Dissertations / Theses: 'Piety (The English word)'

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Clement, Claire Kathleen. "Processing piety and the materiality of spiritual mission at Syon Abbey, 1415-1539." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269847.

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This dissertation examines the intersection of spiritual values and material life at Syon Abbey, a wealthy Brigittine double monastery in late medieval England. As an institution it was, paradoxically, directed primarily toward an evangelical goal, while being focused on contemplative women who were strictly enclosed. In this dissertation, I assert that this apparent contradiction was resolved through a high degree of collaboration between the abbey’s religious women and men. I argue that Brigittine monasticism, and that of Syon in particular, was uniquely attuned to metaphors and meanings of materiality, which enabled the abbey to transform the women’s mundane material life of food, clothing, architecture, work, finance, and even bureaucracy, into spiritual fruits to be shared with the Syon brethren through dialogue within confessional relationships, and subsequently, with the laity through the media of sermons, sacraments, books, and conversation. I use the abbey’s extensive household financial accounts in conjunction with Brigittine writings and monastic legislative documents to examine the intersection of ideal material life and its spiritual meaning on the one hand, and the abbey’s lived materiality as reflected in its internal economic and administrative actions, on the other. The central question is the degree to which Syon’s material life was one of luxury in keeping with what the Order’s founder, Saint Birgitta, would have seen as worldly excess, or one of moderate asceticism, in keeping with the Brigittine Rule. Major findings are that in most respects (financial management, gender power, officer appointments, clothing, and some aspects of food), Syon’s materiality was lived in accordance with the Rule and the Brigittine mission, but that in some respects, it erred on the side of elite display and consumption (the majority of food items and the architecture and decoration of the abbey church), and in others, the source material is too incomplete to enable conclusions (the decoration of monastic buildings and the distribution of alms). In addition, by analysing the income from boarding of visitors and offerings from pilgrims, I examine the degree of Syon’s impact on the laity and how it changed with the approaching Dissolution, concluding that the abbey had a significant impact that declined only when legal restrictions were applied.

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Dalrymple, Roger. "Language and piety in middle English romance /." Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389357196.

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Hong, Sara. "Moving Imitation: Performing Piety in Early Modern English Literature." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/644.

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Thesis advisor: Mary T. Crane
Using the rich concept of imitatio as an organizing theme, this study explores the tangibility of faith and a privileging of an affective, embodied religious subjectivity in post-Reformation England. Moving Imitation asserts that literary and devotional concepts of imitatio--as the Humanist activity of translation and as imitatio Christi--were intensely interested in semiotics. Indeed, if the Renaissance was a period in which literary imitatio flourished, advancements in translation theory were not unaccompanied by anxieties--in this case, anxieties about the stability of language itself. Likewise, as iconophilia turned into iconophobia, a similar anxiety about the reliability of signs also characterized the turmoil of the English Reformation. Moving Imitation examines the overlapping qualities of both types of imitatio in order to point out how an important devotional aesthetic in the period involves a type of embodied imitation. The human body's resonance with the humanity of Christ and the pre-Cartesian worldview that saw the human body as fully engaged with what we consider to be more cognitive functions contributed to a privileging of the body as an acceptable sign of true devotion. Beginning with Sir Thomas Wyatt's paraphrase of the traditional penitential psalms, Moving Imitation explores the translation of penitence in Wyatt's work, and argues that a focus on David's outward gestures and body lends a firmness to a work that is otherwise anxious about the mutable nature of human words. Chapter two examines the suffering bodies in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments and their enactment of a visible imitatio Christi. Terms such as "members" function in its corporeal and communal senses in Acts and Monuments, for the marks of one's membership in the "true church" are born, literally, on one's members. Although much of Foxe's argumentation includes polemical disputes that seek to shut out a copia of meanings to the words, "This is my body," Foxe as an editor exploits the polysemous nature of the body in its corporeal and communal sensibilities. The performative aspects of martyrdom pave the way to a discussion of what I call transformative imitatio in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and The Winter's Tale. Although the theater's ability to "body forth" its fiction is a source of anxiety for antitheatricalists, proponents of the stage saw it as a way to defend the theater. Moving Imitation notes that the characterization of the stage's dangers--the ability to move people's affections--articulates an important Reformist desire: that the individual subject should not only be affected, but also be galvanized into devotional imitation. Such interest in action becomes important in Hamlet; if the central dilemma of the play (Hamlet's inability to take action) is considered against a common religious dilemma (how one stirs oneself towards genuine worship) the solutions as well as the problems overlap. Through the statue scene of The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare defuses the danger attributed to the stage by animating a potentially idolatrous image with life; in ways that were only hinted at in Hamlet, The Winter's Tale makes use of the lively bodies onstage to suggest that the presumed connection between idolatry and the imitative stage is an unwarranted one, and "to see... life as lively mocked" can help to perform redemption
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English

