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Ecke, Peter 1964. "Cross-language studies of lexical retrieval: Tip-of-the-tongue states in first and foreign languages." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282099.

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This dissertation investigates "tip-of-the-tongue" states (TOTs) in native speakers of English, Russian, and Spanish, studying foreign languages, and in fluent Spanish-English bilinguals. Study (1) explored retrospective reports of subjects' every-day experiences with TOTs. Study (2) investigated TOTs (fragmentary information, associated words, resolution type) that were recorded in structured diaries over a four-week period. Experimental study (3) examined TOTs elicited through definition and translation primes in Spanish-English bilinguals in the U.S., and speakers of Spanish in Mexico. Stud

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Alexandrova, Galina M. "Small clauses in modern Bulgarian." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9640.

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The present thesis entitled Small Clauses in Modern Bulgarian discusses representatives of the "small clause" (SC) construction in a Slavic language that has not been sufficiently studied by current linguistic theory. The thesis is organized as follows: Chapter 1. SCs according to Existing Analyses. Chapter 2. Modern Bulgarian Small Clauses: the Data. Chapter 3. Modern Bulgarian with AP, NP, and PP Predicates. Chapter 4. Modern Bulgarian Adjunct Participial SCs. Chapter 5. Summary and Conclusions. Chapter 1 is a review of the relevant literature on SCs. It summarizes analyses arguing against t

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Fultz, Audrey Liljestrand. "Prosody in lexical and syntactic disambiguation in English-French interlanguage." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3380078.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of French & Italian Studies, 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 12, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4660. Adviser: Laurent P. Dekydtspotter.

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Méndez, Vallejo Dunia Catalina. "Focalizing ser ('to be') in Colombian Spanish." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3386705.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Linguistics and the Spanish and Portuguese Dept., 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4656. Adviser: Yoshihisa Kitagawa.

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Woolsey, Daniel S. "Second language acquisition of the Spanish verb estar with adjectives an exploration of contexts of comparison and immediate experience /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215174.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Language Education, 2006.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1317. Advisers: Martha Nyikos; Kimberly Geeslin. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 14, 2007)."

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Roehrs, Dorian. "The morpho-syntax of the Germanic noun phrase determiners move into the determiner phrase /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3219911.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Depts. of Germanic Studies and Linguistics, 2006.<br>"Title from dissertation home page (viewed, June 26, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2141. Advisers: Rex A. Sprouse; Steven Franks.

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File-Muriel, Richard J. "The role of lexical frequency and phonetic context in the weakening of syllable-final lexical /s/ in the Spanish of Barranquilla, Colombia." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278205.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3824. Adviser: Joseph Clancy Clements. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 7, 2008).

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Yang, Jun. "The acquisition of temporality by adult second language learners of Chinese." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280075.

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This dissertation is about the acquisition of temporality in the Chinese language by adult native English speakers. The major objective is to chart the course of development of temporality by adult English-speaking learners of Chinese and explore the universals in the acquisition of temporality. The dataset used for this dissertation study consists of the Pear Story narratives produced by twenty native speakers of Chinese and the Pear Story narratives produced by twenty-one English-speaking adult second language learners of Chinese, grouped into three different proficiency levels--the low, the

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Thibeau, Tully Jude. "English prepositions in phrasal verbs: A study in second language acquisition." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284018.

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This study examines whether grammar instruction treatment, input processing, facilitates in learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) a distinction among sets of phrasal verbs containing prepositions. Input processing emphasizes difficult grammatical forms and provides a model for the behavior of the varying roles of phrasal verb prepositions. Such instruction follows three steps: (i) explaining the relation between a grammatical form and its meaning, (ii) informing learners of language processes that adversely influence the form-meaning relation, and (iii) implementing "structured input"

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Zhu, Shensheng 1952. "A dynamic semantic theory of Chinese anaphora." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288751.

