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THE MORPHOSYNTAX OF GENDER AND WORD CLASS IN SPANISH: EVIDENCE FROM -(C)ITO/A DIMINUTIVES
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Since the inception of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz, 1993), there have been two notable, but preliminary, analyses of Spanish gender and word class within this framework: Harris (1999) and Kramer (2015). This ...
Factors Affecting Proficiency Among Gujarati Heritage Language Learners on Three Continents
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This dissertation examines the causes behind the differences in proficiency in the North Indian language Gujarati among heritage learners of Gujarati in three diaspora locations. In particular, I focus on whether there is ...
Telling Disability: Identity Construction in Personal and Vicarious Narratives
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This study examines the construction of disability identities in personal and vicarious narratives. Sociolinguistic research on narrative focuses largely on personal narrative (Schiffrin 1996); some studies claim that ...
Gesture in Multiparty Interaction: A Study of Embodied Discourse in Spoken English and American Sign Language
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This dissertation is an examination of gesture in two game nights: one in spoken English between four hearing friends and another in American Sign Language between four Deaf friends. Analyses of gesture have shown there ...
APPLYING AN ARGUMENT-BASED APPROACH FOR VALIDATING LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENTS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION RESEARCH: THE ELICITED IMITATION TEST FOR RUSSIAN
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This dissertation was motivated by the need for practical suggestions as to what can be done to improve L2 proficiency assessment practices in SLA research. In response, it is proposed that an argument-based approach to ...
The Language of Professional Blackness: African American English at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Class in Southeast, Washington, D.C.
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Increasingly, studies of African American English (AAE) include in their scope the speech of upper and middle-class African Americans (Rahman 2008; Weldon 2011; Alim and Smitherman 2012; Weldon and Britt forthcoming), ...
L2 acquisition of number marking: a bidirectional study of adult learners of Korean and Indonesian
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This study investigates the L2 acquisition of the Korean and Indonesian number systems by adult learners in light of the Feature-Reassembly Approach (henceforth FRA, Lardiere 2009). In considering this approach, Montrul ...
FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF EMOJIS IN WHATSAPP INTERACTION AMONG OMANIS
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This study examines the forms and functions of emojis as used by Omani men and women friends and relatives in messages exchanged on the Instant Messaging application called WhatsApp. Emojis, or “picture characters,” are a ...
Synchronous Computer-mediated Communication and Interaction: A Research Synthesis and Meta-analysis
(Georgetown University, 2013)
The interaction approach to second language acquisition (SLA) suggests that changes that occur during conversation facilitate second language development by providing learners with opportunities to receive modified ...
SECOND LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF DERIVATIONAL AND INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN ENGLISH
(Georgetown University, 2015)
This dissertation investigates how later second language (L2) learners process derivational and inflectional morphology to explore whether later L2 learners can develop lexical or syntactic representations qualitatively ...