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Henri, Fabiola. "A constraint-based approach to verbal constructions in Mauritian : Morphological, syntactic and discourse-based aspects." Paris 7, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA070003.

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Dans cette thèse, nous examinons les aspects morphologiques, syntaxiques et discursives liés au phénomène d'alternance de forme verbale en mauricien. Je démontre que contrairement à ce qui semble être une alternance conditionnée phonologiquement, l'alternance Forme Courte/Forme Longue, héritée sans doute du système flexionnelle du français, est corrélée et à la structure argumentale du verbe et à des phénomènes discursifs. Outre cette distinction morphomique au niveau de leur distribution, les deux formes verbales présentent un système flexionnel plus ou moins complexe, apportant ainsi de nouv
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Hughes, Michael. "Morphological faithfulness to syntactic representations /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3099922.

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Rubio, Alcalá Carlos. "Syntactic constraints on topicalization phenomena." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145399.

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Esta tesis es un estudio de las condiciones en las cuales la Clitic Left Dislocation, un tipo de topicalización, puede violar restricciones de isla del tipo fuerte en diferentes lenguas románicas. En la caracterización clásica de Cinque (1990), los Tópicos están descritos como insensibles a las restricciones de localidad débiles (las islas-Q, por ejemplo) pero sensibles a las islas de tipo fuerte (islas de sujeto, de adjunto y de sintagma nominal complejo). Sin embargo, los hechos empíricos muestran cómo en las circunstancias apropiadas, tales islas también se pueden violar mediante la Clitic
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Tait, Mary Esther. "The syntactic projection of morphological categories." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20236.

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In this thesis I set out to test three hypotheses about the organization of the Grammar; (1) That the grammar can be given a declarative interpretation, and thus no extrinsic ordering or rules is available, and that syntactic structures have a compositional semantics; (2) That all transparent concatenation results from operations of the rules of syntax; and (3) That all syntactic projections must be phonetically visible. Further, I have assumed that the relationship between the lexicon and syntactic representations is monotonic. In testing these hypotheses I develop an underspecified tree repr
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Pearlmutter, Neal Jay. "Ambiguity resolution and constraints on syntactic processing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12488.

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Ong, Roberto K. "Morphological and syntactic deficits in Chinese aphasic patients." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=120146.

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Note:<br>Grammatical features of Chinese identified as fonnal equivalents to those of Western languages reported to be susceptible to agrammatic deficits were incorporated in a test battery administered to fourteen Chinese.!speaking aphasics in 1987. Results show selective omission of closed-class items in repetition tasks as well as in spontaneous speech by some patients, errors arising from either disregard or misconstrual of such items in their grammaticality judgments, and a tendency to misinterpret sentences other than ones in the canonical SVO word order. Repetition impairment appears to
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Kibogoya, Mushumbusi Adolf. "Kiswahili/English code-switching : some morphological and syntactic aspects." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242820.

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Müller, Thomas. "General methods for fine-grained morphological and syntactic disambiguation." Diss., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-182637.

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We present methods for improved handling of morphologically rich languages (MRLS) where we define MRLS as languages that are morphologically more complex than English. Standard algorithms for language modeling, tagging and parsing have problems with the productive nature of such languages. Consider for example the possible forms of a typical English verb like work that generally has four four different forms: work, works, working and worked. Its Spanish counterpart trabajar has 6 different forms in present tense: trabajo, trabajas, trabaja, trabajamos, trabajáis and trabajan and
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Bruno, Ana Carla. "Waimiri Atroari grammar: Some phonological, morphological, and syntactic aspects." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280345.

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The Waimiri Atroari people, who call themselves kinja 'people' and whose language belongs to the Carib family, live today in an area in the northern part of the State of Amazonas and in the southern part of the State of Roraima. Like many other languages of the Carib family, Waimiri Atroari is a chronically underdescribed language. There are few linguistics studies about Waimiri Atroari, most of them being phonological sketches (Hill and Hill 1985; and Lacerda 1991, 1996). Taking this situation into consideration, this dissertation intends to describe some phonological, morphological, and synt
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Shen, Mo. "Exploiting Vocabulary, Morphological, and Subtree Knowledge to Improve Chinese Syntactic Analysis." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/215675.

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In reference to IEEE copyrighted material which is used with permission in this thesis, the IEEE does not endorse any of Kyoto University's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. If interested in reprinting/republishing IEEE copyrighted material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution, please go to http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/rights_link.html to learn how to obtain a License from RightsLink.<br>Kyoto University (京都大学)<br>0048<br>新制・課程博士<br>博士(情報学)<br>甲第198
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Landa, Miren Alazne. "Syntactic, morphological and lexical mechanisms used to change focus in Basque." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/539803.

