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Language maintenance and shift across generations in Inner Mongolia
Language shift happens when a group of people stops using one language in favor of another, such that subsequent generations no longer acquire the original language. Research on the sociolinguistics of language shift has ... -
The semantic variability of the emphatic construction koso -e in Old Japanese
There is an interesting emphatic construction (called a koso –e construction) in Old Japanese, in which the focus particle koso concords with the exclamatory (-e) sentence ending form. When koso focuses on an irrealis/subjunctive ... -
Three Cheers For Partisanship: Lexical Framing and Applause in U.S. Presidential Primary Debates
Polarization in American politics is at its highest levels in recent history. This polarization can be observed not only in the behaviors of citizens and the politicians who represent them, but also in the rhetoric that ... -
Information Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support
Within the field of clinical support, access to relevant, peer-reviewed information from medical journals and other research publications is critical to making informed decisions regarding the diagnosis and care of patients. ... -
Submodular data selection in ASR language modeling
Given the vast amount of textual data that we have available today, it is very beneficial to have an efficient methodology to filter and select important and relevant chunks of this data to improve current natural language ... -
Defining, Extracting, and Applying Events in NLP Tasks for Clinical Corpora
This dissertation explores defining, extracting, and applying clinical events in three studies of applied clinical natural language processing (NLP)---pneumonia report classification, acquired lung injury (ALI) report ... -
From Aari to Zulu: Massively Multilingual Creation of Language Tools using Interlinear Glossed Text
This dissertation examines the suitability of Interlinear Glossed Text (IGT) as a computational, semi-structured resource for creating NLP tools for resource-poor languages, with a focus on the tasks of word alignment, ... -
East Uvean A condensed grammar
East Uvean (EUV), also called Faka’Uvea or le wallisien, is a Polynesian language of the Austronesian family, spoken on Wallis Island (‘Uvea) in the French collectivity of Wallis and Futuna, as well as by populations in ... -
How peripheral a phenomenon is it?: On the interaction of DP-internal ellipsis, degree inversion, and islands
In this dissertation I set out to solve a series of puzzles related to the notion of a DP periphery, defined as an area around the edge of a given domain targeted by operations such as movement and agreement. In solving ... -
Automated Gloss Mapping for Inferring Grammatical Properties
This thesis describes a software system that maps glosses from interlinear glossed text (IGT) to an internally consistent set. This study hypothesizes that mapping glosses supports better inference of grammatical properties. ... -
Endangered languages, technology and learning: A Yakama/Yakima Sahaptin case study
Efforts to support Indigenous and endangered language education continue to utilize technology in a variety of ways. As the vitality of many languages around the world continues to be threatened, it is important to reassess ... -
The diachronic development of passive constructions from Archaic Chinese to Modern Mandarin
In this dissertation, I study the diachronic development of passive construction from Archaic Chinese to Modern Mandarin. I classify the passive forms into two major groups: 1) the monoclausal passive. 2) the biclausal ... -
Southern, Texan, or Both?: Southernness and Identity in Deer Park, Texas
Perceptual dialectology researchers have reported that in “draw-a-map” tasks focused on non-linguists’ perceptions of dialect regions, the South is one of the most commonly identified regions in the United States, and that ... -
Mixed Gender Agreement in Russian DPs
This thesis provides a new account of mixed gender agreement in Russian, incorporating the joint strengths of several previous accounts. Mixed agreement results when some elements in a sentence agree with the grammatical ... -
The Phonetics of Stance-taking
Stance -- attitudes and opinions about the topic of discussion -- has been investigated textually in conversation- and discourse analysis and in computational models, but little work has focused on its acoustic-phonetic ... -
Second Language Acquisition of Korean Case by Learners with Different First Languages
This dissertation examines the role of L2 learners’ first language (L1) in acquiring a target morpho-syntactic feature (case) and learner perceptions of the L2 grammar, specifically, Korean case and case particles. In ... -
Faculty Attitudes Towards Heritage Language and Heritage Language Teaching Policy in Washington State Community College Spanish Departments
Felix (2009) and Potowski (2002) have shown that negative attitudes about Heritage language can impact Heritage speakers in the classroom. This paper describes research carried out to assess the attitudes toward Heritage ... -
A Linguist-Friendly Machine Translation System for Low-Resource Languages
Low-resource languages have largely been left out of the machine translation revolution. Speakers would benefit from machine translation for many different tasks if it were available. Because of insufficient text data, the ... -
New Methods for Detecting Deceptive Product Reviews
With the explosion of online shopping sites, there has been a proliferation of businesses offering to post positive product reviews in exchange for payment. The presence of these deceptive reviews transforms a product's ... -
The Social Distribution of a Regional Change: /æg, ɛg, eg/ in Washington State
Recent studies at the University of Washington as part of the Pacific Northwest English (PNWE) Study have found that Washingtonians are raising /æ, ɛ/ before /g/ (e.g. "bag", "beg"), known as 'pre-velar raising' (Wassink, ...
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