Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Linguistics by Title
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Catechism, Raincoats, and Refrigerators: Story Rounds and the Discursive Construction of Personal and Shared Identities in One Extended Family
(Georgetown University, 2022)In this study, I employ discourse analytic and interactional sociolinguistic theories and methods to analyze a round of stories shared amongst a group of my extended family members following a family meal during the ... -
Child Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation
(Georgetown University, 2020)This dissertation explores the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation by 5;0 to 6;0 year old children in a public bilingual immersion elementary school setting. It shows how children at this age engage in spontaneous ... -
Children's Sociostylistic Creaky Voice
(Georgetown University, 2021)Sociolinguistic variation in children is well-documented (e.g., Fischer, 1958; Roberts, 1997; Nardy et al., 2014). However, this work has largely centered on segmental variables alone. Creaky voice, a nonsegmental variable, ... -
Clause Structure and Null Subjects: Referential Dependencies in Korean
(Georgetown University, 2011)This dissertation investigates control structures with infinitival and jussive complements in Korean, an empirical domain that has so far received little attention. It focuses on three theoretical issues: the licensing ... -
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, ... -
Community-based Learning in University Spanish Education: An Exploration of Student and Community Partner Outcomes
(Georgetown University, 2020)This dissertation explores community-based learning (CBL) in university Spanish education. Although Spanish education continues to construct Spanish as a foreign language (Leeman, 2014), recent trends such as changing ... -
Comparing Native and Non-native Raters of US Federal Government Speaking Tests
(Georgetown University, 2013)Previous Language Testing research has largely reported that although many raters' characteristics affect their evaluations of language assessments (Reed & Cohen, 2001), being a native speaker or non-native speaker rater ... -
Constraints on Articulatory Variability: Audiovisual Perception of Lip Rounding
(Georgetown University, 2019)What are the factors that shape linguistic sound systems? Perceptibility of the acoustic signal has long been argued to play a role in phonological organization. Some theories of historical change (Ohala 1981, 1993; Blevins ... -
Constructed Speech and Thought as Linguistic Indicators of Veracity and Deception in Online Hotel Reviews
(Georgetown University, 2020)More than 30 empirical studies have examined language content for cues to deception predicted by the Reality Monitoring framework (Johnson & Raye, 1981), an approach theorizing that real memories are formed through perceptual ... -
Constructing a “Healthy Citizen”: A Comparative Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Swiss and US Public Health Guidance on Government Websites
(Georgetown University, 2023)This paper employs a comparative multimodal discourse analysis to investigate how governments assert their authority on public health matters through their official government webpages. The study compares the webpages of ... -
Constructing dialogue, constructing identites : mixed heritage identity construction in half and half
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The Construction of an Elite Middle-Class: Foodie Discourse in Bon Appétit Magazine
(Georgetown University, 2015)As Johnston and Baumann (2010) note, "Most everyday food choices both reflect and reproduce societal power divisions of economic and cultural capital" (128); in this sense, food practices can be seen as markers of social ... -
Corpus-Based Study of the Grammaticalization and Semantic Networks of Chinese Guo and Le
(Georgetown University, 2018)Due to their polysemous nature and inter-lexical polysemy (Evans, 2015), Chinese guo (過/过) and le (了) have proven to be two of the most closely related and most puzzling linguistic items for linguists to describe and L2 ... -
A Corpus-based Study of Variation and Change in Adverb Placement across World Englishes
(Georgetown University, 2016)Recent investigations have shown an effect of geography on syntactic variation among dialects in a handful of languages. As dialect corpora are becoming increasingly available, developments in corpus-based dialectology ... -
Corrective feedback, individual variation in cognitive capacities, and L2 development: Recasts vs. metalinguistic feedback
(Georgetown University, 2011)This dissertation explores how the type of structure is related to the effectiveness of different forms of corrective feedback provided during interaction and whether/how individual differences in working memory (WM) and ... -
Cross-Paragraph Discourse Structure in Rhetorical Structure Theory Parsing and Treebanking for Chinese and English
(Georgetown University, 2023)Hierarchical discourse structures benefit Natural Language Understanding tasks, such as text summarization and sentiment analysis. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is particularly significant at the macro levels, such as ... -
Cue-based Features: Modeling Change and Variation in the Voicing Contrasts of Minnesotan English, Afrikaans, and Dutch
(Georgetown University, 2021)Phonological voicing in obstruents is signaled by numerous acoustic cues, both spectral and temporal. Voicing contrasts have been featurally described as [±voice], [±spread glottis], fortis versus lenis, or a combination ... -
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 ... -
Developing Question Constructions in Japanese as a First Language: The Roles of Type of Referent and Parental Input
(Georgetown University, 2017)The present dissertation extracted 17,291 questions from Aki, Ryo, and Tai and their mother’s spontaneously produced speech data available in the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000; Oshima-Takane & MacWhinney, 1998). The ... -
Development of conscious knowledge during early incidental learning of L2 syntax
(Georgetown University, 2013)Second language acquisition (SLA) researchers have a long-standing interest in the effectiveness of providing learners with conscious knowledge (CK) through explicit instruction (e.g., Sanz & Morgan-Short, 2004); however, ...
