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Second Language Acquisition of Variable Use of the Nominative and Accusative Case Morphemes in Korean: A Corpus Study

Chae, Go-Eun (Georgetown University, 2018)

The goal of this dissertation is to examinethe the second language (L2) acquisition of variable use of nominative/accusative case morphemes by English- or Japanese-speaking adult learners of Korean.

Second Language Motivation: Its Relationship to Noticing, Affect, and Production in Task-Based Interaction

Al Khalil, Maymona Khalil (Georgetown University, 2011)

Second language (L2) motivation has been characterized as a complex construct comprised of cognitive, affective, and behavioral components (Gardner, 1985, 2001, 2006). This research explored whether components of L2 ...

SECOND LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF DERIVATIONAL AND INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN ENGLISH

Song, Yoonsang (Georgetown University, 2015)

This dissertation investigates how later second language (L2) learners process derivational and inflectional morphology to explore whether later L2 learners can develop lexical or syntactic representations qualitatively ...

Second Language Writing Complexity in Academic Legal Discourse: Development and Assessment under a Curricular Lens

Xu, Yiran (Georgetown University, 2020)

In the past three decades, the construct of second language (L2) writing complexity has been theorized and refined in both second language acquisition (SLA) (Crossley, 2020; Housen, De Clercq, Kuiken, & Vedder, 2019; Lu, ...

Sentence First, Arguments After: Mechanisms of Morphosyntax Acquisition

Getz, Heidi Rose (Georgetown University, 2018)

Natural languages contain complex grammatical patterns. For example, in German, finite verbs occur second in main clauses while non-finite verbs occur last, as in dein Brüder möchte in den Zoo gehen (“Your brother wants ...

She, he and they trending on Twitter: Polyvocal pronouns and more-public messages

Merkhofer, Elizabeth Monica (Georgetown University, 2013)

This paper uses ethnographic and quantitative methods to examine the use of standard, third-person personal pronouns and 'singular they' for a specific referent in a Twitter corpus. The corpus, collected from the Twitter ...

Signaling of Discourse Relations: Anchoring Discourse Signals across Genres

Liu, Yang (Georgetown University, 2019)

Discourse Relations, also known as coherence or rhetorical relations, characterize the semantic or pragmatic relationships between clauses or sentences in discourse. Such relations are established in order to facilitate ...

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discursive construction of Washington, DC Chinatown

Situating linguistic landscape in time and space : a multidimensional study of the discursive construction of Washington, DC Chinatown

Lou, Jia. (Georgetown University, 2009)

A Sociolinguistic Study of Postvocalic /s/ Variation in a Rio de Janeiro Favela: Race/Color, Place and Stance

Brito, Edvan Pereira (Georgetown University, 2016)

This dissertation research investigates the relationship between language and identity in the neighborhood of City of God (Cidade de Deus) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. More specifically, it employs a mixed-methods approach ...

Sociolinguistic variation in Smith Island English : existential it

Setliff, Rebecca. (Georgetown University, 1988)

Sociophonetic Variation at the Intersection of Gender, Region, and Style in Japanese Female Speech

Kajino, Sakiko (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, ...

Sounding Southern : phonetic features and dialect perceptions

Allbritten, Rachael Meghan. (Georgetown University, 2011)

Stancetaking as identity work: The case of mixed American/Israeli couples

Damari, Rebecca Rubin (Georgetown University, 2012)

This dissertation identifies and contributes to filling several gaps in research on stance, with an eye toward the role of stancetaking as a means of identity construction. The case in focus is one at a cultural border, ...

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Statistical Learning of Predictive Dependencies in the Tense-Aspect System of a Miniature Language by English and Thai First Language Adults

Suethanapornkul, Sakol (Georgetown University, 2020)

The effects of previously learned language(s) on learning, knowledge, and use of a new language have been well documented (Jarvis & Pavlenko, 2008). It is also well known that adults extract statistical patterns of artificial ...