Browsing Department of Linguistics & TESOL by Subject "Linguistics"
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Argument realization of Chinese result and phase complements
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)This paper discusses result complements and phase complements in Chinese, both of which are postverbal elements. Despite their surface similarity, they are different with respect to argument realization. While the result ... -
ATTITUDES OF NATIVE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PROFESSORS TOWARD UNIVERSITY ESL STUDENTS
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2000-08)This study focuses on native English-speaking business professors to explore issues of stereotyping and error gravity in terms of university ESL (English as a Second Language) students. Specifically, this dissertation has ... -
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Cheyenne Exercises
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Corpora for University Language Teachers
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F1 and center of gravity interplay in the maintenance of phonological height within a statistical model of a communal grammar: the case of Foodo [ATR] acoustics
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This paper presents the notion of an idealized or communal grammar as a statistical model of mode, mean or median as emerging from a representative number of a ... -
'Field linguistics' takes researchers to all parts of the globe
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Finding the "two" in diglossia
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Sociolinguists generally agree that a diglossic situation is one in which a single speech community employs two or more varieties of language, a H(igh) variety and ... -
Inquiries into Korean Linguistics V: Selected Works from the Eighteenth International Conference and the 2012 Xuzhou Conference on Linguistic Sciences
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Interactional Entanglements: A Frame Analysis of Negotiated Identities in Ethnographic Research on the Language Classroom
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)This study examines interactional entanglements that occurred during ethnographer-participant interactions in a language classroom. It draws upon Goffman's notion of framing to analyze how research participants use deixis ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Nous and On in Semi-formal French: Pragmatic Uses of Institutionality and Distancing
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-16)French linguists have long noted the substitution of the indefinite pronoun on for the 1st person plural pronoun nous, in both formal and informal situations. Studies of informal conversation have found this replacement ... -
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 ... -
Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee
(2018-09-10)In this dissertation, I provide an analysis for word level prosody in Cherokee, a Southern Iroquoian language spoken in Northeastern Oklahoma and Western North Carolina. Focusing on Cherokee as it is spoken in Oklahoma, I ... -
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 ... -
Speech Act, Evidentiality, and Implicature in the Korean Topic-Construction
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)Is it possible to map pragmatic or discourse-oriented features onto the syntax level? The Korean topic marker -(n)un has a contrastive reading that induces conventional implicature, and is closely associated with a modal ... -
Subjectless sentences in English
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: One of the goals of modern linguistics is to develop a model of Universal Grammar which captures natural language features that are universal, while also accounting ... -
The variable (th) in Dallas African American Vernacular English
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: It is well-known that African American Vernacular English (hereafter AAVE) displays regional variation. In the case of the (th) variable, Wolfram (1969) found that ...