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Ladner, Jocelyn B. Neuleib Janice. "Performing the word, transforming the word, writing the word alternative teaching strategies for freshman composition /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3172879.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.
Title from title page screen, viewedNovember 17, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Janice Neuleib (chair) , Patricia A. Dunn, Nancy Tolson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-126) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Stoeber, Karen. "Late medieval English and Welsh monasteries and their patrons, c.1300-1540." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274443.

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Walters, Gwenfair M. "Visitacyons, preuytes, and deceytys : the vision in late medieval English popular piety." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260458.

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Wren, Sebastian Andrew. "An examination of the word-frequency effect in word recognition : controlling the confound of word recency /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Rosta, Andrew. "English syntax and word grammar theory." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288690.

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Collins, Michael Xavier. "Cognitive Perspectives On English Word Order." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343315752.

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Hampson, Mary Regina Seeger. "Thomas Becon and the English Reformation: "The Sick Man's Salve" and the Protestantization of English Popular Piety." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625996.

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Tani, Akinobu. "Word pairs in late Middle English prose." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3323/.

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Word Pairs in Late Middle English Prose investigates the use of word pairs (WPs) occurring in various English prose texts in the late Middle English period, i.e. in the fourteenth- and fifteenth-centuries. The research question addressed is a stylistic one: is there a relationship between the use of WPs and the genres of these texts? Characteristics of WPs investigated in the study include (1) the normalized frequency of WPs, (2) the etymological makeup of WPs and (3) repetition of WPs. First, the analysis of WPs in all Chaucer’s prose texts is conducted in comparison with two controls as a preliminary study to examine the different uses of WPs in each prose text and the relationship between these texts in terms of the use of WPs, and to check the validity of the methodology used in the analysis of late medieval English prose. After having ascertained the validity of the methodology, the analyses of WPs follow in a range of other texts with a wider circulation: the Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, Trevisa’s On the Properties of Things, the Brut or the Chronicles of England, English Wycliffite Sermons, the History of Reynard the Fox, Paris and Vienne, the Works of Sir Thomas Malory, Fortescue’s the Governance of England. Next, the analyses of WPs follow in texts with a more limited audience in mind such as An Anthology of Chancery English, and Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. Through the analysis of the WPs in these texts, the characteristics of WPs in each text are identified. Then characteristics in what are thought to be similar texts are compared. Statistical methods such as principal component analysis and cluster analysis are then applied to the WP data to investigate and demonstrate generic and stylistic relationships. The results of the study point to a contrast between curial style and traditional native style based on speech, the difference between which can be characterized as the abundance or dearth of WPs and the different ratio of Old French (OF)+OF vs. Old English (OE)+OE types of WPs, respectively. Certain characteristics peculiar to individual prose texts are also revealed. Lastly, the reasons for the use of WPs in different texts are considered. This study reveals the complex use of WPs in different texts, and offers a study of the subject which is more nuanced and delicate than has been previously achieved.

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Cox, Cynthia Gail. "Bilingual word detectives transferability of word decoding skills for Spanish/English bilingual students /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1457293.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Nov. 10, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-193).

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Donley, Maren L. "Merchant drama: Trade, piety, and the paths to salvation in English drama, 1400--1532." Connect to online resource, 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:3337088.

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Diaz, Hannah. "Reformation London and the Adaptation of Observed Piety." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3256.

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In reformation London, the shift of the governed religion enabled laymen to recognize individuality in their faith, to read scripture in the vernacular, and to exercise their faith outside of mass. Therefore, the overall perception of personal piety took a turn from being exercised communally to becoming something reflective of the individual. Analyzing gender dynamics, language, religious orders, and theology reveal this transition and help gain a holistic understanding of transitioning perceptions of piety. This thesis contributes to the rich historiographical conversation in understanding Reformation studies. By adopting elements from top-down and bottom-up approaches, this thesis further develops on the understanding of perceptions of religious piety in reformation London.