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This thesis describes the expression of focus in Basque declarative sentences through the use of morphological, lexical and syntactic devices. It analyzes the different degrees of emphasis that can be provided by the combination of these three types of mechanisms, and the interaction ofthe expression of focus with the expression of the new/given information distinction.This study shows that constituents containing background information normally occur either before the focused element or after the verb, and that topics occur in sentence initial position. Elements whose information is non-contr
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Williams, Philip James. "Unification-based constraints for statistical machine translation." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9971.

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Morphology and syntax have both received attention in statistical machine translation research, but they are usually treated independently and the historical emphasis on translation into English has meant that many morphosyntactic issues remain under-researched. Languages with richer morphologies pose additional problems and conventional approaches tend to perform poorly when either source or target language has rich morphology. In both computational and theoretical linguistics, feature structures together with the associated operation of unification have proven a powerful tool for modelling m
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Kneile, Lynn A. "The Effect of Morphological and Syntactic Knowledge on Incidental Derived Word Learning." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1387454514.

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Simard, Michel. "Integration of finite-state morphological models to top-down syntactic parsers in prolog." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59440.

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Finite-state morphological models are formalisms for describing the set of valid word-forms of a natural language. Being well-suited for computer implementations, they have typically been used for creating systems that efficiently recognize and generate isolated word-forms. DCGs (Definite-clause Grammars) on the other hand, like many other syntactic formalisms closely connected with the programming language Prolog, are less suitable for describing morphological and orthographical phenomena (or phonological phenomena, in speech). This thesis describes a general method for combining the DCG synt
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Lee, Jeongrae. "The Korean Internally-Headed Relative Clause Construction: Its Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Aspects." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193783.

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This dissertation investigates the morpho-syntactic and semantic aspects of the Korean IHRC (internally-headed relative clause) construction, which has its semantic head within the relative clause, the relative clause being followed by the morpheme kes.As for the status of kes, I argue it is a pronoun, positioned under D or N, depending on whether kes stands alone or is modified by a demonstrative. In either case, the IHRC receives the same semantic interpretation as non-restrictive relative clause.I argue the relative clause contains a full clause including TP, exhibiting a full range of tens
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Bassiouney, Reem. "Functions of code switching in Egypt (evidence from monologues in the 1990s)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248835.

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Müller, Thomas [Verfasser], and Hinrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Schütze. "General methods for fine-grained morphological and syntactic disambiguation / Thomas Müller. Betreuer: Hinrich Schütze." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1072038455/34.

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Cornillon, Jeanne. "On interpretive constraints and expletives : the case of the standard French 'ne' element." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1998. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28500/.

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This thesis studies the particle ne in Standard French as it appears in the ne...pas/personne/rien and the ne...queXP structures. Based on the assumptions of a syntactic theory as developed in the Principles and Parameters, the thesis makes the following main claims: 1. Ne is an expletive. Its function is to satisfy a structural requirement on both the expression of sentence negation and association with focus. It is semantically defective, but it constrains the interpretation of the associate term it combines with (scope-marker function). 2. Some cross linguistic variations in the expression
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Cunnings, Ian. "English word formation : morphological constraints and their time-course during processing." Thesis, University of Essex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486733.

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The plurals-inside-compounds effect has been one of the most widely studied morphological phenomena in the psycholinguistics literature. Research has shown that there is both a restriction against regular but not irregular plurals inside compounds (*rats eater versus mice eater), and a general preference for non-heads to be singular (?mice eater versus mouse eater). The general preference for singular non-heads has been derived from a semantic constraint against non-heads marked for plural number semantics (Haskell, MacDonald & Seidenberg 2003),whereas the avoidance of regular plurals results
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Miranda, Edmund Richard. "Morphological constraints on life history evolution in Poecilia reticulata (Cyprinodontiformes: poeciliinae)." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1722.

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Stathopoulou, Nikolitsa. "The linguistic profile of Greek individuals with Down Syndrome : evidence from syntactic and morphological phenomena." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502590.

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This thesis aims to contribute to cross-linguistic research in the area of neurodevelopmental disorders by investigating the morphosyntactic abilities of Greek-speaking adolescents with Down Syndrome (henceforth DS). DS is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder and is considered the main genetic cause of mental retardation (Hagerman, 1999). Language development is a special challenge for people with DS since it is regarded to be relatively more impaired that other cognitive functions (Lenneberg, 1967). In addition, some aspects of language are more affected than others, with grammar more
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Ssempuuma, Jude [Herausgeber]. "Morphological and Syntactic Feature Analysis of Ugandan English : Influence from Luganda, Runyankole-Rukiga, and Acholi-Lango." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2018. http://d-nb.info/118148801X/34.

