Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Linguistics by Title
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THE EFFECT OF PHONETICS INSTRUCTION ON ADULT LEARNERS' PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF L2 SOUNDS
(Georgetown University, 2012)Traditional pronunciation instruction and instruction in second language (L2) phonetics have been shown to improve learners' L2 accent in some, though certainly not all, cases. Learners in intermediate and advanced Spanish ... -
Examining Creativity as an Individual Difference in Second Language Production
(Georgetown University, 2019)As our understanding of individual differences in second language acquisition continues to develop and expand, cognitive creativity is emerging as a promising area of research (Dörnyei & Ryan, 2015). Previous studies have ... -
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 ... -
Experiments on Approaches to Named Entity Recognition in IsiZulu
(Georgetown University, 2021)Named Entity Recognition (NER) has always been one significant part of Natural Language Processing technologies. This thesis investigates a range of approaches to address the NER task in isiZulu, a morphologically complex ... -
Exploring the Links between Second Language Learners’ Proneness to Shame and Proneness to Guilt and their Language Learning Motivation and Achievement
(Georgetown University, 2019)Emotion research in second language acquisition (SLA) research is undergoing rapid changes with an increasing number of studies exploring its role in second language (L2) learning (Prior, 2019). In line with this rising ... -
Expressing Gender and Queer Identity with Intonation: Variation Amongst Masculine, Neutral, and Feminine Aligning AFAB Queer Speakers in DC
(Georgetown University, 2018)Many sociolinguistic studies have examined how language use can express gender and sexuality in talk. (Lakoff 1973; Tannen 1994; Murray 1999; Bucholtz, Liang & Sutton 1999; Eckert & Rickford 2002; Hellinger & Bußmann 2001; ... -
Extending the language of space into abstract contexts in child Hungarian
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Extracting and modeling typical durations of events and habits from Twitter
(Georgetown University, 2012)This thesis presents recent work on a new method to automatically extract fine-grained duration information for common verbs using a large corpus of Twitter tweets. I present the results of distinguishing between habitual ... -
Face, Knowledge and Floor: Analyzing Like Usage through a Combined Variationist, Discourse Analytic and Pragmatic Approach
(Georgetown University, 2012)This thesis examines the distribution and functions of non-standard like in naturally occurring conversations among young Americans. Many of the past quantitative studies on like have focused exclusively on its correlations ... -
Factors Affecting Proficiency Among Gujarati Heritage Language Learners on Three Continents
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation examines the causes behind the differences in proficiency in the North Indian language Gujarati among heritage learners of Gujarati in three diaspora locations. In particular, I focus on whether there is ... -
Focus and the semantics of desire predicates and directive verbs
(Georgetown University, 2016)In this dissertation, we investigate the semantics of attitude predicates in terms of how they interact with focus. We look at two kinds of focus data: minimal pairs where the focus structure of the complement varies ('Sofia ... -
Focusing in Hindi Syntax
(Georgetown University, 2014)In this paper, I propose that focused elements in Hindi must scramble to the specifier of a Focus Phrase projected immediately above the vP, which is the default position for focus (Kidwai 1999). A focus phrase in the ... -
FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF EMOJIS IN WHATSAPP INTERACTION AMONG OMANIS
(Georgetown University, 2015)This study examines the forms and functions of emojis as used by Omani men and women friends and relatives in messages exchanged on the Instant Messaging application called WhatsApp. Emojis, or “picture characters,” are a ... -
FRAMING ON TWITTER: HOW SAUDI ARABIANS INTERTEXTUALLY FRAME THE WOMEN2DRIVE CAMPAIGN
(Georgetown University, 2015)This study uses Twitter posts as a new domain to explore the intersection of framing and intertextuality in computer-mediated communication. My dataset consists of Twitter posts by Saudi women activists in support of women's ... -
Gesture in Multiparty Interaction: A Study of Embodied Discourse in Spoken English and American Sign Language
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation is an examination of gesture in two game nights: one in spoken English between four hearing friends and another in American Sign Language between four Deaf friends. Analyses of gesture have shown there ... -
Godless Arabic: How Lack of Belief Affects the Inherently Religious Arabic Language
(Georgetown University, 2018)The growing field of religiolinguistics (Hary & Wein, 2013) is concerned with the relationships between religion and language use, but no studies have yet focused on the use of Arabic by atheists, agnostics, or other ... -
Heritage Language Education: Administrative and teachers perceptions of community- based and school-based classrooms across the United States
(Georgetown University, 2022)Thus far, K-12 and higher education heritage language (HL) programs have been treated as an adjunct to traditional world language classrooms which have been constructed for second language learners (Carreira & Chik, 2018). ... -
A Hybrid Approach to Inferring a Consistent Temporal Relation Set in Natural Language Text
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation investigates the temporal relation identification -
I Don't Know What It Is, but I Know It When I Hear It: Speaking Proficiency and the ACTFL OPI
(Georgetown University, 2015)The Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) that is used by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) to assess speaking proficiency has become quite popular since its debut in the 1980s. As the OPI has ...
