Browsing Department of Linguistics & TESOL by Author "Witzel, Jeffrey D."

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    • EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF TWO DIAGNOSTICS OF KOREAN UNACCUSATIVITY 

      Allman, JungAe Lee (2016-01-14)
      According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH), intransitive verbs can be divided into two classes: unaccusative verbs (e.g. fall) and unergative verbs (e.g. dance) (Burzio 1986, Perlmutter 1978). Several approaches have ...

    • INDEPENDENT SOURCES OF RELATIVE CLAUSE PROCESSING DIFFICULTY: EVIDENCE FROM RUSSIAN 

      Price, Iya Khelm (2016-05-11)
      This study investigates the influence of syntactic, semantic, and frequency-of-occurrence information, as well as role of memory in the comprehension of complex sentences. This was done by examining the processing of Russian ...

    • PLAUSIBILITY AND STRUCTURAL REANALYSIS 

      Lee, Ju-Young (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, ...

    • Processing L2 scripts in highly-proficient bilinguals 

      Shafiee Zargar, Ehsan (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 ...

    • Retrieval processes in subject-verb agreement computation 

      Eversole, Nathaniel James (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 ...