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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ...