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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
PROTO EAST MINDANAO AND ITS INTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-12)This study reconstructs Proto East Mindanao, the ancestor language from which the East Mindanao languages have developed. This is accomplished by tracing the development from the ancestor language through the intermediate ... -
PROTO-QUICHEAN KINSHIP
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)The Quichean languages are comprised of a family of related languages of the Mayan stock, spoken principally in the highlands of Guatemala in Central America. Some of the kinship terminologies currently in use by the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...