graduate School at that time.
- Comprehensive exam : Starting July 2024, students will have the option to either write an MA thesis or take the comprehensive exam in order to complete the MA degree requirements. Students who pass the thesis defense are not required to take the written comprehensive exam.
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Recent BA Theses
Since 2008, undergraduate theses submitted by B.A. and B.S. recipients at the university are published online in the OSU KnowledgeBank Collection of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Theses and Honors Research Theses . This page is currently under construction. When it is finished, it will list each of the theses submitted by recipients of the B.A. in Linguistics to the KnowledgeBank Collection, along with a link to the DOI and information about what the B.A. recipient did with the degree.
Michael Sullivan
A Nondeterministically Enumerated Categorial Grammar analysis of Croatian and English passive constructions. Advisors: Bob Levine and Andrea Sims
Michelle McKenzie
Effects of relative frequency on morphological processing in Russian and English. Advisor: Andrea Sims
Bethany Toma
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Right Dislocation: Odd thing, that Advisors: Judith Tonhauser and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Megan Dailey
Dialect Classification and Speech Intelligibility in Noise Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
Alyssa Nelson
Comparison of vowel acoustics in children from the Northern, Midland, and Southern regions of the United States Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
Erin Walpole
Free-classification of American dialects in three conditions: natural, monotonized, and low-pass filtered speech Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
Daven Hobbs
Dravidian’s influence on Indo-Aryan: The case of the dative-subject construction Advisors: Brian Joseph and Don Winford
Shannon Melvin
Gender variation in creaky voice and fundamental frequency Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
Christine Prechtel
Effects of gender and regional dialect on uptalk in the American Midwest Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
Erin Luthern
Variation in glottalization at prosodic boundaries in clear and plain lab speech Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
The homophone dffect in Mandarin word recognition Advisors: Kiwako Ito and Shari Speer
Vicki Lynn Krebs
An articulatory and acoustic description of word initial and word medial fricatives and approximants in Mangetti Dune !Xung Advisor: Amanda Miller
Effects of Regional Dialect on Word-Final Consonant Voicing Advisor: Cynthia Clopper
Mary Kathryn Bauer
Twang and slang: Regional Origin and Perceptual Dialectology in Ohio Advisor: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
Amber Torelli
Perceptual Dialectology in Ohio Advisor: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
Kristen Scudieri
On the perception of /s/ and /ʃ/: considering the effects of phonotactics Advisors: Elizabeth Hume and Cynthia Clopper
Chanelle Mays
Gender differences in Japanese and English "s" versus "sh" Advisor: Mary Beckman
Extending Phone Prediction Models of Word Segmentation to a More Realistic Representation of Prosody Committee: Chris Brew (advisor), Mary Beckman, and Eric Fosler-Lussier John Pate also received an MA from our Linguistics program before going on to earn a PhD at the University of Edinburgh
Terrin Tamati
Effects of dialect and talker variability on lexical recognition memory Advisor: Cynthia Clopper After earning her BA, Terrin Tamati entered the doctoral program at Indiana University
Differential Object Marking in Paraguayan Guaraní Advisor: Peter Culicover and Judith Tonhauser After earning his MA in linguistics, Cory Shain studied French, Spanish, and cognitive modeling before returning to OSU in 2016 to enter the doctoral program in Linguistics.
Ross Metusalem
The Role of Pitch Accent in Discourse Construction Advisor: Kiwako Ito Ross Metusalem also received an MA from our Linguistics program before becoming a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego
Erika Colijn
Word Order in Paraguayan Guaraní Advisor: Judith Tonhauser
Jon Stevens
The Old English Demonstrative: A Synchronic and Diachronic Investigation Advisors: Brian Joseph and Craige Roberts Jon Stevens also received an MA from our Linguistics program before going on to earn his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania
Nadia El-Yousseph
Sex and Size: The Influence of Grammatical Gender on Object Perception in English and German Advisors: Kathryn Corl and Shari Speer
Katherine Woznicki
An Acoustic Analysis of Word Prosody in Ljubljana Slovene Advisor: Mary Beckman
Thesis Middle High German Intensifiers
Reason: Publishing.
