Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Linguistics by Title
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Knitting As Politics: How One Traditionally Non-Political Community Engages With Political Discourse
(Georgetown University, 2020)This discursive linguistic study examines how indie yarn dyers in a knitting community on Instagram position themselves in relation to a political ban. In June of 2019, a popular knitting pattern website, Ravelry, released ... -
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 ... -
Language alternation practices in Arabic-English online language learning exchanges: How translanguaging enriches interaction and creates involvement
(Georgetown University, 2021)The meanings and uses of the terms codeswitching and translanguaging in relation to multilingual contexts have become increasingly hazy and contentious. This study empirically addresses this tension by examining video-based ... -
Language and cognition in monolinguals and bilinguals: a study of spontaneous and caused motion events in Korean and English
(Georgetown University, 2015)In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the relationship between second language (L2) learning and linguistic relativity. As a result, research has been prolific in investigating (a) whether bilinguals ... -
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), ... -
Language Policy, Prestige, and Stigma: A Case Study of Moroccan Amazigh Language Varieties
(Georgetown University, 2020)Language is a major part of identity in any context, but especially in situations of disenfranchisement and marginalization, in which heritage languages are often subject to repression and resultant shift and loss. One ... -
Language socialization in the internationally adoptive family : identities, second languages, and learning
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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 ... -
Language, Ethnicity and Identity in a New Jersey Korean-American Community
(Georgetown University, 2015)This dissertation investigates the variable patterning of two phonological features in the speech of 24 Korean Americans in the most densely populated Korean American community in the US, Bergen County, in the northeast ... -
Learning by Simulating: Second language Pragmatic Development in a Technology-mediated Task-based Simulation with Feedback
(Georgetown University, 2022)While there have been promising findings on the effectiveness of technology-mediated tasks involving feedback in facilitating various aspects of second language (L2) development (Ziegler & Mackey, 2017), including pragmatics ... -
Lights, camera, accent : examining dialect performance in recent children's animated films
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Linguistic Context and the Social Meaning of Voice Quality Variation
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation investigates the linguistic and social constraints on the occurrence of creaky voice quality (creak) in Beijing Mandarin (BM), as well as the effect of linguistic and prosodic context on creak's social ... -
Linguistic Hide-n-Seek: Detecting Disguise Through Deception Detection, Author Profiling, and Authorship Attribution
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Linguistic Interpretability and Composition of Abstract Meaning Representations
(Georgetown University, 2021)Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks require some implicit representation of meaning. Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR; Banarescu et al., 2013) aims to be a scalable way ... -
Local International School Students: Identity and Language Learning Investments
(Georgetown University, 2021)International schools often use English as the medium of instruction and include large student populations of expatriate children with parents in globally mobile professions, who decided that the local education would not ... -
Making zines, making selves : identity construction in DIY autobiography
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Measuring Heritage Language Learners’ Proficiency for Research Purposes: An Argument-based Validity Study of the Korean C-test
(Georgetown University, 2018)Heritage language learners (HLLs) have increasingly become a focus of interest in applied linguistics research (Kagan & Dillon, 2012), but the lack of consistent conceptualization of HL proficiency has hindered the systematic ... -
Metathesis Is Real, And It Is A Regular Relation
(Georgetown University, 2016)Regular relations are mathematical models that are widely used in computational linguistics to generate, recognize, and learn various features of natural languages. While certain natural language phenomena – such as syntactic ... -
Mining Linguistic Tone Patterns Using Fundamental Frequency Time-Series Data
(Georgetown University, 2017)With the rapid advancement in computing powers, recent years have seen the availability of large scale corpora of speech audio data, and within it, fundamental frequency (f0) time-series data of speech prosody. However, ... -
Modals in the scope of attitudes: a corpus study of attitude-modal combinations in Mandarin
(Georgetown University, 2015)This dissertation explores how attitude verbs constrain the interpretation of modal expressions in their complements, with the focus on configurations involving embedded concord modals (E-CM’s, e.g. John suspects the culprit ...
