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Parallel Sentence Detection in Comparable Corpora with Bilingual Word Embeddings for Low-resource Languages
In an emergency, machine translation systems can be useful in facilitating international cooperation during rescue efforts. Unfortunately, training resources (bitexts) for many language pairs are scarce and tend to comprise ... -
Phonetics and phonology of Unangan (Eastern Aleut) intonation
(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
(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 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 ... -
The Phonetics of Tone in Two Dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan)
(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 ... -
Polyglot Text Classification with Neural Document Models
Sometimes, annotating data for text classification is expensive, so one must rely on techniques like parameter sharing and semi-supervised learning to improve classification performance in low-resource environments. In ... -
Productivity, influence, and evolution: The complex language shift of Modern Ladino
This dissertation uses data from interviews with Seattle Ladino speakers, an online forum in Ladino, and documents from the University of Washington Sephardic Studies Collection to investigate the language shift that Modern ... -
Pronouns Raising and Emerging
This dissertation revisits the question of the syntactic and semantic status of pronouns, incorporating new syntactic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic data to support an analysis of n-to-D head movement in the nominal domain. ... -
Prosody, intelligibility and familiarity in speech perception
(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
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Referential morphology in signed languages
(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
(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 ... -
Resourceful at Any Size: A Predictive Methodology Using Linguistic Corpus Metrics for Multi-Source Training in Neural Dependency Parsing
Multilingual modeling comes up in natural language processing at any scale. High-resource language corpora train high-performing models, and can be combined with other language corpora of all sizes to make better models ... -
Rethinking the syntactic constraints on Fuzhou tone sandhi: a Distributed Morphology-based approach
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Sandhi of /rs/ sequences in North Norrland Swedish
(1999)This dissertation investigates the phonology of /rs/-sandhi in North Norrland, the northernmost 40% of Sweden. North Norrland is of particular phonological interest because it is the locus of a neutralization between the ... -
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 ... -
Semantic Operations for Transfer-based Machine Translation
This dissertation describes a new approach to the automatic extraction of semantic mappings (transfer rules) for rule-based machine translation. This approach continues previous work in combining HPSG rule-based grammars, ... -
Semantic Universals in Bayesian Learning of Quantifiers
Languages undoubtedly exhibit many surface differences; However, past works such as Goddard and Wierzbicka [1994] and von Fintel and Matthewson [2008] have identified semantic properties that are evident in a vast number ...