until file(s) become available
TTHE SYSTEM OF GERMAN INTENSIFIERS IN A CORPUS OF MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN
The present thesis presents a study conducted using corpus linguistics and variationist methods in order to explore the system of intensifiers in a corpus of Middle High German. The data consisted of a sample of adjectives from different texts from the Middle High German period (1050-1350). The study of intensifiers (e.g. sehr ‘ very ’, wirkick ‘ really ’, ganz ‘ quite ’ ) has been a topic of much discussion, mainly in English. On the contrary, there is little research on the system of German intensifiers (e.g. sehr, wirklich, ganz ). The analysis of data resulted in amplifiers being the most frequent type of intensifiers. Besides the thesis drew the distribution of the most frequent variants found in the sample, and the overall occurrence of intensifiers among different text types. Furthermore, the results suggest that the rate of intensification is relatively low and remains low throughout most of the Middle High German period, but is higher in courtly texts and religious legends than in other types of texts. These findings were comparable to the previous research done, suggesting that intensification of adjectives in German behaved similarly to what have been observed in English.
Degree Type
- Master of Arts
- Linguistics
Campus location
- West Lafayette
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Additional committee member 2, additional committee member 3, usage metrics.
- Corpus linguistics
- Historical, comparative and typological linguistics
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Theses/Dissertations from 2021. PDF. Trademarks and Genericide: A Corpus and Experimental Approach to Understanding the Semantic Status of Trademarks, Richard B. Bevan. PDF. First and Second Language Use of Case, Aspect, and Tense in Finnish and English, Torin Kelley. PDF. Lexical Aspect in-sha Verb Chains in Pastaza Kichwa, Azya Dawn Ladd.
A linguistics thesis is an original research project undertaken during your senior year at Harvard College . You will conduct research into past literature on your topic, con-duct analysis of relevant data (including designing and running an experiment, where
This is a selection of some of the more recent theses from the department of Linguistics and English Language. ... This thesis examines tonal phonology across varieties of Dinka (West Nilotic, South Sudan), a typologically unusual language. The sound system—particularly the suprasegmentals—of Dinka is highly complex; the language has ...
Computational Linguistics: Glenn C Slayden. "Array TFS storage for unification grammars." Master's Thesis. U of Washington, 2012. Graduate, Masters Theses: Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Grammar, Syntax: Francesca Gola. "An analysis of translation divergence patterns using PanLex translation pairs." MS Thesis. U of Washington, 2012.
Dissertations from 2021. Shifting the Perspectival Landscape: Methods for Encoding, Identifying, and Selecting Perspectives, Carolyn Jane Anderson, Linguistics. There and Gone Again: Syntactic Structure In Memory, Caroline Andrews, Linguistics. The Event Structure of Attitudes, Deniz Özyıldız, Linguistics.
Theses/Dissertations from 2003. The Acquisition of a Stage Dialect, Nathaniel George Halloran. Self-perceptions of non-native English speaking teachers of English as a second language, Kathryn Ann Long. The Development of Language Choice in a German Immersion School, Miranda Kussmaul Novash.
Recent PhD Dissertations. DeLoge, Alana Nicole (2022) Quechua Ethnolinguistic Vitality: A Perspective on and from Health . Advisor: Shelome Gooden. Naismith, Benjamin S (2022) Examiner judgments of collocational proficiency in L2 English learners' writing . Neumann, Farrah (2021) When Phonological Systems Collide: The Role of the Lexicon in ...
Kallay, Jeffrey (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08) The study that is the focus of this dissertation had 2 primary goals: 1) quantify systematic physiological, linguistic and cognitive effects on pausing in narrative speech; 2) formalize a preliminary model of pausing ...
Serial verb constructions and the linker in Nuuchahnulth. PhD thesis, University of Washington. Graduate, Dissertations: American Indian/Native American, Computational Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax: Chak-Lam Colum Yip. "Evidence for DP in Chinese from Reduplicative Classifiers and DP-Internal Structural Phenomena." Diss. U of Washington, 2018.