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Heung, Lok-yi, and 香樂怡. "Loan word compression in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007573.

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Piao, Scott. "Sentence and word alignment between Chinese and English." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/52143/.

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Okobi, Anthony O. (Anthony Obiesie) 1976. "Acoustic correlates of word stress in American English." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37963.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-126).
Acoustic parameters that differentiate between primary stress and non-primary full vowels were determined using two-syllable real and novel words and specially constructed novel words with identical syllable compositions. The location of the high focal pitch accent within a declarative carrier phrase was varied using an innovative object naming task that allowed for a natural and spontaneous manipulation of phrase-level accentuation. Results from male native speakers of American English show that when the high focal pitch accent was on the novel word, vowel differences in pitch, intensity prominence, and amplitude of the first harmonic, H1 * (corrected for the effect of the vocal tract filter), accurately distinguished full vowel syllables carrying primary stress vs. non-primary stress. Acoustic parameters that correlated to word stress under all conditions tested were syllable duration, HI*-A3*, as a measurement of spectral tilt, and noise at high frequencies, determined by band-pass filtering the F3 region of the spectrum. Furthermore, the results indicate that word stress cues are augmented when the high focal pitch accent is on the target word.
(cont.) This became apparent after a formula was devised to correct for the masking effect of phrase-level accentuation on the spectral tilt measurement, Hi *-A3*. Perceptual experiments also show that male native speakers of American English utilized differences in syllable duration and spectral tilt, as controlled by the KLSYN88 parameters DU and TL, to assign prominence status to the syllables of a novel word embedded in a carrier phrase. Results from this study suggest that some correlates to word stress are produced in the laryngeal region and are due to vocal fold configuration. The model of word stress that emerges from this study has aspects that differ from other widely accepted models of prosody at the word level. The model can also be applied to improve the prosody of synthesized speech, as well as to improve machine recognition of speech.
by Anthony O. Okobi.
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Kwok, Rosa Kit Wan. "Orthographic and phonological processing in English word learning." Thesis, University of York, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/7403/.

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This thesis investigates the process of orthographic and phonological word learning in adults. Speed of reading aloud is used as the main measure, specifically the reduction in naming reaction times (RTs) to short and long novel words through repetition and the convergence of RTs to short and long items. The first study (Chapter 2) fully described this fundamental learning paradigm and it is then used to compare various types of training in different groups of readers in the following chapters. Second, the role of phonology in visual word learning was investigated in Chapter 3. Novel words that received the training of both orthography and phonology (reading aloud condition) was found to be more efficient and effective compared to solely training the phonology of the novel words (hear-and-repeat with and without distractors). Yet, all three experiments in Chapter 3 also showed that the establishment of a phonological representation of a novel word can be sufficient of result in representations in the mental lexicon even without any encounter with the orthographic form of the novel word. Linear mixed effect modelling also found that literacy and phonological awareness made a significant contribution to nonwords naming speed when vocabulary and rapid digit naming were taken into account. Expressive vocabulary was found to be a significant predictor of the change in naming speed across the learning session when the effects of literacy, phonological awareness were controlled. Third, Chapter 4 then involved the repeated presentation of interleaved high-frequency words, low-frequency words and nonwords to native speakers of English in two testing sessions 28 days apart. Theoretical interest lies in the relative effects of length on naming latencies for high-frequency words, low-frequency words and nonwords, the extent to which those latencies (RTs) converge for shorter and longer words and nonwords, and the persistence of training/repetition effects over a 28-day retention interval. Finally, Chapters 5 and 6 try to bring these theories in a more applied context to understand orthographic word learning in adults with dyslexia and in bilingual speakers.

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Matchim, Joan Oldford. "The effects of contextual cues and word frequency on word recognition /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487261919113531.

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Selman, Rebecca Anne Clare. "Voices and wisdom : a study of Henry Suso's Horologium Sapientiae in some late medieval English religious texts." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284634.

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Heung, Lok-yi. "Loan word compression in Hong Kong /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36846260.

