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Contributions of Cross-linguistic Influence and Language Aptitude to the Perception and Production of L3 Spanish Labial Stops among Korean-English of Varying L3 Proficiency
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing interest in third language (L3) phonology (Cabrelli Amaro, 2012; Cabrelli Amaro & Wrembel, 2016). However, research so far has been primarily directed at specific ...
Positioning, Storylines, Master Narratives, and Intertextuality: Student Veteran Discourse about Decisions, Transitions, and Communities of Practice
(Georgetown University, 2022)
While existing research recognizes the importance of transitions in military members’ lives, there are few, and to my knowledge no micro-level discourse analytic, studies illuminating how military veterans talk about their ...
Examining the L2 Motivational Self System Through Meta-Analysis
(Georgetown University, 2022)
The present dissertation is a synthesis and meta-analysis of the 15-year-old research domain of the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) model initiated by Dörnyei (2005). The study is based on data from 100 studies involving ...
Cyclicity and Linearity in Morphology: The View from Icelandic, Gã, and Kabyle
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Much work in the generative tradition assumes that the grammatical architecture consists of independent modules. A number of interesting questions arise concerning the ways in which these modules communicate with one another ...
Needs for a Future in French: A Needs Analysis of Undergraduate French Majors at Georgetown University
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This exploratory study investigated the needs of undergraduate French and Francophone Studies majors at Georgetown University. This needs analysis sought to answer three questions: 1) What are the communicative needs of ...
“90% Sadness and 10% Schadenfreude”: Construction and Uptake of Nuanced Stances on Twitter
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This study examines the construction and uptake of what I refer to as “nuanced stances” in interactions on Twitter regarding points of ideological contention in the context of the Covid-related death of Herman Cain. Drawing ...
It Sounds the Way It's Spelled: Orthography Effect Mechanisms in Persons with Aphasia
(Georgetown University, 2022)
The goal of this dissertation was to find converging evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging analyses of the mechanisms of orthographic integration with general language processes. By examining orthography effects, covert ...
Neuro-symbolic Models for Constructing, Comparing, and Combining Syntactic and Semantic Representations
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Grounded in long-established theories of language, symbolic linguistic representation (SLR) formalisms should be a convenient and effective means for analyzing and supporting the rapid development of
neural network-based ...
Uncovering Implicit Social Hierarchies in Political Discourse: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of the 2019 United States Democratic Party Presidential Primary Debates
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This study takes a social constructivist approach in the examination of ideologies that position one person, or one group, above another in political discourse. I analyze social hierarchies in the eight 2019 Democratic ...
Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Multiracial Heritage Speakers and the Denial of Racial Authenticity
(Georgetown University, 2022)
This study examines the role raciolinguistic ideologies play in the racial exclusion and denial ofracial authenticity of one-white parent mixed-race individuals through the qualitative
sociolinguistic and discourse analysis ...