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Questions In American Sign Language: A Quantitative Analysis Of Raised And Lowered Eyebrows
(Linguistics, 2008-08-08)Although much of linguistic information in American Sign Language (ASL) is conveyed through nonmanual signals, the majority of more than 40 years of research focuses on manual signs. As a result, we are just beginning to ... -
A Reanalysis of Bidirectionality in Auca
(Department of Linguistics, California State University, FresnoDepartment of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2000)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** -
Reconstraining massive pied-piping in English: A non-interrogative CP analysis
(2020-09-04)This dissertation focuses on the distribution of "massive pied-piping" (Heck 2008) constructions in English. Compared to other forms of wh-movement and pied-piping, broadly speaking, massive pied-piping is limited in the ... -
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: • ... -
Repair Negotiation By English L2 Learners
(Linguistics, 2013-03-20)It is widely accepted that L2 learners often face communication problems due to lack of competency in the target language and familiarity with its culture of origin. One way to resolve miscommunication problems is to seek ... -
Retrieval processes in subject-verb agreement computation
(2017-08-29)An important question in psycholinguistics is how subject-verb agreement is computed. One recent proposal is that memory retrieval processes play a key role in subject-verb agreement during sentence comprehension (Wagers ... -
Review of The Korean Alphabet of 1446
(Association for Asian Studies, 2003-05)Perhaps the most noteworthy product of Korean civilization, han'guil is a source of pride among Koreans: not only does it embody a sense of national uniqueness, but it is also a valuable tool against illiteracy. While ... -
Review of The Language of Speech and Writing
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Review of The Phonology of Portuguese
(LINGUIST List, 2001-06-09)As noted by its publisher in LINGUIST 12.390, The Phonology of Portuguese (TPP) provides "an accurate description of the phonological system of Portuguese"-referencing both European and Brazilian varieties, and seeks ... -
A Revised Phonology Of Kabiye Segments And Tone
(Linguistics, 2011-03-03)This study suggests revisions to the segmental and tonal phonology of Kabiye following a reanalysis of consonants, vowels, and tones in the speech of 7 male native speakers. Acoustic investigations are also included to ... -
SECONDARY PALATALIZATION IN ISTHMUS MIXE: A PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-12)This dissertation is a study of the process of palatalization in Isthmus Mixe, in which every consonant in the inventory has a palatalized counterpart. This type of palatalization occurring as a secondary [i]-like articulation, ... -
The Segments And Tones Of Soyaltepec Mazatec
(Linguistics, 2012-04-11)This dissertation describes the segments and tones of Soyaltepec Mazatec, an Oto-Manguean language of southern Mexico virtually undescribed in the literature with the exception of Pike (1956). The preliminary work done by ... -
Semantic incorporation as an account for some bare singular count noun uses in English
(2009)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This work investigates inter-related syntactic and semantic issues concerning bare singular count nouns (BSCNs) in English. I explore differences in interpretation, ... -
Semantico-pragmatic aspects of the metalinguistic uses of comparatives in Mandarin Chinese and English
(2023-08-23)This dissertation examines a group of Metalinguistic Comparatives (MCs) in Mandarin Chinese, exploring what they suggest about the universality of comparatives. I show that Chinese MCs encode a more fine-grained scalarity ... -
SENTENCE FINAL PARTICLES IN BISU NARRATIVE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2000-12)Particles are a vital component of many Asian languages. Nonetheless, they typically receive little treatment in grammatical studies. This may be due in part to the theoretical orientations of generative grammar which, ... -
SEX-BASED DIFFERENCES IN ENGLISH ARGUMENTATIVE TEXT: A TAGMEMIC SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)This work applies insights from sociolinguistics, text-linguistics, social psychology, women's studies, informal logic, and tagmemic theory to the task of investigating sex-based textual differences in argumentative text. ... -
A SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPARISON OF THE SYNTAX OF MODERN STANDARD ARABIC AND JORDANIAN ARABIC
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-08)This thesis investigates some of the syntactic differences between two forms of Arabic, the standard and the local vernacular of Petra. This vernacular has not been looked at from a syntactic perspective. The attempt here ... -
A SOCIOLINGUISTIC SURVEY OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AMONG THE SHIPIBO OF AMAZONIAN PERU
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1998-05)In the 1950s, the trend worldwide in public education was for classes to be conducted in the national (prestige) language. In Amazonian Peru however, an alternative was being considered: Bilingual Education (BE). Since ... -
SOME MAJOR ASPECTS OF THE FOCUS SYSTEM IN ISNAG
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-08)This study attempts to specify how the syntactic form signals the semantic and pragmatic aspects of the focus system in the Isnag language. It specifies the correlation between the semantics and grammar of focus by proposing ... -
Sounds Of Chinese Korean: A Variationist Approach
(Linguistics, 2008-08-08)This study approaches the understudied Chinese Korean from a variationist perspective, with an aim to capture the variation patterns and potential changes in the sounds of Chinese Korean. More specifically, three variables ...