Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Linguistics by Title
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An Articulatory, Acoustic, and Auditory Study of Burmese Tone
(Georgetown University, 2011)This dissertation investigates the complex tonal contrast in the modern Burmese language. The four Burmese tones are reported to make multi-way distinctions in pitch, phonation, duration, intensity, vowel quality, and ... -
AUTOMATIC DISAMBIGUATION OF CHINESE MODAL EXPRESSIONS - A SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING EXPERIMENT
(Georgetown University, 2013)This thesis reports an annotation on Chinese modal expressions in Chinese Treebank (CHTB) 4.0, with eleven attributes that may affect the reading of modal expressions. The annotated data provide distributional information ... -
Automatic extraction of lemma-based bilingual dictionaries for morphologically rich languages
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Automatic presentation of sense-specific lexical information in an intelligent learning system
(Georgetown University, 2012)Learning vocabulary and understanding texts present difficulty for language learners due to, among other things, the high degree of lexical ambiguity. By developing an intelligent tutoring system, this dissertation examines ... -
The Basque Auxiliary Verb: Morphosyntactic Analysis and Implications for Second Language Acquisition
(Georgetown University, 2015)This dissertation presents a morphosyntactic analysis of the Basque auxiliary verb (AUX) and Case system. Based on this analysis, predictions for the trajectory of acquisition of AUX and Case marking by Spanish-speaking ... -
A Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigation of Different Aptitudes for L2 Grammar in Learners Equated for Proficiency Level
(Georgetown University, 2008)The declarative/ procedural (DP) model (Ullman, 2004), a neurocognitive model, posits that for late-learned second languages (L2s), both lexicon and grammar initially depend on declarative memory. With increased exposure, ... -
Bilingual Gestures: The "Manual" Way of Informing the Notion of 'Balanced Bilinguals'
(Georgetown University, 2013)Defining what makes a person bilingual is notoriously difficult and dependent on various factors like fluency, age of acquisition, and situational context, among others. The notion of a `balanced bilingual' is even more ... -
Bilingualism, feedback, cognitive capacity, and learning strategies in L3 development
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Breizh atao? : The Macrosociolinguistics of Word Choice, Language Ideology and Regional Identity in Contemporary Brittany
(Georgetown University, 2013)"Breizh atao" means "Brittany forever" in Breton and is often used by activists to reference the longevity of the region and its culture. Brittany's history is not dissimilar to that of other regions whose linguistic ... -
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 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 ...
