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Phonetic variation in Washington DC: Race, neighborhood, and gender
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This dissertation explores the speech of African American and European American residents in the District of Columbia, approaching from both variationist and discourse-analytic perspectives. The study investigates the ...
The interaction of modality and tense in Korean
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This dissertation examines the interpretations of modal expressions in Korean, focusing on their interaction with tense. I look at two specific modal constructions in Korean that clearly show modal-tense interactions. One ...
Negotiating Power through Tag Questions in Crisis Negotiations
(Georgetown University, 2016)
Crisis negotiation is a unique form of law enforcement–civilian interaction, as the crime is ongoing at the time of the exchange. Consequently, crisis negotiators have the opportunity to positively influence the outcome ...
Read all about it: A linguistic analysis of the media's construction of rape
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This paper investigates the way the media discusses the topic of rape, with respect to both its overall distribution and description in a spoken news corpus, as well as a qualitative analysis of a more recent article. Past ...
Inferred Propositions and the Expression of the Evidence Relation in Natural Language: Evidentiality in Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo and English
(Georgetown University, 2012)
<italic>Evidentiality</italic> has usually been defined as the grammaticalized expression
Cognitive linguistics approach to semantics of spatial relations in Korean
(Georgetown University, 2012)
All languages have some ways to talk about the spatial relationship between two entities: a trajector (TR) and a landmark (LM) (Langacker 1987). Every language uses some combination of linguistic mechanisms (prepositions, ...
Automatic presentation of sense-specific lexical information in an intelligent learning system
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Learning vocabulary and understanding texts present difficulty for language learners due to, among other things, the high degree of lexical ambiguity. By developing an intelligent tutoring system, this dissertation examines ...
THE EFFECT OF PHONETICS INSTRUCTION ON ADULT LEARNERS' PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF L2 SOUNDS
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Traditional pronunciation instruction and instruction in second language (L2) phonetics have been shown to improve learners' L2 accent in some, though certainly not all, cases. Learners in intermediate and advanced Spanish ...
Language variation and change in an Amdo Tibetan village: Gender, education and resistance
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This dissertation examines variation in the realization of the final bilabial nasal (m) among speakers of Amdo Tibetan farmer dialect. The bilabial nasal (m) in words like lam `road', for example, neutralizes with the ...
ACHIEVEMENT, ASSESSMENT, AND LEARNING: A STUDY OF EMERGENT BILINGUAL STUDENTS IN MAINSTREAM CONTENT CLASSROOMS
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This dissertation investigates and problematizes emergent bilingual students' achievement gaps in an existing corpus of middle-school science assessment data. I first characterize achievement gaps across national data, ...