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辛尚泰 and Sheung-tai San. "A study of the dimensions of morphological knowledge and their lexico-syntactic implications for second language proficiency." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B25314105.

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Prior, Martin Hugh. "Syntactic universals and semantic constraints : statistical and other comparative evidence from the study of verbs and adjectives." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1985. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28975/.

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This study is concerned with the examination of word-order universals and the attempt to explain the diverse statistical patterns by means of a variety of semantic structures. Central to my study is a critique (a) of Hawkins's approach, the Universal Consistency Hypothesis, and its concentration upon apparently exceptionless universals, and (b) the Bartsch-Vennemann approach which breaks down structures generally into OPerator-Operand pairs. In Part I, I introduce a geographically and genetically representative sample of 75 languages, and show that not only are violations to be found to Hawkin
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Feldman, Anna. "Portable language technology: a resource-light approach to morpho-syntactic taggin." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1153344391.

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Schwarz, Anne. "The particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba." Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1944/.

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The paper investigates focus marking devices in the scarcely documented North-Ghanaian Gur language Konkomba. The two particles lé and lá occur under specific focus conditions and are therefore regarded as focus markers in the sparse literature. Comparing the distribution and obligatoriness of both alleged focus markers however, I show that one of the particles, lé, is better analyzed as a connective particle, i.e. as a syntactic rather than as a genuine pragmatic marker, and that comparable syntactic focus marking strategies for sentence-initial constituents are also known from related langua
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Al-Hamad, M. M. "Morphological and syntactic properties in the acquisition of Arabic as a second language : implications for the theory of SLA and for language teaching." Thesis, University of Essex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272523.

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Bégin, Mathieu. "Are quantitative genetic constraints to morphological evolution important on an evolutionary time scale? an empirical investigation in field crickets." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84471.

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The evolutionary importance of genetic constraints has always been recognized by biologists, but very little data is available to quantitatively assess the role of constraints in shaping the biology of organisms. The field of quantitative genetics provides the tools necessary to study evolutionary constraints, mainly through the estimation of the matrix of additive genetic variance and covariance (the G matrix). The main goals of this Ph.D. dissertation were to study the persistence of constraints across environments and across species, to explore the consequences of constraints on spec
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Ssempuuma, Jude [Verfasser], Christiane [Gutachter] Meierkord, and Ulrike [Gutachter] Gut. "Morphological and syntactic feature analysis of Ugandan english : influence from Luganda, Runyankole-Rukiga, and Acholi-Lango / Jude Ssempuuma ; Gutachter: Christiane Meierkord, Ulrike Gut ; Fakultät für Philologie." Bochum : Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1182682553/34.

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Simon, Monique Nouailhetas. "Integração morfológica e modularidade em crânios das espécies do grupo Rhinella granulosa." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/41/41131/tde-18052016-095323/.

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Os conceitos e métodos provindos das teorias de integração morfológica e de genética quantitativa formam o arcabouço teórico para o estudo da evolução de estruturas complexas, compostas de múltiplos caracteres que interagem entre si. Nesse trabalho, utilizamos o crânio como modelo de estrutura complexa e estudamos sua diversificação nas espécies de sapo do grupo Rhinella granulosa. As perguntas do trabalho foram: (1) A organização da (co)variação é similar entre as espécies?; (2) A organização da (co)variação é modular nas espécies, conforme expectativas baseadas em desenvolvimento ou função?
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Moubarak, Estelle. "Constraints imposed by morphological and biophysical properties of axon and dendrites on the electrical behaviour of rat substantia nigra pars compacta dopaminergic neurons." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0746.

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L’activité électrique des neurones est déterminée par des interactions complexes entre leurs propriétés morphologiques et biophysiques. Les neurones dopaminergiques (DA) de la substance noire compacte (SNc) présentent une caractéristique morphologique peu commune parmi les neurones de mammifères: leur axone émerge fréquemment d’une dendrite à une distance très variable du soma. Malgré cette importante variabilité dans la localisation de l’axone, peu d’articles ont étudié un lien potentiel entre morphologie neuronale et activité électrique dans ces cellules. Dans un premier article, nous avons
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Andreason, Traci Tomi. "Improving Reading Fluency and Comprehension in Intermediate L2 Japanese Learners." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5480.

