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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 ... -
The Semantics of Implicitly Relational Predicates
(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 ... -
Simplifying Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Single Eye Movement Modality
Multimodal emotion recognition has long been a popular topic in affective computing since it significantly enhances the performance compared with that of a single modality. Among all, the combination of electroencephalography ... -
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, ... -
Sociolinguistic and Phonetic Perception of Second Language Mandarin Chinese
Perception of second language (L2) speakers and their speech is known to be influenced both by phonetic and by sociolinguistic factors. The existing body of scholarly research on L2 speech perception, however, is overwhelmingly ... -
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 ... -
Speech to Text to Semantics: A Sequence-to-Sequence System for Spoken Language Understanding
Spoken language understanding entails both the automatic transcription of a speech utterance and the identification of one or more semantic concepts being conveyed by the utterance. Traditionally these systems are domain ... -
Stylistic variation in African American Language: examining the social meaning of linguistic features in a Seattle community
Linguistic features associated with African American Language (AAL) may have a large set of ideological and functional meanings beyond ethnic identity. While sociolinguists know a lot, comparatively, about regional and ... -
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 ... -
The Syntactic Exponence of Sentential Negation: a model for the LinGO Grammar Matrix
(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 ... -
The Acoustic Cues at Prosodic Boundaries in Mandarin
Prosodic boundary labeling is an important task not only for its direct application in speech synthesis but also for constructing speech corpora for speech synthesis. However, due to the lack of quantitive study on Mandarin ...