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Korean Learners' Long-Term Individual Networks of Practice
This dissertation examines investment in language learning, especially how that investment looks over the entirety of a learner’s target language-related journey. It investigates investment, in terms of positive and negative ... -
Labeling and Automatically Identifying Basic-Level Categories
Basic-level categories are the primary categories humans use to think and communicate; they are the first categories learned, with numerous psychological advantages including quick exemplar recognition time. They are ... -
Language attitudes and bilingualism in Turkish-German popular film
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine attitudes towards Turkish-German language mixing. Lambert (1967), Lippi-Green (1997) and Preston (2010) have shown that stereotypes about groups of people can be expressed ... -
Language Dataset Documentation Design: Learning from Deaf and Indigenous Communities
This dissertation investigates how engaging with stakeholder groups, namely natural language processing (NLP) practitioners and language communities, can contribute to the development of documentation toolkits that are ... -
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 ... -
Latent Compositional Representations for English Function Word Comprehension
This paper investigates whether biasing natural language models toward tree-compositional structure and systematic token representation can improve performance on tasks that require the use of function words. The method ... -
Learning Board Game Rules from an Instruction Manual
(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
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
(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 ... -
A lexical interpretive theory with emphasis on the role of subject
(1981)This thesis purports, primarily, to introduce a lexical interpretive theory and to show that this theory accounts for the syntactic phenomena of two radically different language types, English and Japanese. The role of ... -
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 ... -
Loanwords, prominence and the basis for Mongolian vowel harmony
(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
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A minimalist account of optional wh-movement
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Modals in Natural Language Optimize the Simplicity/Informativeness Trade-Off
The meanings expressed by the world’s languages have been argued to support efficient communication. Evidence for this hypothesis has drawn on cross-linguistic analyses of vocabulary in semantic domains of both content ... -
Modeling Adnominal Possession in the LinGO Grammar Matrix
This thesis describes the expansion of the LinGO Grammar Matrix customization system with a library handling adnominal possession. This library extends the Grammar Matrix's ability to aid in the rapid prototyping of precision ... -
Modeling the Perceptual Learning of Novel Dialect Features
All language use reflects the user's social identity in systematic ways. While humans can easily adapt to this sociolinguistic variation, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems continue to struggle with it. This ... -
Multi-predicate Constructions in Nuuchahnulth
This dissertation documents and models two types of multi-predicate constructions in Nuuchahnulth: serial verb constructions, and a construction involving the suffix -(q)ḥ, which is called the predicate linker. I define a ... -
Named Entity Resolution for Historical Texts
The field of digital humanities has spurred an increase in applications of computational lin- guistics to historical documents, but the field remains underdeveloped. Standard natural language processing (NLP) techniques ...