Browsing Department of Linguistics & TESOL by Title
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Language and the shaping of the Arab-American identity
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This study is an attempt to shed light on the interaction between language and the ethnic, cultural, and religious identities of Arab-Americans. It employs two ... -
LANGUAGE DEATH IN MESMES: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE EXAMINIATION OF A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)Mesmes is a recently extinct language within the Peripheral West Gurage subgroup of the Ethio-Semitic Gurage cluster in southwestern Ethiopia. While Leslau (1979) and Hetzron (1972 and 1977), among many others, have examined ... -
The Language Of The University: A Systemic Functional Analysis
(Linguistics, 2008-08-08)This study examines the negotiation of interpersonal meaning in the language of university administrators in their communications with students. The three texts in this study were written by the president of a large ... -
Learner Perceptions Of Small Group And Pair Work In The ESL Classroom: Implications For Conditions In Second Language Acquisition
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)Second language acquisition (SLA) research finds that small group (SG) and pair work (PW) are essential tools in language learning, specifically creating optimal conditions for negotiation of meaning (e.g., Long, 1985; ... -
LEARNING EFFICIENCIES FOR DIFFERENT ORTHOGRAPHIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HAN CHARACTERS AND VIETNAMESE ROMANIZATION
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)In order to address the question of whether or not to abandon Han characters (Hanji), it is important to evaluate empirically the efficiency of Han writing. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficiency of learning ... -
Legitimate Strategies In Writing : Exploring ESOL Learner Perspectives On Attribution
(Humanities, 2007-08-23)In many academic institutions today, ESOL (English as a Second or Other Language) writers may incorporate background sources into their writing in ways unrecognized by their academic institutions, which could lead to these ... -
Lexical borrowing, creolization and basic vocabulary
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This paper is concerned with two sets of questions, one from semantics and cognitive linguistics, one from diachronic linguistics and in particular creole studies. ... -
Lexical Conflation and Edible Iconicity: Two Sources of Ambiguity in American Vernacular Health Terminology
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LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THREE GUJARATI FOLKTALES
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-05)This study represents an attempt to place linguistic analysis in the cultural setting. The linguistic aspect of this study is presented in the framework of discourse grammar following the model developed by Longacre (1976, ... -
LINGUISTIC VARIATION WITHIN GUMUZ: A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HISTORICAL CHANGE AND INTELLIGIBILITY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)The Gumuz language is spoken by roughly 160,000 people across the Blue Nile region of Ethiopia and Sudan (Grimes 2004). Gumuz is the sole member of the Gumuz family which is part of the larger Nilo-Saharan super-family ... -
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: ADULT SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1987-12)The goal of this work is to discover information that will improve the selection and design of listening comprehension materials for adult second language learners. Chapter 1 treats adult versus child language learning and ... -
The Locus and Nature of the Object-Extracted Relative Clause Penalty
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Long-distance attraction effects in subject-verb agreement processing
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A Longitudinal Analysis Of The Vocalic Nucleus In Modern Russian
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)This instrumental acoustic study investigates coarticulation as the source of palatalization in Modern Standard Russian. This study posits that the nucleus is bifurcated, with nodes for a pre-kernel and a kernel. At the ... -
Masked onset priming in Korean: Evidence for syllable- and phoneme-level effects
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The Meter of Tohono O'odham Songs
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Morphological decomposition in heritage language speakers
(2019-07-24)This dissertation investigates the grammatical processing in a heritage language (HL), or the first language (L1) in a home or minority setting that has become a non-dominant language, and a more dominant second language ... -
Narrative Storyline Marking In Safaliba: Determining The Meaning And Discourse Function Of A Typologically-suspect Pronoun Set
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)This study examines the meaning and discourse functions of a typologically unusual set of pronouns (the "N-pronoun" set) in Safaliba, a little-studied Gur language of western Ghana. The phonological structure of the ... -
NATIVE LANGUAGE AND NON-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCES ON THE PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH VOWELS BY SPEAKERS OF KOREAN: AN ACOUSTIC STUDY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-08)This study investigates the production of Korean and English front vowels by ninety-one Koreans, based on their arrival age to the U.S., length of residence in the U.S. and degree of motivation. Subjects' Korean and English ... -
NON-NATIVE SPEAKER COLLOCATIONS: A CORPUS-DRIVEN CHARACTERIZATION FROM THE WRITING OF NATIVE SPEAKERS OF MANDARIN
(University of Texas Arlington, 1997-12)Non-native speaker difficulty in producing collocations (i.e., domain-specific recurrent word combinations) is widely acknowledged (see, e.g., Bahns 19 9, Channel 1981, Farghal and Obiedat 1995, Gitsaki 1996, and Zughoul ...