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Politeness Devices In The Tuvan Language
Whereas a few core areas of the Tuvan language (such as phonology and morphology) have been fairly well described by linguists, pragmasemantic topics in the language, including politeness, have until now not been probed ... -
A Reanalysis of Bidirectionality in Auca
(Department of Linguistics, California State University, FresnoDepartment of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2000) -
Prosody Drives the Syntax: O'odham Rhythm
(Berkeley Linguistics SocietyLinguistic Society of AmericaDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1994) -
A Corpus Study Of Requests In Naturally Occurring Spoken American English: A Context Analysis Approach
Given the variety of ways that speakers of American English can make requests, relatively little has been discovered on why speakers choose the forms they do. Using data from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American ... -
Inquiries into Korean Linguistics V: Selected Works from the Eighteenth International Conference and the 2012 Xuzhou Conference on Linguistic Sciences
(MavOpenPressDepartment of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012-07) -
The Structure Of Jarai Clauses And Noun Phrases
(Linguistics, 2014-09-17)This dissertation provides a syntactic account for the Jarai noun phrase and for the three regions of the Jarai clause: the operator domain, the inflectional domain, and the theta domain. Within the noun phrase, I argue ... -
Binding Accessibility and Online Anaphora Processing
(Department of Linguistics and TESOL, the University of Texas at Arlington, 2012) -
Relative Clause Processing: Evidence from Russian
(Department of Linguistics and TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington., 2014)Studies on relative clauses (RCs) in a number of languages have shown that object-extracted RCs (ORCs) are more difficult to process than subject-extracted RCs (SRCs). SRC-ORC processing asymmetry has been attributed to: • ... -
Form Interference Effects During Silent Reading
(Department of Linguistics and TESOL, the University of Texas at Arlington., 2013)Although many studies have shown that phonological repetition causes reading comprehension difficulties, the nature of these processing costs remains unclear. Purpose of the study: to shed light on this issue by examining ... -
Long-distance attraction effects in subject-verb agreement processing
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Testing the viability of web DMDX for masked priming experiments
(Department of Linguistics and TESOL, the University of Texas at Arlington., 2012)Purpose: • Evaluate the viability of a web-based version of the DMDX software package (web DMDX). • It was unclear whether web DMDX allowed for the consistent and accurate display of experimental stimuli. Research ... -
Masked onset priming in Korean: Evidence for syllable- and phoneme-level effects
(Department of Linguistics and TESOL, the University of Texas at Arlington., 2012) -
The Meter of Tohono O'odham Songs
(University of Chicago Press, 1998) -
Vowel Hiatus and Faithfulness in Tohono O'odham Reduplication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology PressDepartment of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2000) -
Prosodic Inconsistency in Tohono O'odham
(University of Chicago PressDepartment of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)This paper makes a typological contribution by describing a stress system that uses syllabic trochees while also displaying characteristics more typically associated with a quantity-sensitive language. The description ... -
Swahili Word Order Choices: Insights From Information Structure
(Linguistics, 2014-07-14)Cross-linguistic pragmatic studies have shown non-canonical word order can often be explained if information structure is taken into consideration. This dissertation explores word order variation in Swahili (SVO, Bantu) ... -
Tohono O'odham stress in a single ranking
(Cambridge University PressDepartment of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-08) -
Training Communities, Training Graduate Students: The 2012 Oklahoma Breath of Life Workshop
(University of Hawaii PressDepartment of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013) -
Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation
(Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, July 20-22)Earlier studies showed some word pairs in health discourse being conflated. If some polysemes are not recognized as fully separate senses, is there a pattern of use showing if speakers feel that experiencing one sense ... -
Vernacular Explanations of Causation in Lay Health Discourse
(Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, 2013-06-07)Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ...