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Learning Board Game Rules from an Instruction Manual

Mills, Chad (2013-07-25)

Board game rulebooks offer a convenient scenario for extracting a systematic logical structure from a passage of text since the mechanisms by which board game pieces interact must be fully specified in the rulebook and ...
Leveraging Training Data from High-Resource Languages to Improve Dependency Parsing for Low-Resource Languages

Jaja, Claire

Dependency parsing is an important natural language processing (NLP) task with many downstream applications, and as is common in the field, high accuracy results can be obtained when using statistical methods and training ...
Lexical effects in Japanese vowel reduction

Shirai, Setsuko (2005)

This dissertation reports the results of a study of a vowel reduction in Japanese. Vowel reduction (durational and spectral) has been observed in many languages; however, only a few studies have been conducted research on ...
Loanwords, prominence and the basis for Mongolian vowel harmony

Puthuval, Sarala (2013-07-25)

The standard analysis of Modern Mongolian vowel harmony is as rightward spreading of the features [pharyngeal] and [round] starting from the first syllable of the word. Because Mongolian has exclusively suffixing morphology ...
Markers of contrast in Russian: A corpus-based study

Gracheva, Varya (2013-07-25)

Markers of contrast in Russian: A corpus-based study
A minimalist account of optional wh-movement

Denham, Kristin E (1997)

Wh-movement has been assumed to be a parametrized fact about language, and, thus, whether a language has overt wh-movement or not has been assumed to be invariant within a language. Also, Chomsky's recent Minimalist Program ...
An optimality theoretic analysis of Nicaraguan Spanish diminutivization: results of a field survey

Miranda, Ine︠s Miranda (1999)

The goals of the present investigation of diminutive formation in Nicaraguan Spanish were twofold: to collect a solid corpus of data defining a clear pattern of diminutive formation in terms of preference and variability, ...
Phonetics and phonology of Unangan (Eastern Aleut) intonation

Taff, Alice (1999)

This dissertation gives the first detailed description of the phonetics and phonology of the intonation system of Unangan (Eastern Aleut), an indigenous Alaskan language. Twelve fluent speakers were recorded giving ...
Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon

Moran, Steven Paul (2013-04-17)

In this dissertation, I investigate the linguistic and technological challenges involved in creating a cross-linguistic data set to undertake phonological typology. I then address the question of whether more sophisticated, ...
The Phonetics of Tone in Two Dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan)

Miller, Julia Colleen (2013-07-25)

This dissertation is an investigation of acoustic properties of lexical tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan). The noteworthy mirror-image tone systems of the H-marked Doig and L-marked Halfway dialects provide a ...
Prosody, intelligibility and familiarity in speech perception

McCloy, Daniel Robert (2013-07-25)

This thesis concerns the relationship between speech intelligibility and speech prosody, and the role that speech prosody plays in the perceptual advantage that occurs when listening to a familiar talker. A parallel corpus ...
Proto-Mazatec phonology

Kirk, Paul Livingston, 1927- (1966)
Referential morphology in signed languages

McBurney, Susan Lloyd (2004)

This thesis examines the use of space for reference in signed languages. In American Sign Language, as well as in all other signed languages that have been studied, locations in the signing space are used to represent ...
The relative degree of difficulty of L2 Spanish /d, t/, trill, and tap by L1 English speakers: auditory and acoustic methods of defining pronunciation accuracy

Waltmunson, Jeremy C (2005)

This study has investigated the L2 acquisition of Spanish word-medial /d, t, r, (fish hook)/, word-initial /r/, and onset cluster /(fish hook)/. Two similar experiments were designed to address the relative degree of ...
Rethinking the syntactic constraints on Fuzhou tone sandhi: a Distributed Morphology-based approach

Tanenbaum, Russell (2013-02-25)

The tone sandhi patterns of Fuzhou are sensitive to grammatical relations that hold between elements of an intonational phrase, more so than in any other dialect of Chinese. Hung (1987) noted that Fuzhou tone sandhi observed ...
Retroflex and Non-retroflex Merger in Shanghai Accented Mandarin

Zhu, Liyi (2012-09-13)

The Mandarin spoken in Shanghai differs in some aspects from the Mandarin spoken in Beijing. One of the most notable differences is a merging of the retroflex consonants with the non-retroflex ones (Zheng, Sproat, Gu, ...
Rhetorical Counterfactuals

Sano, Kyoko (2013-02-25)

Among the non-standard counterfactuals is a "rhetorical counterfactual" found in the old Japanese literature, which has a different interpretation from the standard counterfactuals. The rhetorical counterfactual was defined ...
The Semantics of Implicitly Relational Predicates

McCloy, Daniel Robert (2014-01-27)

This thesis offers a semantic account of implicitly relational predicates — adjectival or nominal predicates such as to be popular and to be a wanted man. Implicitly relational predicates are characterized by unique ...
The Syntactic Exponence of Sentential Negation: a model for the LinGO Grammar Matrix

Crowgey, Joshua David (2013-04-17)

This thesis presents a revision of the LinGO Grammar Matrix library for sentential negation along with supporting arguments from syntactic and typological literature. A cross-linguistic model of representations in HPSG ...
Unsupervised Morphological Word Clustering

Lushtak, Sergei A. (2013-04-17)

This thesis describes a system which clusters the words of a given lexicon into conflation sets (sets of morphologically related words). The word clustering is based on clustering of suffixes, which, in turn, is based on ...

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