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Keating, Geraldine Corriene. "The effects of word characteristics on children's reading." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 1987. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/3138/.

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The object of the research reported in this thesis was to investigate the effects of word characteristics on children's reading performance. The experiments investigating word imagery and age of acquisition showed that imagery was a highly significant word characteristic for less skilled readers. There was an age of acquisition effect which was inversely correlated with reading ability. Probabilistic measures of orthographic regularity (such as Initial Bigram Frequency and Versatility and First Order approximation to English) were shown to be significant predictors of reading for good and poor readers and lexical decision performance for average readers. It also appeared that as reading ability improved, word properties such as the Orthographic Neighbour Ratio, which takes into account neighourhood size and frequency affected reading accuracy in the good and average reader in the lexical decision task. Other measures of orthographic regularity-orthographic neighbourhood size and body type were also shown to affect reading accuracy although effects appeared less marked for skilled readers. The regularity effect was seen to be dependent upon hostility and frequency of word neighbours, and the frequency of the target word itself, rather than due to a regularity-irregularity dichotomy.

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Smartschan, Carl Ernest. "The effect of bilingual word lists on test scores of ESOL science students." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1989. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Pitrat, Adrien. "Interlexical effects of word frequency in English-French bilinguals." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ26937.pdf.

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Tucker, Benjamin Vardell. "Spoken Word Recognition of the Reduced American English Flap." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194987.

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Phonetic variation as found in various speech styles is a rich area for research on spoken word recognition. Research on spoken word recognition has focused on careful, easily controlled speech styles. This dissertation investigates the processing of the American English Flap. Specifically, it focuses on the effect of reduction on processing. The main question asked in this dissertation is whether listeners adjust their expectations for how segments are realized based on speech style. Even more broadly, how do listeners process or recognize reduced speech? Two specific questions are asked that address individual parts of the broad question. First, how does reduction affect listeners’ recognition of words? Is it more difficult for listeners to recognize words pronounced in reduced forms, or is it perhaps easier for listeners to recognize reduced forms? Second, do listeners adjust their expectations about reduction based on preceding speech style (context)? Four experiments were designed using the auditory lexical decision and crossmodal identity priming tasks. Listeners’ responses to reduced and unreduced flaps (e.g. unreduced [pʌɾl] as opposed to reduced [pʌɾl]) were recorded. The results of this work show that the phonetic variation found in speech styles containing reduction causes differences in processing. Processing of reduced speech is inhibited by weakened acoustic information or mismatch to the underlying phonemic representation in the American English flap. Listeners use information about speech style to process the widely varying acoustic reflections of a segment in connected speech. The implications of these findings for models of spoken word recognition are discussed.

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Hong, Hyo-chang. "Discourse functions of Old English passive word order variation." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1259301.

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The purpose of this study was to determine discourse and functional motivation for passive word order variation as shown in three of the major Early Old English prose texts, Orosius, Pastoral Care, and Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The main variation of Early Old English passive word orders are of three types, which this study showed to be distinct in the extent to which passive subjects represent information structure. This study further shows that, while thematicity functions as a main motivating factor for the use of passives, positional variation of passive verbal elements is also an important determinant of the degrees of information structure of passive main clause subjects.
Department of English

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Pitrat, Adrien (Adrien Pierre Andre) Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "Interlexical effects of word frequency in English-French bilinguals." Ottawa, 1997.

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Précenth, Rasmus. "Word Embeddings and Gender Stereotypes in Swedish and English." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Tillämpad matematik och statistik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-382835.

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Winberg, Dan-Erik. "English Academic Word Knowledge in Tertiary Education in Sweden." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-24981.

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The English language has established itself as the academic lingua franca of the world. For example, Swedish universities are mainly using English textbooks in their teaching. For students in tertiary education in Sweden, it is thus necessary to have an academic English vocabulary. This study examines the academic word knowledge of 148 students in different disciplines at a Swedish university. The method used was a vocabulary test. The test design was based on the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) and the words were chosen from the Academic Word List (AWL) due to their frequency in academic written texts. There was a rapid decline of the participants' word knowledge the less common the words were according to the AWL. The results indicate that Swedish students’ academic word knowledge in English is generally unsatisfactory, which could make the reading of academic texts troublesome for them.