A thesis on eh. Sándi, Gábor (MA) The phonology of the dialects of England. Stevenson, Roberta C. (MA) The pronunciation of English in British Columbia : an analysis of the responses to the phonological section of the Linguistic Survey of B. C., Postal Questionnaire (PQ3) Wigod, Rebecca (MA) The matter of metaphor and its importance for ...
The Semantics of Measurement . Scontras, Gregory Charles (2014-10-21) This thesis examines linguistic phenomena that implicate measurement in the nominal domain. The first is morphological number, as in one book vs. two books. Intuitively, the contrast between singular and plural forms of ...
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Since 1999, most theses and dissertations submitted by graduate students at the university are published online in the UGA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Database (ETD). This page is a list of recent theses and dissertations produced by graduates of the University of Georgia M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Linguistics, with a link to the UGA ETD page for the pdf file.
The central goal of this thesis is to bridge the divide between theoretical linguistics—the scien-tific inquiry of language—and applied data-driven statistical language processing, to provide deeper insight into data and to build more powerful, robust models. To corroborate the practi-
The thesis begins with a chapter on the results of a survey we concluded, followed by the historic relationship between translation studies and linguistics. The thesis first examines theories and ...
Browse By. This collection contains a selection of recent Masters theses from the department of Linguistics and English Language. Please note that only the Title and Abstract will be available for dissertations from the current academic year. All other content from previous years is available on an Open Access basis.
LINGUISTICS THESIS OR. DISSERT A TION. SHAIT AN ALEXAN DRA. BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. ABSTRA CT WRITING: INTR ODUCTION. • TYPE OF THE CONTENT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE THESIS ABSTRACT ...
ScholarWorks at Georgia State University includes Doctoral Dissertations contributed by students of the Department of Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language at Georgia State University. The institutional repository is administered by the Georgia State University Library in cooperation with individual departments and academic units of the University.
Phonetic Variations of Coronals in English Infant-directed Speech: A Large-Scale Corpus Analysis. Yang. Wang. 2021. Regular languages extended with reduplication: formal models, proofs and illustrations. Lily. Xu. 2021. Predicting (the unpredictable) vowel distributions in Egyptian Arabic verbs: a lexicon study.
Follow. Theses from 2023 PDF. The "Messy Middle": A Framework for Analyzing Raciolinguistic Inequity, Casey Erin Anthony. PDF. Japanese Reading Japlish: High School Students Study Their Own Fashion Linguistic Landscape, Gabriel Frost Johnson. Theses from 2021 PDF
Since 2009, most theses submitted by M.A. and M.S. recipients at the university are published online at the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center (EDT). This page lists theses submitted by recipients of the M.A. in Linguistics, beginning with the more recent theses which are avalable through EDT. We are currently in the process of extending the list back to the first OSU M.A.
An MA thesis represents an original investigation into a problem or a research project that contributes new knowledge to the field. A thesis is NOT required in our MA program. Moreover, the Linguistics department requires both a comprehensive examination and an oral thesis-defense exam for thesis writers. So a thesis is not a way to evade the ...
Since 2008, undergraduate theses submitted by B.A. and B.S. recipients at the university are published online in the OSU KnowledgeBank Collection of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Theses and Honors Research Theses. This page is currently under construction. When it is finished, it will list each of the theses submitted by recipients of the B.A. in Linguistics to the KnowledgeBank ...
The present thesis presents a study conducted using corpus linguistics and variationist methods in order to explore the system of intensifiers in a corpus of Middle High German. The data consisted of a sample of adjectives from different texts from the Middle High German period (1050-1350). The study of intensifiers (e.g. sehr 'very', wirkick 'really', ganz 'quite') has been a ...
Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics, Thesis. At the MA level, the concentration in RWL is designed to foster innovative and imaginative as well as rigorous scholarship and teaching. To that end, the core curriculum invites students to work across a broad range of RWL areas, including the history of rhetoric, theories of rhetoric and writing ...