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This study explores the effects of different methods employed by language teachers, namely assisted repeated reading (Taguchi, Gorsuch, Takayasu-Maass, & Snipp, 2012) and morphological and syntactic explanation (Tong, Deacon, & Cain, 2013), to improve language learners' reading fluency and reading comprehension, respectively. Volunteers from students enrolled in Japanese 301 through 322 classes at Brigham Young University (BYU) participated in this study. The participants (a) submitted a background questionnaire and consent form, (b) attended a one-hour session in the testing lab, and (c) atte
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Савченко, Є. О. "Перекладацький аспект англомовних юридичних текстів". Master's thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2021. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/86642.

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захист англійською мовою<br>У магістерській роботі подано дослідження актуальної наукової проблеми перекладу англомовної юридичної літератури. Аналізується розуміння юридичного дискурсу, досліджуються особливості перекладу текстів юридичного спрямування, а також розглядаються основні аспекти дослідження під кутом лексичного, морфологічного та синтаксичного рівнів мови. Також у роботі з’ясовуються лексико-синтаксичні риси юридичного дискурсу та розкриваються його комунікативні особливості . Мета: дослідити особливості перекладу текстів юридичного спрямування, розглянути основні аспекти дослід
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Chikane, Oglobry Bogopane. "Morphological and syntactic analysis of the Tswana infinitive." 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/20923018.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1989.<br>Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-159).
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Ussery, Cherlon. "Optionality and variability: Syntactic licensing meets morphological spell-out." 2009. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3380035.

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This dissertation explores case and verbal agreement in Icelandic. Case and agreement generally pattern together, but there are exceptional instances in which case and agreement come apart. In Icelandic, verbs agree with Nominative DPs. However, in some constructions, agreement with a Nominative is optional. In the standard account of case and agreement (Chomsky 2000), both types of features are determined simultaneously via the same syntactic operation. The standard theory, therefore, predicts that case and agreement should pattern the same way, and that neither should be optional. Moreover,
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Wang, Hsiu-Ju, and 王秀如. "Turn-talking Through Interruption: Syntactic, Pragmatic, and Social Constraints." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13187412477783923217.

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Esseesy, Mohssen. "Morphological and syntactic features of Arabic numerals as evidence of their diachronic evolution." 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/60361483.html.

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Sears, Karen E. "The role of constraints in the morphological evolution of marsupial shoulder girdles /." 2003. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3097159.

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Dobrin, Lise Miriam. "Phonological form, morphological class, and syntactic gender : the noun class systems of Papua New Guinea Arapeshan /." 1999. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9943061.

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Gutierrez, Keila 1988. "Morphological priming in Spanish-English bilingual children with and without language impairment." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5360.

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The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the amount of language models (i.e., dose frequency) that Spanish-English bilingual children with and without specific language impairment (SLI) require in order to consistently produce challenging target grammatical forms for 6 morphemes, 3 in English and 3 in Spanish, via a structural priming task. Participants included two 2nd grade children with SLI, five typically developing kindergarten children, and three typically developing 2nd grade peers. Participants were administered 10 control and 10 experimental cloze phrase computer tasks for e
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Kamanga, Chimwemwe Mayinde Mystic. "Meaning in "neaming" : the processing of word puns involving morphological and syntactic transposition using the "reverse principle"." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1458.

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The word pun is one of the figures of speech that people employ in everyday communication and especially in literary works in order to advance intricate aspects of meaning that may not be easy to express using 'plain' language. The word pun generally provides a speaker with an opportunity to mean more while saying less instead of saying more while meaning less. Considering the facts that people primarily communicate in order to exchange meaning, and that meaning can be very elusive and controversial, there are two questions about the use of the word pun. Can people understand the meaning in wo
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Sheng, Yi-Tseng, and 沈易增. "The application of morphological indicators and resource measures on project scheduling under resource constraints." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73328889975674501728.

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碩士<br>國立屏東商業技術學院<br>國際企業所<br>95<br>In this thesis, we use morphological indicators and resource measures to investigate the resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP). The purpose is to discuss the effect of morphological indicators and resource measures for resource conflicts under different network structures, working time and resource distribution. We use RanGen, a random network generator, to generate networks of project scheduling with different network structures and resource usage randomly.
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Wang, Chih-Jou, and 王芷葇. "The Investigation of Chinese Interrogatives on EFL Learners’ English Performances – A Case Study of Syntactic Island Constraints." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w88ukj.

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碩士<br>中原大學<br>應用外語研究所<br>103<br>This thesis aims to investigate whether or not Chinese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners’ perception on English sentences would be influenced by their L1 with respect to syntactic island constraints. Ross (1967) discovers that not all movements in English are free and terms this phenomenon as ‘syntactic island constraint’. Specifically, six kinds of configurations – complex noun phrase islands, wh-islands, sentential subject islands, coordinate structure islands, adjunct islands, left-branch islands – will block wh-movements even though the movement
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Shin, Chang Won 1972. "Korean EFL learners' knowledge of semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of English verbs: the relationships of lexical and grammatical knowledge." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3583.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between lexical and grammatical knowledge in the L2 acquisition of English by Korean EFL learners by examining how the depth of lexical knowledge that Korean learners have about English verbs is related to their grammatical knowledge. For this study, L2 research into depth of lexical knowledge and generative syntactic theory have been reviewed to suggest the interdependent nature of vocabulary and grammar in L2 acquisition (Nation, 1990, 2001; Chomsky, 1981, 1986, 1995; Herschensohn, 2000). Data were collected from Kor
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Liu, Ruowei. "Exploring the prosodic and syntactic aspects of Mandarin-English Code switching." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25473.

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L’alternance codique (Code-switching, CS) est l’un des comportements naturels les plus courants chez les bilingues. Les linguistes ont exploré les contraintes derrière l’alternance codique (CS) pour expliquer ce comportement. Au cours des dernières décennies, la recherche a plutôt été axée sur les contraintes syntaxiques et ce n’est que récemment que les contraintes prosodiques ont commencé à attirer l’attention des linguistes. Puisque la paire de langues choisie est moins étudiée dans le domaine de recherche sur la CS, les études sur la CS mandarin-anglais sont limitées en ce qui concerne les
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Badlangana, Ludo Nlambiwa. "Constraints versus adaptations as contending evolutionary explanations of morphological structure : The giraffe (Giraffa Camelopardalis) head and neck as a heuristic model." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/5853.

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The current study uses the head and neck of giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) as a model for tracking the course of evolutionary change. Gould (2002) has argued that there are three main avenues of evolutionary change that result in the genesis of new morphologies. These are phylogenetic constraints, structural or allometric scaling laws of form, and specific unique adaptations. It is well known that the unique characteristic of the giraffe is its extremely long neck and yet, it only has seven cervical vertebrae. To study the neck the vertebral body lengths of different aged giraffes wer
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Zivenge, William. "Phonological and morphological nativisation of english loans in Tonga." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2998.

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This thesis analyzes the phonological and morphological nativisation of English loans in the Tonga language. The contact situation between English and Tonga, in Zimbabwe, facilitates transference of lexical items between the two languages. From having been one of the most widely used languages of the world, English has developed into the most influential donor of words to other languages such as Tonga. The infiltration of English words into the Tonga lexical inventory led to the adoption and subsequent nativisation of English words by the native Tonga speakers. The main deposit of English word
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(10948092), Joshua David Weirick. "Language Background and the Realization of the Information Structure Constraints on English Ditransitive Constructions: Evidence from Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers." Thesis, 2021.

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<p>Previous research has shown that the type of ditransitive sentence preferred by English speakers in a particular linguistic context is significantly influenced by the relative ‘givenness’ of the post verbal arguments (i.e. the assumption that the referent of a linguistic expression is known to the speaker/hearer). This ‘givenness constraint’ has also been shown to play a role in the ditransitive sentence preferences of bilingual English speakers. Some have claimed that the realization of the givenness constraint in the ditransitive sentence preferences of bilingual English speakers is signi
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Fitzpatrick, Kerry Elisabeth. "Morphosyntactic priming in bilingual children." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3400.

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Limited information exists regarding the acquisition of syntax and morphology in young Spanish-English bilingual language learners. A method to measure short-term language learning is through structural priming; an auditory model of the target structure is presented, which influences a subject’s subsequent production. The purpose of this thesis was to develop and pilot priming tasks in both English and Spanish to analyze the language production of typically developing bilingual elementary school students. The morphosyntactic structures targeted in the structural priming task included the
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Šťastná, Natalie. "Francouzština v Belgii." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-297463.

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The aim of this research is to study the French language used in Belgium, to describe the linguistic situation and some peculiarities of the language there, and to compare it with French language used in France. The author lived in Belgium for nearly six years and compared her experience of the differences between the French language in Belgium with the one used in France. To explore her impressions, she has studied and analysed different sources on the topic and summarised the most important differences. The research is divided in two parts. One gives more general information on Belgium, desc
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