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Articulating Non-Native Vowel Contrasts
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The goal of this dissertation is to better understand the targets of vowels in speech production. Three experiments investigate vowel production in non-native speech, probing how new vowel categories, and thus targets, are ...
Local International School Students: Identity and Language Learning Investments
(Georgetown University, 2021)
International schools often use English as the medium of instruction and include large student populations of expatriate children with parents in globally mobile professions, who decided that the local education would not ...
Experiments on Approaches to Named Entity Recognition in IsiZulu
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Named Entity Recognition (NER) has always been one significant part of Natural Language Processing technologies. This thesis investigates a range of approaches to address the NER task in isiZulu, a morphologically complex ...
The Category of Gender in Spanish–English Bilingual Grammars: Corpus and Experimental Evidence of Switched Determiner Phrases
(Georgetown University, 2021)
This dissertation is about the category of gender in bilingual grammars. The specific focus is on the interplay between the linguistic properties that correlate with gender assignment in Spanish–English codeswitched speech ...
A Systematic Investigation of the Spanish Subjunctive: Mood Variation in Subjunctive Clauses
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Standard Spanish grammar states that desideratives (querer que), directives (aconsejar que ), purpose clauses (para que), causatives (hacer que), emotive-factives (alegrarse de que), negated epistemics (no creer que), ...
Decolonizing by Design: Black Feminist Scholarship, Critical Applied Linguistics, and a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies in Beginning and Intermediate German-Language Instruction
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Spurred by interests as divergent as national security, increased language proficiency, an elite education, and the futurity of a profession, documented diversity discourses have been a recognized and salient aspect of ...
Linguistic Interpretability and Composition of Abstract Meaning Representations
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks require some implicit representation of meaning. Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR; Banarescu et al., 2013) aims to be a scalable way ...
Illocution on Twitter: The Construction and Analysis of a Social Media Speech Act Corpus
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In the years since J.L. Austin (1962) first proposed Speech Act Theory (SAT), the literature has taken it in many directions. One recurring point of discussion is the extent to which the direct illocutionary force of an ...
There's No Pride in Anti-Semitism": Framing the 2019 DC Dyke March Ban of the Jewish Pride Flag through Facebook Comments
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In this study, I investigate the ways in which Facebook users, through public comments they post on an LGBTQ+ organization’s page, multimodally construct diverse interpretations and meanings of an event. Bringing together ...
Cara Italia:l’espressione dell’identità multiculturale nella musica rap e trap italiana
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In the past fifteen years, the Italian rap and trap music scene has experienced significant changes due to the entrance of artists who have foreign heritage. Called “second-generation rappers and trappers,” these musicians ...