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Blekher, Marina. "Word-type effects in the lexical processing of Russian-English and French-English bilinguals." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ59935.pdf.

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Dalrymple, Roger. "The pious formulae of the Middle English romances : a catalogue of stylistic study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f3ec5168-4e84-4e8b-bc2d-14d1dcba0b6e.

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The prayers and oaths of the Middle English verse romances draw upon a range of pious formulae. These stock invocations rehearse key episodes from salvation history. Such formulae are widely viewed as mere line-fillers and they are rarely credited with stylistic influence. Yet the startling power of their apposite usage in charged narrative moments prompts further investigation. The thesis aims to demonstrate how the use of pious formulae in the romances is not inevitably mechanical. It comprises a catalogue and stylistic study of such formulae. The catalogue records all examples appearing in a single witness to each of the pre-1500 verse romances. By furnishing information on prosodic context, it offers a reference tool with which to measure the extent of technical determination in the appearance of a formula. The thesis analyses this material and advances claims for the aesthetic value of pious formulae. Chapter 1 reviews the evidence of the catalogue. It is shown how pious formulae embody an impressive range of devotional imagery. Chapter 2 illustrates that cognate formulae are widely employed in Middle English religious literature. It is shown how therein they exhibit a theological significance and a stylistic saliency. Chapter 3 shows how intermittent reflections of this serious stylistic usage are apparent in the pious romance, Guy of Warwick. Chapters 4 and 5 show how the affective resonance of such formulae is consistently exploited in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and William of Palerne respectively. Chapter 6 provides a brief summary. It concludes that the pious formulae of the romances can convey a strong aesthetic charge. They serve as more than mere line-fillers. Three appendices are included. Appendix A explores the relation between pious formulae and medieval profane oaths. Appendix B lists the variant readings of the formulae of four romances. Appendix C comprises the catalogue.

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Ranbom, Larissa J. "Lexical representation of phonological variation in spoken word recognition." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/1425750.

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Smith, Bethany. "Guilty pleasures: piety, profanity, and incongruity in The Land of Cokaygne, The Miller's Tale, and The King of Tars." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6644.

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This project considers profane moments in three Middle English texts which use an incongruous combination of religious elements and exaggerated misbehavior to entertain the reader, as well as to critique, question, or mock established values and their all-too-human representatives. Each text draws its form from popular, entertaining genres, yet inserts learned and pious elements. The resulting collisions of cultural registers including high and low, sacred and profane, create ludic and layered explorations of those categories. In each text, undercurrents of incongruity and inversion blur, invert, or exaggerate the shocking or entertaining effect of bad behavior. I read this combination of contrasting influences as a carnivalesque and at times subversive form of social commentary, and suggest that both the popularity and the religiosity of each text are key to its provocative incongruity. In addition to the transgressive elements that knowingly elicit a strong audience reaction, each text has its unintentionally offensive aspects— passages likely be read differently by readers today than in the fourteenth century. In each chapter, I consider some of the pedagogical challenges and opportunities afforded by not only aesthetically but ideologically shocking elements, and the tensions these moments stand to expose in both their medieval context and the contemporary literature classroom. My approach combines cultural studies and pedagogy to ask how abstract hierarchies of low and high, profane and sacred, can be explored through the use of these entertaining, yet challenging, texts in a college classroom setting, using moments of exaggerated transgression to generate practical approaches to discussion with students.

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Cohen, Shai. "On the semantics of too and only distinctness and subsumption /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3379949/.

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Salkinder, Mia Anna. "The poetry of Ruth Miller : the Word and her words." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13936.

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Bibliography: leaves 65-66.
This dissertation analyses a selection of Ruth Miller's poetry collected in Floating Island (1965), Selected Poems (1968) and previously uncollected poems included in the posthumous collection, Ruth Miller: Poems, Prose, Plays (1990) edited by Lionel Abrahams. It extends and argues against the most recent readings of Ruth Miller proposed by Joan Metelerkamp (1991 and 1992). Metelerkamp suggests that previous criticisms of Miller, focusing exclusively on her modernist intent, ignore Miller's role as a woman living in a society dominated by patriarchal authority; an authority that is informed by the Judeo-Christian tradition. This dissertation extends Metelerkamp's observation, showing how the existential crisis that is made manifest in Miller's poetry is generated by both her compliance with and denial of this patriarchal Judeo-Christian meaning-making system. It also registers a changing development in Miller 's poetic trajectory from her earlier to her later poems. Metelerkamp's criticism of Miller's poetry has not recorded this development, allowing for the overall pronouncement that her poetry registers only loss and shows no conscious signs of negotiating the patriarchal system in which she is entrapped. In contrast, the conclusion of this dissertation points to elements in Miller's later poetry that suggest the development of Miller's voice as well as indicating Miller's recognition of her own compliance and desire to break with patriarchal authority.