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The distribution and reference of Chinese anaphors are not predetermined by their inherent binding features or by a set of rules from one particular module; rather they are determined by the discourse context in which the anaphor in question occurs. The two most important parameters of discourse context are the discourse topic NP and discourse relations. The discourse topic NP is a unique discourse entity in that it is the only accessible antecedent for such anaphors as exempt reflexives, null subjects and null objects. A discourse topic NP derives its discourse dynamics (i.e., its ability to

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Kataoka, Kuniyoshi 1960. "The vertical experience in English and Japanese spatial discourse." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288887.

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The importance of 'deixis' is that it is anchored to the immediate interactive context and resists a pre-given formulation of truth-value without taking into account such factors as when, where, to whom and even how it is said. This fact serves as an acute reminder for linguists that language use fundamentally concerns face-to-face communication and is not solely based upon the biological construals of the linguistic faculty. In this study, I will exclusively focus on spatial deixis and also closely examine spatial expressions such as coordinate terms, locative phrases, and (deictic) motion ve

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Fitzgerald, Colleen Miriam 1969. "O'odham rhythms." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288889.

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Morphology and syllable weight have both been shown to affect stress patterns, but these effects are analyzed in different ways. The theoretical goal of this dissertation is to propose a Optimality Theoretic model to account for how morphology influences stress, and to do this in a way that parallels the influence of weight upon stress. Prince (1990) lays out the W scEIGHT- scTO-S scTRESS P scRINCIPLE, formalizing the principle by which heavy syllables attract stress in quantity-sensitive systems. I argue for the M scORPHEME- scTO-S scTRESS P scRINCIPLE, a constraint that forces morphemes to a

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Fonseca-Greber, Bonnibeth Beale. "The change from pronoun to clitic to prefix and the rise of null subjects in spoken Swiss French." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289206.

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This dissertation explores a typological puzzle within the Romance language family: How is it that French could have evolved so divergently from the rest of the family that it has apparently lost two of the most characteristic features of Romance languages, i.e., (1) a highly inflected verb paradigm and (2) optional nominal and pronominal subjects? Using a ±60,000-word corpus of Everyday Spoken Swiss French (ESSF), comprising 14 educated, middle-class speakers conversing with family and friends, I examine the subject clitics and subject NPs from the theoretical framework of grammaticalization,

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Williams, Krista. "The lexicographic treatment of color terms." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3624240.

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<p> This dissertation explores the main question, "What are the issues involved in the definition and translation of color terms in dictionaries?" To answer this question, I examined color term definitions in monolingual dictionaries of French and English, and color term translations in bilingual dictionaries of French paired with nine languages. From this data, I made several discoveries. First, I created a typology of strategies used to define color terms that includes three strategies: Defining with Reference to the Spectrum of Visible Light, Defining with Reference to Relationship with Oth

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Lee, Dongmyung. "The loanword tonology of South Kyungsang Korean." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3344584.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Linguistics, 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 5, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0551. Adviser: Stuart Davis.

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Lindner, Tamara. "Attitudes toward Cajun French and international French in South Louisiana a study of high school students /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3344586.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of French and Italian, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 5, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0553. Advisers: Albert Valdman; Kevin J. Rottet.

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Thompson, Mikael Adrian. "A study of the analogical extension of the Mongolian hidden-n declension in colloquial standard Khalkha." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3344605.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Linguistics, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 6, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0555. Adviser: Gyorgy Kara.

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Kabano, Alphonse. "Le pronom personnel sujet de la troisième personne: Grammaticalisation, réanalyse et variation dans le parler d'Ottawa-Hull." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29121.

