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ON THE INTERACTION OF LINGUISTIC TEXTS AND HUMAN KNOWLEDGE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)This study examines some aspects of the interaction of linguistic texts and human knowledge. The quest for greater context in linguistics suggests the focus of this study, viz., the effect of a text on the knowledge of its ... -
On the syntax of West Kalimantan: Asymmetries and A'-movement in Malayic and Land Dayak languages
(2020-09-01)This dissertation focuses on five Malayic and five Land Dayak languages of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, exploring voice, A’-movement, and extraction asymmetries through a Minimalist framework. The main goal of this dissertation ... -
Overseas Language Learning Experience: Student Beliefs About Their Teachers' Qualifications
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)This study investigates ESL student beliefs about ESL teachers' overseas experience (OE), language learning experience (LLE), and overseas language learning experience (OLLE), the combination of the two, as well as student ... -
An Overview Of Central Dizin Phonology And Morphology
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)Dizin (Dizi) is an Omotic language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia with three main dialects. This thesis focuses on Central Dizin phonology and morphology, but includes some data from Eastern Dizin and Western Dizin. Prolonged ... -
PALATALIZATION IN ALBANIAN: AN ACOUSTIC INVESTIGATION OF STOPS AND AFFRICATES
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)Palatalization is a very common process cross-linguistically; it has been widely attested in both Indo-European (e.g. Slavic) and non-Indo-European languages (e.g. Bantu and Chinese). Palatalization can be broken down into ... -
A perception study on the third tone in Mandarin Chinese
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This experimental study examines the role of the shape of the pitch contour in the perception of the Mandarin Chinese tone 3.2 A set of stimuli was constructed by ... -
PHILOSOPHY OF NORMATIVE DISCOURSE AND PERSUASION: A STUDY OF GA'DANG EXHORTATION AND ARGUMENTATION
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-12)This work applies the insights of textlinguistics to the study of normative or persuasive discourse. Although textlinguistics is already somewhat interdisciplinary in character, it was found to be too narrow to account for ... -
Phonetic emphasis in Tamil
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The present paper is based on a study conducted following Balasubramanian’s (1981) method: a native speaker was asked to emphasize a given item in a sentence and ... -
A PHONOLOGICAL GRAMMAR OF NORTHERN PAME
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-12)This dissertation describes the phonology and morphology of Northern Pame, an Otomanguean language of Central Mexico. Furthermore, it explains the grammatical relationship of these domains from an Optimality Theoretic ... -
Phonological Processes In Contemporary Spoken Bulgarian
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)This study investigates a number of phonological processes observed in the speech of 24 educated Bulgarian speakers. The speech of all subjects was recorded during 30 minute interviews conducted in 2004. Three speech styles ... -
PLAUSIBILITY AND STRUCTURAL REANALYSIS
(2016-05-31)This study examines whether highly proficient comprehenders of English with different language learning profiles -- English native speakers (NSs, N=40), late (Korean-English) learners (LLs, N=32), and early bilinguals (EBs, ... -
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 ... -
Practical Understandings: Teachers' Beliefs And Practices In Pronunciation Teaching
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)Recent discussion regarding pronunciation teaching and the global expansion of English use have encouraged formal English education in the EFL/expanding circle countries.The present study involved three native English ... -
PRAGMATIC ASPECTS OF ENGLISH TEXT STRUCTURE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-05)This study is an integration of two frequently independent fields of inquiry in linguistics, text analysis and pragmatics. It brings together the focus in text analysis on the structural and cohesive aspects of monolog ... -
Pragmatics: A multidisciplinary perspective
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Predicting near-native pronunciation in Spanish as a foreign language
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The objective of the present study is to examine the acquisition of pronunciation by 66 undergraduate students enrolled in three sections of an intermediate Spanish ... -
Preliminary tone analysis of possessed nouns in Chicahuaxtla Trique
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Chicahuaxtla Trique is one of the Trique languages spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. Among three Trique languages, Chicahuaxtla Trique has the most complicated tone system ... -
Primary stress assignment in Brazilian Portuguese
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Brazilians display a great interest in the prosody of their own language. Much classroom time is spent counting syllables, enumerating detailed rules for stress ... -
Processing L2 scripts in highly-proficient bilinguals
(2019-06-04)This dissertation explores second language (L2) word recognition in different-script bilinguals (i.e., bilinguals whose first language (L1) is written in a different script than their L2). Previous examinations of L2 word ... -
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 comes ...