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Chen, Selma Shu-Mei. "The effects of L1 word order and English proficiency on non-English speakers' sentence processing." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/720150.

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This study is a partial replication of Davison & Lutz's (1984) experiment. It was designed to test if L1 word order and English proficiency are involved in non-native speakers' sentence processing. This study concentrates on the roles of syntax and pragmatics/semantics in sentence processing. By comparing two corresponding syntactic structures with similar meanings but different forms in context, we can detect the different degrees of the salient property of a certain NP. The perception of the salient NP is related to the definition of the sentence topic, which functions as the link between the sentence and the discourse. The salient NP can be identified by applying our linguistic knowledge, syntactic rules, and our real world knowledge, pragmatic principles,. The choice of syntactic structure is conditioned heavily by pragmatic principles. It is believed that response times correspond to the degrees of salience.Sixty international students participated in the experiment. Stimulus sentences were presented with a computer program and response times were recorded in seconds by the computer automatically. A cloze test was given for the measuring of English proficiency.The data collected were analyzed with SPSS-X. The MANOVA was carried out to compare the differences between VO/OV language types, target sentences (transformed and untransformed ones), five types of syntactic constructions, and the interactions ofword order by target sentences, target sentences by syntactic constructions, and L1 word order by target sentences by syntactic constructions. The response times for English proficiency were used as a post hoc variable. Significance was set at .05.The results revealed that there was a significant difference across five syntactic constructions (p < .05). The other tests were not significant. Two important limitations on this study are problems arising out of randomization parameters in the experiment, and the lack of lower level English proficiency subjects.
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Whiteley, Helen Elizabeth. "The activation of multiletter units in visual word recognition." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 1993. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/20101/.

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Influential accounts of visual word recognition argue that lexical access is entirely mediated via preliminary letter identification processcs(McClelland and Rumelhart, 1981; Seidenberg, 1987). Others advocate a role for visual features characterising the whole word (Haber and Haber, 1981). A third view holds that lexical access is, at least in part, mediated by sublexical units which are recovered by the action of a parsing mechanism operating on identified letter codes through the application of specific rules (e.g., Spoehr and Smith, 1973). Recent work by Alice Healy and her colleagues supports a multi-level view of word recognition incorporating representations not only at the letter and whole word levels, but also at an intermediate level where multiletter units can be activated directly by supraletter features (e.g., Healy and Drewnowski, 1983). The concept of an intermediate level of representation in visual word recognition remains controversial. A priming paradigm was employed to investigate the existence of directly activated multiletter units. Subjects were required to make a discrimination response to test stimuli which could be either targets or foils. Targets were either single-letters or consonant-bigrarns which were present or absent in an immediately preceding word, and foils were either single keyboard characters or a character plus a letter. Experiment I verified an earlier finding that responses to consonant-bigram targets are facilitated when these appear in a prime word, while responses to the constituent letters of those bigrams are not facilitated (Greenberg and Vellutino, 1988). In addition, responses to primed bigrain targets were faster than responses to primed single letter targets. Experiments 2 to 4 revealed that the bigram priming effect occurs only when both primes and targets appear in lower-case type. These observations provide evidence for the existence of directly activated multiletter units. Subsequent experiments supplied converging evidence for the importance of supraletter visual features in the activation of multiletter units and strengthened the view that the multiletter unit effects observed arise at a pre-lexical stage of processing when words are being processed to a level of meaning. Implications for theories of reading are discussed, and related developmental issues are considered.

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Vo, Phuong Vi. "A Comparison of Picture to Word Training and Word to Word Training on Native English Speaking College Students’ Acquisition of Italian Vocabulary." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407810/.

