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Proto-Mazatec phonology
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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 ... -
Historical syntax of the English articles in relation to the count/non-count distinction
(1996)This dissertation focuses on functional nodes within the structure of the English noun phrase. The count/non-count distinction affects multiple aspects of the syntax of noun phrases, but the syntactic basis for that ... -
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 ... -
Clausal case marking in Korean
(1998)This dissertation investigates morphological features of Korean complementizers -ko and -nun. I propose that -ko and -nun are the realizations of accusative and genitive, respectively. The configurations in which the ... -
An optimality theoretic analysis of Nicaraguan Spanish diminutivization: results of a field survey
(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
(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 ... -
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 ... -
The imperfective paradox in the English progressive and other semantic course corrections
(2000)The topic of this work is semantic course corrections. I use this term to refer to a discourse-level phenomenon that sheds light on a number of puzzles in semantics and pragmatics at the level of the sentence. At issue ... -
Functional categories and the acquisition of aspect in L2 Spanish: a longitudinal study
(2000)This dissertation is concerned with the interaction between morphosyntax and semantics in examining how L2 learners acquire the form-meaning relationship of Spanish aspect, i.e. mastering the preterit and imperfect past ... -
The acquisition of Spanish gender by English-speaking children in partial immersion setting
(2004)This study investigates how English-speaking 5--7 year olds in a Spanish immersion program acquire the Spanish gender system.Perez-Pereira (1991) has shown that native Spanish-speaking children do not attend to semantic ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Japanese gapping in minimalist syntax
(2006)This dissertation investigates an elliptical construction called Gapping in Japanese. Gapping is the omission of a predicate in clauses that are conjoined. The study focuses on capturing the correlation between Gapping ... -
Automatic Detection Of Language Levels in L2 English Learners
(2012-08-10)This study analyzes different features which would enable classifiers to detect language levels in adult second language (L2) English Learners. Approximately 46 different speech samples from users speaking 15 different ... -
It's Only Morpho-Logical: Modeling Agreement in Cross-Linguistic Dependency Parsing
(2012-08-10)I propose a linguistically motivated set of features to model morphological agreement and add them to MSTParser, a graph-based dependency parser (McDonald et al., 2006). Compared to the parser's built-in morphological ... -
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, ... -
Array TFS storage for unification grammars
(2012-09-13)Constraint-based grammar formalisms such as Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) model linguistic entities as sets of attribute-value tuples headed by types drawn from a connected multiple-inheritance hierarchy. ... -
Attitudes Toward Korean-Accented and Korean American English
(2012-09-13)This thesis investigates the contributions of specific phonetic variables in the speech of native Korean L2 English speakers to perceptions of accentedness clarity. By correlating listeners' attitudinal responses with ...