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The Acquisition of Productive Rules in Child and Adult Language Learners
(Georgetown University, 2017)
In natural language, evidence suggests that, while some rules are productive (regular), applying broadly to new words, others are restricted to a specific set of lexical items (irregular). Further, the literature suggests ...
A longitudinal study on the role of lexical stress and motivation in the perception and production of L2 Spanish stop consonants
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This study investigated the perception and production of two L2 stop consonants, examining the importance of lexical stress and motivation to learners' ability to discriminate and produce Spanish /b/ and /p/. Longitudinal ...
A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigation of Different Aptitudes for L2 Grammar in Learners Equated for Proficiency Level
(Georgetown University, 2008)
The declarative/ procedural (DP) model (Ullman, 2004), a neurocognitive model, posits that for late-learned second languages (L2s), both lexicon and grammar initially depend on declarative memory. With increased exposure, ...
The Measurement of the Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency of Written Arabic
(Georgetown University, 2017)
This study investigates the multicomponential nature of L2 Arabic writing by adapting a number of direct measures of linguistic complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) to the measurement of written Arabic texts produced ...
Power through Participation: A sociolinguistic approach to identifying leadership in executive education classroom discourse
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Studies of power in professionals’ relationships are generally situated in the workplace (e.g. Holmes & Chiles, 2010; Schnurr & Chan, 2011). Inspired by this work, I extend the study of power to interactions between ...
Out of the Country, Out of the Closet: Positioning in Gay Immigrants' Coming-Out Stories
(Georgetown University, 2017)
Queer coming out is widely discussed and theorized in the West. While the research on coming out has explored many of its aspects ranging from parental reactions (Denes & Afifi, 2014; Fields, 2001) to online identity ...
A Principled Cognitive Linguistics Account of English Phrasal Verbs
(Georgetown University, 2014)
There have long been attempts to discover some systematicity in the semantics of English phrasal verbs. However, previous research has focused exclusively on the contribution of the multiple meanings of the prepositions ...
Level of Intake, Depth of Processing, and Type of Linguistic Item in L2 Development
(Georgetown University, 2014)
L2 learners must employ selective attention minimally to isolate linguistic features in input to be able to take them in. Based on previous theoretical postulations and empirical research, Leow (forthcoming) postulates ...
Le strategie di gestione dell'errore nel contesto della glottodidattica delle lingue neolatine
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Second Language Acquisition is a relatively new field that has exponentially grown in its forty years. One of the areas that has rapidly developed is the study of error correction in classroom interaction, or corrective ...
Sociophonetic Variation at the Intersection of Gender, Region, and Style in Japanese Female Speech
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This dissertation is a sociophonetic study of 46 female Japanese speakers from three major metropolitan regions: Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. While previous work on Japanese Women's Language assumes a monolithic speech variety, ...