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The current study assessed the effects of two teaching stimulus presentations, i.e. picture to word and word to word, used to teach second language vocabulary to college students. It also evaluated the emergence of untaught relations when picture to word and word to word were used separately as a teaching strategy. The findings showed picture to word training resulted in more untaught relations. Several aspects such time allotted for online quizzes, experimental and teaching arrangements and vocabulary complexity were suggested for future research.

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Aertsen, H. "Play in Middle English : a contribution to word field theory /." Amsterdam : Free University Press, 1987. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/33043.

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Yeon, Sang-Hee. "Teaching English word-final alveolopalatals to native speakers of Korean." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0006465.

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Moore, Daniel Hight. "The perception of english word-final /L/ by brazilian learners." Florianópolis, SC, 2008. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/91237.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.
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Very little research exists on Brazilians concerning English word-final /l/ beyond noting that they generally produce [u] (Baptista, 2001) or [w] (Avery & Ehrlich, 1992). Perception of this word-final consonant is also little researched. To attempt to address these gaps in the literature, this study investigated Brazilian ESL students' perception of English word-final /l/ (dark /l/). Two groups of 20 Brazilian learners of English (intermediate and advanced) and one group of native speakers of English participated in the experiment. Three pairs of tests - two Categorial Discrimination Tests, two discrimination tasks, and two identification tests - examined perception of word-final /l/. The first test of each pair assessed word-final contrasts in both Portuguese and English; the second examined English-only contrasts. All results were analyzed by overall error rate, error rate per vowel context and error rate per test. Demographic data and total error rate were explored for correlations. No significant differences were found between the two groups of Brazilian students. Only for the vowel contexts /o/ and /?/ did native speakers perform significantly better than Brazilians. Native and non-native error rates were very low for vowel contexts /a?/ and /e?/ and quite high for /a?/. Há pouca pesquisa com brasileiros a respeito da pronúncia do /l/ final de palavras inglesas, além da observação de que geralmente é produzido como [u] (Baptista, 2001) ou [w] (Avery & Ehrlich, 1992). A percepção dessa consoante também é pouco pesquisada. Para tentar preencher essas lacunas na literatura, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi investigar a percepção do /l/ no final de palavras inglesas ("dark /l/") por brasileiros estudantes de inglês como língua estrangeira. Dois grupos de 20 estudantes brasileiros de inglês (dos níveis intermediário e avançado) e um grupo de falantes nativos de inglês participaram neste experimento. Três pares de testes - dois Testes de Discriminação Categórica, dois Testes de Discriminação, e dois Testes de Identificação - aferiram a percepção do /l/ no final de palavras. O primeiro teste de cada par examinou contrastes finais em palavras do português brasileiro e do inglês; o segundo examinou contrastes somente em palavras inglesas. Os resultados foram abalizados por índice de erro global, de erro por vogal, e de erro por teste. Dados demográficos e índice de erro global foram explorados para investigar correlações. Nenhuma diferença significante foi encontrada entre os grupos de brasileiros. O menor índice de erro do resultado dos falantes nativos de inglês foi estatisticamente significativo somente nos contextos de /o/ e /?/. O índice de erro de todos os grupos foi muito baixo nos contextos de /a?/ e /e?/ e muito alto em /a?/.

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Ingram, Catherine. "Word and Song: The Paradox of Romanticism." TopSCHOLAR®, 1996. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/805.

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Among the various outcomes of the Romantic period, an interest in the relationship of the arts remains a widely recognized yet rarely examined field of study. Music and literature seemed to develop a particular kinship, yet to identify the exact relationship is as difficult as defining Romanticism itself. In this study, I attempt to do both. In exploring the concept of Romanticism, its paradoxical development from Classicism is examined through the comparison of six great composers and poets of the period. By tracing the similarities and differences in style of Beethoven/Wordsworth, Schumann/Keats, and Brahms/Tennyson, hopefully a clearer understanding of the evolution of Romanticism is achieved. These artists, although creating through different mediums, address the apparent rejection of Neoclassicism, the apex of Romanticism, and the realization of its limitations. The result is the revelation of the paradox of Romanticism. For each artist, the realization of the Romantic spirit presents contrasts. Ultimately, the rejection of Neoclassic thought becomes as important to Romanticism as its dependence on Neoclassic form. These six artists achieved success not only because of their talents but also because of their acknowledgement of this fact. In this study, I trace their development through the rise and fall of Romanticism as more than instances of shared techniques or borrowed texts; the similarities in thought, poetic vision, and style shared by these artists are explored as well. The paradox of Romanticism is revealed through the interrelationship of poetry and music.

