Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Linguistics by Title
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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 ... -
More on the Validity and Reliability of C-test Scores: A Meta-Analysis of C-test Studies
(Georgetown University, 2019)Hundreds of C-test studies have been published since Klein-Braley’s (1981) dissertation work in Duisburg, Germany (Grotjahn, 2016). C-tests are popular because many claim they are easy to develop, administer, and score. ... -
Morphosyntactic Echoes: Language Contact Phenomena in Navajo Child English
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation explores the morphosyntactic properties of the language produced by a group of Navajo students participating in a Navajo language and culture program. The dissertation finds that the students employ a ... -
Multilingual Identity Development and Negotiation Amongst Heritage Language Learners: A Study of East European-American Schoolchildren in the United States
(Georgetown University, 2013)Previous research in the field of heritage language (HL) acquisition has focused on the connection between frequency of language use and HL speakers' connection to and maintenance of their HL. This dissertation introduces ... -
Multimodal Semiotics of Mathematics Teaching and Learning
(Georgetown University, 2015)The practice of mathematics education is fundamentally multimodal. It incorporates not only talk and embodied action, but also technical notation and diagrams, brought into discourse through verbal and gestural reference. ... -
Negotiating Power through Tag Questions in Crisis Negotiations
(Georgetown University, 2016)Crisis negotiation is a unique form of law enforcement–civilian interaction, as the crime is ongoing at the time of the exchange. Consequently, crisis negotiators have the opportunity to positively influence the outcome ... -
The Neurocognition of Adult Second Language Learning: An fMRI Study
(Georgetown University, 2014)Learners achieved very high proficiency in vocabulary and reasonably high proficiency in grammar, though morphosyntactic agreement was difficult to master. FMRI activation was found in areas associated with first language ... -
Non-native argumentative writing by Vietnamese learners of English : a contrastive study
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THE OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION: METHOD, TARGET COMPLEXITY, AND TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE
(Georgetown University, 2012)This dissertation investigates optimal conditions for form-focused instruction (FFI) by considering effects of internal (i.e., timing and types of FFI) and external (i.e., complexity and familiarity) variables of FFI when ... -
Orienting to Topic in Clinical Discourse Elicitation of Everyday Conversation
(Georgetown University, 2013)Talking topically, as it is understood intuitively and evoked metadiscursively, requires constructing an intersubjective orientation to talk that must be continually renewed. Analysis of interactants' ability to orient to ... -
Out of the Country, Out of the Closet: Positioning in Gay Immigrants' Coming-Out Stories
(Georgetown University, 2017)Queer coming out is widely discussed and theorized in the West. While the research on coming out has explored many of its aspects ranging from parental reactions (Denes & Afifi, 2014; Fields, 2001) to online identity ... -
Parallel Architecture, Parallel Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Nominal and Verbal Domains
(Georgetown University, 2017)This dissertation explores parallels between Complementizer Phrase (CP) and Determiner Phrase (DP) semantics, syntax, and morphology–including similarities in case-assignment, subject-verb and possessor-possessum agreement, ... -
Phonetic variation in Washington DC: Race, neighborhood, and gender
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation explores the speech of African American and European American residents in the District of Columbia, approaching from both variationist and discourse-analytic perspectives. The study investigates the ... -
Phonetics and Phonology of 'Voiced-Aspirated' Stops: Evidence from Production, Perception, Alternation and Learnability
(Georgetown University, 2019)There has been a long-standing debate regarding the featural representation of 'voiced-aspirated’ stops. Traditional models, including Laryngeal Realism (Honeybone, 2005; Iverson & Salmons, 1995; Beckman et al., 2013), assume that -
Phonological Variation at the Intersection of Ethnoracial Identity, Place, and Style in Washington, D.C.
(Georgetown University, 2013)This dissertation examines phonological variation in Washington, DC, which has remained under-explored in urban sociolinguistics. The paucity of research on language in DC relates to its dialectal marginality, its unique ...