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L'usage du pronom personnel (PP) en contexte de redoublement du sujet est une caractéristique marquante du français parlé (canadien), selon nombre d'études (Auger 1991, 1993, 1995; Nadasdi 1995, 2000; King & Nadasdi 1995, Ossipov 1997, Heap 2000, entre autres). Des énoncés du type Les enfants ils en ont trop où le PP est variablement utilisé représenteraient une structure appelée tôt ou tard à se généraliser (Auger 1998). Théoriquement, cette généralisation serait l'une des manifestations d'une tendance, pour le français, à passer au statut de langue à sujet nul et/ou alors a prédominance topi

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Krell, Kathrin Susanne. "Modern Indo-European homeland hypotheses: A critical examination of linguistic arguments." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6792.

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Kato, Akiko. "Interlanguage variation in pitch and forms of English negatives: The case of Japanese speakers of English." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289766.

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This study investigates systematic L2 variation in the level of prosody through analysis on six Japanese advanced ESL speakers' variable use of pitch prominence/non-prominence on and the contraction forms of not negatives (e.g., it isn't, it's not, it is not). Variable use of pitch and the forms of negatives was analyzed in terms of sociolinguistic strategies that fluent English L2 speakers should use to differentiate emphasis on negatives according to social contexts. The study examined the effects of 16 linguistic and sociolinguistic variables/factors on the L2 negative variation, and compa

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Pan, Junlin 1957. "Occurrence/nonoccurrence, distribution, and interpretation of zero anaphora in Chinese conversational discourse." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282125.

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This study investigates the occurrence/nonoccurrence, distribution, and interpretation of zero anaphora (ZA) in Chinese conversational discourse. It explores three major questions: (1) what factors account for the occurrence of ZA, and the nonoccurrence of ZA in potential positions; (2) whether there are differences in occurrence and nonoccurrence by genre and style; and (3) what linguistic research approaches are most appropriate for the analysis of ZA in Chinese. The database consists of complete dialogues from the two-hour Chinese film, Li, Shuang-shuang, and an uninterrupted one-hour recor

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Vahedi-Langrudi, Mohammad-Mehdi. "The syntax, semantics and argument structure of complex predicates in modern Farsi." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9801.

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This thesis studies the argument structure and formation of the very productive and frequent complex verbal structures in Modern Farsi (MF), i.e., Persian, known as compound verbs or Complex Predicates (CP). CPs are complex verbal structures made up of a preverbal element (PV) and a verb. The verbal element is normally a light, bleached, and/or backgrounded verb (LV). The PVs may belong to any of the lexical categories nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, or to prepositional phrases (PP). The combinations of PVs and LVs form single semantic and syntactic verbal predicates that constitute

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Sapp, Christopher D. "Verb order in subordinate clauses from Early New High German to Modern German." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3232562.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2006.<br>"Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 9, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2963. Adviser: Rex A. Sprouse.

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Barra, Melissa Ann. "Teaching Spanish slang, familiar language, and electronic language in the classroom /." Click here to view full-text, 2007. http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/ipp_collection/12/.

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Shibata, Miki. "Comparing lexical aspect and narrative discourse in second language learners' tense-aspect morphology: A cross sectional study of Japanese as a second language." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284122.

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The current study has attempted to answer the question whether there is an interaction between the Aspect Hypothesis and the Discourse Hypothesis by investigating the use of Japanese tense-aspect morphology by native speakers of English learning Japanese as L2. These two hypotheses were argued for independently in previous studies, but never consolidated to account for the distributional pattern of L2 tense-aspect morphology. The Aspect Hypothesis claims that the L1 and L2 learners initially mark lexical aspect of the verbs with tense-aspect morphology; they tend to associate past with achieve

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Sims, Andrea D. "Minding the gaps inflectional defectiveness in a paradigmatic theory /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1157550938.

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Ikawa, Hisako. "Events and anaphoric processes." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288990.

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This dissertation deals with the cognitive act of perception and the linguistic form of perceptual reports, and the linguistic mechanism of anaphoric processes involved in the semantics of atomic "events" in human language. It has been claimed that the notion of "events" should be incorporated into formal grammar. Adopting this insight, our main concern in the present thesis is how "events" are realized in syntactic and semantic structures. I show that Japanese is a suitable language to demonstrate that an "event" is a fundamental notion of human thought and language. I follow Davidson's (1967

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Okuyama, Yoshiko. "Computer-assisted Japanese vocabulary learning: The choice of script in CALL." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284198.