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Tse, Ping-ping. "Homophone effects in Cantonese-English bilinguals." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/b40203840.

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Glutz, von Blotzheim-Maier Barbara. "Angst und Schreckangst im Neuenglischen /." Bern : Francke, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34897649v.

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Wen, Yun. "Behavioural and electrophysiological investigations of Chinese translation activation during English word recognition in Chinese-English bilinguals." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43208/.

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Bilinguals have the unique ability to translate words between their languages. Although translation is a seemingly deliberate and conscious process, recent research has shown that first language (L1) translation equivalents can be automatically and quickly activated during second language (L2) word reading. Automatic translation activation strongly supports the idea of non-selective lexical access. This thesis investigates L1 (Chinese) translation activation during L2 (English) word reading in Chinese-English bilinguals, mainly through using the hidden translation repetition paradigm. In a series of behavioural and electrophysiological experiments using carefully selected stimuli, English words were subliminally or visibly presented to Chinese-English bilinguals in an attempt to seek the source of automatic translation activation (phonology: segment and/or tone, and/or orthography) and to explore to what extent translation activation is automatic. In contrast to previous studies, the behavioural investigations revealed that automatic translation only occurs for target words, which were visible to bilinguals, but not for the invisible masked primes. In addition, in the electrophysiological study, the event-related brain potentials and event-related brain oscillations provided evidence for the dominant role of Chinese segmental (consonants and vowels) activation during English word reading. Possible interpretations for these new findings are provided. Theoretical and methodological implications of the present thesis are also discussed.

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Enarsson, Anna. "New Blends in the English Language." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-674.

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Titel: New Blends in the English Language

Författare: Anna Enarsson

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Abstract: The aim of this essay was to identify new blends that have entered the English language. Firstly six different word-formation processes, including blending, was described. Those were compounding, clipping, backformation, acronyming, derivation and blending. The investigation was done by using a list of blends from Wikipedia. The words were looked up in the Longman dictionary of 2005 and in a dictionary online. A google search and a corpus investigation were also conducted. The investigation suggested that most of the blends were made by clipping and the second most common form was clipping and overlapping. Blends with only overlapping was unusual and accounted for only three percent. The investigation also suggested that the most common way to create blends by clipping was to use the first part of the first word and the last part of the second word. The blends were not only investigated according to their structure but also according to the domains they occur in. This part of the investigation suggested that the blends were most frequent in the technical domain, but also in the domain of society

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Dickerson, Stephanie Joy. "Dialectal and developmental influences on real word and non-word spelling tasks." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002913.

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TOYAMA, Katsuhiko, Kazuhiro IMAI, and Yasuhiro OGAWA. "APPLICATION OF WORD ALIGNMENT FOR SUPPORTING ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF JAPANESE STATUTES." INTELLIGENT MEDIA INTEGRATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY / COE, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/10410.

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Holmberg, Anders. "Word order and syntactic features in the Scandinavian languages and English /." Stockholm : Dept. of General Linguistics, University of Stockholm, 1986. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/33078.

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DeVito, Angela Ann. "Gendered speech in Old English narrative poetry: A comprehensive word list." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280305.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to create a word list of male and female speech in those Old English narrative poems which contain dialogue, to use as a reference in determining what, if any, differences existed between the way male Anglo-Saxon poets constructed speech for their male and female characters. Using a specifically designed computer program and an on-line text of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, I electronically tagged those lines assigned to male characters, and then those assigned to female speakers, to generate two separate word lists. I eliminated all immortal speech (God, angels, demons), and all proper nouns as not germane to a study of male and female speech patterns. After I created the raw word lists, I parsed each individual word, and placed it under the appropriate headword. I further classified nouns, adjectives and pronouns according to case and number, and verbs according to person, number, tense and mood. In addition to the word lists, the dissertation includes a critical introduction, and a brief analysis of differences between male and female speech patterns in selected poems.

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