PhD Dissertations - DO NOT EDIT: Recent submissions
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LISTENING COMPREHENSION: ADULT SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1987-12)The goal of this work is to discover information that will improve the selection and design of listening comprehension materials for adult second language learners. Chapter 1 treats adult versus child language learning and ... -
INTERRELATIONS OF PROSODY, CLAUSE STRUCTURE AND DISCOURSE PRAGMATICS IN TARIFIT BERBER
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1996-08)The interconnections that exist among prosody, clause structure, and discourse pragmatics have been noted by many linguists (e.g., Halliday 1967; Givon 1983; Longacre 1983). These interconnections have included such phenomena ... -
FACILITATIVE OR FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR ADULT LEARNERS TO ACQUIRE ORAL PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-12)Social interaction in the language classroom has been said to contribute to the acquisition of oral proficiency in a target language by presumably facilitating comprehension and learner production through negotiation of ... -
COMPUTER ASSISTED DIALECT ADAPTATION: THE TUCANOAN EXPERIMENT
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)This dissertation provides the theoretical basis for a computer program that adapts textual material from one language of the Tucanoan family to another. Tucanoan languages are spoken by small groups living in southeastern ... -
AN ARGUMENT FOR THE LUKAN AUTHORSHIP OF HEBREWS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1987-12)The question of the authorship of the New Testament epistle to the Hebrews has provided scholars with fertile ground for speculation from the earliest days of Church history until the present time. The purpose of this ... -
A STUDY OF ICONICITY IN KOREAN: WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO LONG AND SHORT FORMS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1989-12)This study of iconicity if Korean has examined the iconic relationship (non-arbitrariness) between form and meaning in phonology, morphology, and syntax. There are many pairs of linguistic expressions that carry roughly ... -
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 ... -
A GRAMMAR OF TWO PACOH TEXTS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-12)The goals of this grammar are threefold: first to learn more about the Pacoh language of Viet Nam and leave a record of the results for future students of Pacoh; second, to learn more about discourse structure, and third, ... -
A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF THE RHETORICAL STRUCTURE EMPLOYED IN ENGLISH TEXTS BY NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND NATIVE SPEAKERS OF SPANISH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1996-08)It has often been observed that students of English as a second language not only speak with a foreign accent but write with a distinctively foreign accent as well. Two apparently conflicting theories have been proposed ... -
Automatic processing of tonal information during visual word recognition in L2 Chinese learners
(2020-08-10)This dissertation investigates the automatic tonal processing in a second language (L2) and a first language (L1) during visual word recognition. Four experiments were conducted to examine -- (i) whether tonal information ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
THE PLACE DEIXIS OF MODERN STANDARD ARABIC: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE DIMENSIONAL SYSTEM AND THE FACTORS THAT CONTROL THE CHOICE OF PLACE DEICTIC EXPRESSIONS
(2020-08-10)This dissertation investigates place deixis in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) focusing primarily on two issues, 1) examining the dimensional system of place deixis in MSA as opposed to Classical Arabic, and 2) exploring the ... -
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 ... -
“‘WELL I DON’T LIKE ABORTION’ WELL THEN DON’T HAVE ONE”: A CORPUS-ASSISTED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE STANCE FUNCTIONS OF SOME DISCOURSE MARKERS IN MEDIATED ABORTION DEBATE
(2019-07-22)This dissertation examines the use of discourse markers as a stance-taking resource in written discourse on abortion. Drawing from four corpora collected from editorials, blogs, Twitter, and Reddit, I focus on the discourse ... -
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 ... -
A Comparative Tone Analysis of Several Bantu D30 Languages (DR Congo)
(2018-05-23)This dissertation presents an analysis of the tonal systems of the Bantu D30 languages. There are 34 Bantu D languages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), few of which have developed orthographies (Lewis, Simons, ... -
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 ... -
#TWITTERDISCOURSEMARKERS: A CORPORA BASED STUDY OF THE PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF HASHTAGS
(2017-08-11)In this dissertation, I posit that hashtags can function as discourse markers, where space constraints of 140 characters on Twitter complicate their realization. Through the progression of research questions that shape ...