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Despite the rapid growth of software use in foreign language education, many language-specific issues in computer-mediated instruction have not been investigated in research. One example is L2 orthography in CALL. When the target language is a non-alphabetic type, such as Japanese, decoding the unfamiliar script becomes a difficult task. Although the type of current Japanese language software ranges from immersion to translation-mediated, the method for script presentation is not spelled out with a clear pedagogical principle. Furthermore, due to the lack of empirical evidence, we have yet to

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Liontas, John Ioannis. "Developing a pragmatic methodology of idiomaticity: The comprehension and interpretation of SL vivid phrasal idioms during reading." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284736.

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This study aimed to achieve three goals. First, it investigated the notion that the process of L2 idiom comprehension and interpretation is not the same as that for L1 comprehension, that is there are some fundamentally different ways in which second language (SL) learners grasp idiomatic meaning of Vivid Phrasal (VP) Idioms. Second, it researched the notion that the L2 comprehension process of idioms may be universal with regard to Spanish, French, and German. Third, it researched the extent to which SL learners want idioms to be an integral part of their language and culture training. The

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Teller, Matthew Buchanan 1964. "Broken agreement in L2 processing of Spanish." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288926.

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In natural language processing subject-verb agreement sometimes derails yielding ungrammatical sentences such as *The cost of the programs have not yet been estimated. In light of questions concerning the semantic versus syntactic nature of sentence subjects and the interactivity of language processing, researchers have investigated the occurrence and possible causes of erroneous agreement. In complex subject noun phrases such as The cost of the programs, the plurality of the noun in the lower clause has been shown to significantly affect the frequency of subject-verb agreement errors. This e

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Kunschak, Claudia. "Awareness of and attitudes toward variation in L2: Origins, prevalence and implications for second/foreign language teaching." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289947.

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The present study investigated awareness of and attitudes toward language variation among college level learners of German as a foreign language. The first part, language samples of varieties of English and German, was presented to students with Likert-type/Osgood semantic differential response sheets to explore patterns of reactions indicative of students' attitudes. The second part, a questionnaire including demographic items, items on German language background, and special items on language variation in English and German, was designed to examine possible connections between awareness and

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Swanson, Kimberly Anne Bankart. "Acquisition versus suppression of phonological processes in the second language acquisition of French and English." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3243793.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Depts. of French & Italian and Linguistics, 2007.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 17, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-12, Section: A, page: 4529. Advisers: Daniel A. Dinnsen; Albert Valdman.

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Perales, Haya Susana. "La adquisicion de la negacion oracional en ingles por hablantes bilingues de euskeracastellano." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26422.

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This thesis investigates the acquisition of sentential negation in English by three groups of bilingual Basque/Spanish speakers. All groups received instruction for a similar period of time, although they differ as to the age at which they began to learn English: four, eight and ten years respectively. The syntax of sentential negation concerns two main aspects: the nature of negative markers and the position of the negation phrase in the structure of the clause. Both Basque and Spanish have a negative marker that realizes the head of the negation phrase. The negation phrase in these languages

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Kiely, Kristin A. "EL EFECTO DEL GÉNERO DEL HABLANTE EN LA ASPIRACIÓN DE /S/ EN EL ESPAÑOL DE BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1054603256.

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Strolovitch, Devon L. "The 'schizoid' nature of Modern Hebrew linguistics: a contact language in search of a genetic past." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1316528613.

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Starr, James Richard. "A liminal examination of always already meaning within language." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3211.

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This thesis juxtaposes Plato's allegory of the cave with Jacques Derrida's concept of the always already aspect of meaning, a concept derived from Ferdinand de Saussure's work. This theoretical investigation examines the implications of universal Signified forms of word meanings for postmodern composition theory.

