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Second Language Acquisition of Variable Use of the Nominative and Accusative Case Morphemes in Korean: A Corpus Study
(Georgetown University, 2018)
The goal of this dissertation is to examinethe the second language (L2) acquisition of variable use of nominative/accusative case morphemes by English- or Japanese-speaking adult learners of Korean.
Voicing Belief: Constructed Dialogue and Epistemics in Religious Discourse
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Wuthnow (2012) notes that in the modern West, “talk about the supernatural is problematic and thus requires construction in ways that reinforce its reasonableness” (296). Thus, many religious communities sense constant ...
Hizbullah’s Secretary General Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah and ‘What It Means To Be Lebanese’
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This paper presents an analysis of how Hizbullah’s Secretary General Nasrallah attempts to project an alternative to existing versions of a Lebanese national identity, based on an analysis of a selection of his speeches ...
A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Explaining the Polysemy of ‘alā and fī in Modern Standard Arabic
(Georgetown University, 2018)
‘Alā ‘on’ and fī ‘in’ are two of the most polysemous Arabic prepositions. Previous accounts have varied in the range of meanings attributed to ‘alā and fī. In addition, many have viewed prepositions, including ‘alā and ...
How To Synchronize? A Study of Video-Based, Voice-Based & Text-Based Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication, Working Memory, and Second Language Learning
(Georgetown University, 2018)
The growing presence of Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (SCMC), defined as ‘real-time, synchronous conversation that takes place online’ (Baralt & Leow, 2016, p. 200), via video-chat programs such as Skype in ...
Cognitive Task Complexity, Foreign Language Anxiety and L2 Performance in Spanish: A Task-Based Language Teaching Perspective
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Although cognitive psychology literature (e.g., Derakshan & Eysenck, 2009) has demonstrated the detrimental effects anxiety has on cognitive processes, this relationship has barely been investigated in the SLA field (e.g., ...
The Enregisterment of Dialects in Japanese YouTube Comments: A Comparative Analysis
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This study contextualizes the explosive valorization and commodification of dialect in Japan since the 1980s, known as the “dialect boom”, in terms of Japanese social and economic issues and the growing public interest in ...
Accounting for Diphthongs: Duration as Contrast in Vowel Dispersion Theory
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This dissertation investigates the production and perception properties of diphthong vowels at different speech rates in order to advance the understanding of diphthong phonetics and to incorporate diphthongs into the ...
Reciprocity in Online Social Interactions: Three Longitudinal Case Studies of a Video-mediated Japanese-English ETandem Exchange
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Reciprocity is a key principle of eTandem, a telecollaborative arrangement where learners of different native languages meet online and use one language during half of the session and then do the same for the other language. ...
Corpus-Based Study of the Grammaticalization and Semantic Networks of Chinese Guo and Le
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Due to their polysemous nature and inter-lexical polysemy (Evans, 2015), Chinese guo (過/过) and le (了) have proven to be two of the most closely related and most puzzling linguistic items for linguists to describe and L2 ...