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Prucka, Leslie J. "Linguistic, strategies for architectural activities : Wittgenstein, philosophy, and language." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21705.

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Ashby, Wendy. "Authoring the German "other": A semiotic,narrative discourse analysis of the culture box in beginning L2 German textbooks." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280250.

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Recent trends in immigration to the German speaking countries have contributed to a new multi-cultural demographic in the "culture boxes" of L2 German textbooks. A close analysis of their content, however, reveals a racist discourse that promotes and reinforces a power-based, hegemonic majority culture at the expense of minorities, as well as materials that reinforce U.S. American cultural values at the expense of German ones by imagining a community of German speakers that meets U.S. national identity needs. Utilizing tools from the fields of semiotics, critical discourse analysis and cultura

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Li, Yawei. "“Other People’s Children”: Implicit Comparison in Modern Chinese Conversation." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525541941003334.

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Bourke, Marie. "The Flemish university question and the development of a modern Dutch-language culture in Belgium 1890-1914." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304871.

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Wong, Hiu-lam Sally. "The integration of Yue dialect words into modern written Chinese." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37515767.

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Lopez, Alonzo Karen I. "Rhotic production in the Spanish of Bluefields, Nicaragua, a language contact situation." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469104793.

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蔡瑪莉 and Ma-lee Mary Choi. "A study of taboo words in modern Chinese language." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31225858.

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Gwei, G. M. "New models of natural language for consultative computing." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.378986.

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Zewary, Sayed Mustafa. "Visuals in foreign language teaching." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8778.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of Modern Languages<br>Mary T. Copple<br>This study investigates the effectiveness of visuals in the language classroom. Two types of visual aids commonly used in the language classroom, video and still pictures, are used to elicit narratives from L2 English speakers, and these narratives are subsequently compared. The data come from eleven international students from a university English Language Program, who voluntarily participated in two separate 15-minute interviews. In each interview session, they were shown either a series of pictures or a video, both depic

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Belz, Anja. "Computational learning of finite-state models for natural language processing." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311331.

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Andersson, Linus. "Modern semiotics in an internet mediated world." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-27974.

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English has become the dominant language for internet users throughout the world and the internet has had its own impact on the English language. The main aim for this essay is to compare and contrast different online discussion forums and other related online discourses in order to show how meaning is created and to identify any differences that may exist depending on the forum. To do this, I have chosen specific features of language and analyzed their use in a number of different online sources. The research has shown that most of the language features commonly used in everyday speech are al

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Sweeney, Philip John. "Taiwanese Language Medical School Curriculum: A Case Study of Symbolic Resistance Through The Promotion of Alternative Literacy and Language Domain Norms." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/938.

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In contemporary Taiwan, Mandarin language proficiency and literacy in Han characters are not only key skills needed for success in academic institutions and employment markets, but they also carry meaning as symbolic markers of national and supranational Chinese identity. This study examines how Taiwanese-language medical studies curriculum planners are promoting alternative linguistic practices as a means of resisting the influence of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan and striving to replace it with a rival Taiwanese nationalism. I conducted research for this study during the 2010-2011 school yea

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Watson, Robin Montgomery. "Epicene Pronoun Use in Modern American English." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2358.

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Traditional prescriptive grammar for English states that the epicene or gender neutral pronoun for third person singular use is he. Research into speaker perceptions has clearly demonstrated that he is not perceived as neutral. Research has also shown traditionally proscribed epicene pronouns such as he or she and singular they to be commonly used, despite the long-standing proscriptions against them. The author examines the endurance of such proscribed options through the lens of markedness theory, considering the impact of cultural values on speakers' epicene pronoun choices. Gender in langu

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Shores, Lauren JoAnn. "Is American English Dead? A Linguistic and Editorial Look at Modern Language." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/321957.

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