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    • COMPUTER ASSISTED DIALECT ADAPTATION: THE TUCANOAN EXPERIMENT 

      Reed, Robert Bruce (University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)
      This dissertation provides the theoretical basis for a computer program that adapts textual material from one language of the Tucanoan family to another. Tucanoan languages are spoken by small groups living in southeastern ...

    • ON THE INTERACTION OF LINGUISTIC TEXTS AND HUMAN KNOWLEDGE 

      Robichaux, Kerry Stewart (University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)
      This study examines some aspects of the interaction of linguistic texts and human knowledge. The quest for greater context in linguistics suggests the focus of this study, viz., the effect of a text on the knowledge of its ...

    • SOME MAJOR ASPECTS OF THE FOCUS SYSTEM IN ISNAG 

      Barlaan, Rodolfo Rosario (University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-08)
      This study attempts to specify how the syntactic form signals the semantic and pragmatic aspects of the focus system in the Isnag language. It specifies the correlation between the semantics and grammar of focus by proposing ...

    • THE STRUCTURE OF THAI NARRATIVE DISCOURSE 

      Burusphat, Somsonge (University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-08)
      This study presents the interrelated concerns of Thai narrative discourse which include macrostructure, texture, constituent structure, and cultural information. The macrostructure is the global meaning of a discourse which ...

    • LISTENING COMPREHENSION: ADULT SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS 

      Williams, Mary Karen (University of Texas at Arlington, 1987-12)
      The goal of this work is to discover information that will improve the selection and design of listening comprehension materials for adult second language learners. Chapter 1 treats adult versus child language learning and ...

    • UNRAVELLING MURDER AND MAYHEM: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF A WIRU DIVINATION ACCOUNT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 

      Fullingim, John Michael (University of Texas at Arlington, 1987-12)
      The endeavor to understand another emic view of reality offers a conceptual challenge to any observer-analyst. This paper presents the author's reflections upon his encounter with another culture and language and his ...

    • AN ARGUMENT FOR THE LUKAN AUTHORSHIP OF HEBREWS 

      Allen, David Lewis (University of Texas at Arlington, 1987-12)
      The question of the authorship of the New Testament epistle to the Hebrews has provided scholars with fertile ground for speculation from the earliest days of Church history until the present time. The purpose of this ...

    • A STUDY OF ICONICITY IN KOREAN: WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO LONG AND SHORT FORMS 

      Kim, Kyu-Cheol (University of Texas at Arlington, 1989-12)
      This study of iconicity if Korean has examined the iconic relationship (non-arbitrariness) between form and meaning in phonology, morphology, and syntax. There are many pairs of linguistic expressions that carry roughly ...

    • Activity Implicatures and Possessor Implicatures: What Are Locations When There Is No Article?. 

      Stvan, Laurel Smith (Chicago Linguistic SocietyLinguistics Department, 1993)

    • Predicting near-native pronunciation in Spanish as a foreign language 

      Elliott, A. Raymond (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The objective of the present study is to examine the acquisition of pronunciation by 66 undergraduate students enrolled in three sections of an intermediate Spanish ...

    • Finding the "two" in diglossia 

      Paolillo, John C. (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Sociolinguists generally agree that a diglossic situation is one in which a single speech community employs two or more varieties of language, a H(igh) variety and ...

    • The variable elision of unstressed vowels in European Portuguese: a case study 

      Silva, David J. (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: European varieties of Portuguese exhibit a process whereby unstressed vowels, particularly schwa, optionally undergo elision: an item such as idade ‘idea’ can be ...

    • Lexical borrowing, creolization and basic vocabulary 

      Huttar, George L. (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This paper is concerned with two sets of questions, one from semantics and cognitive linguistics, one from diachronic linguistics and in particular creole studies. ...

    • The variable (th) in Dallas African American Vernacular English 

      Vinton, Virginia C. (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: It is well-known that African American Vernacular English (hereafter AAVE) displays regional variation. In the case of the (th) variable, Wolfram (1969) found that ...

    • Prosody Drives the Syntax: O'odham Rhythm 

      Fitzgerald, Colleen M. (Berkeley Linguistics SocietyLinguistic Society of AmericaDepartment of Linguistics & TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed**

    • Diphthongization and underspecification in Kɔnni 

      Cahill, Mike (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The problems of analyzing vowels of Gur languages are well-known to those who work among them. The bulk of the difficulty in Kɔnni comes in the analysis of the mid ...

    • Discourse-based evidence for an ergative analysis of Cebuano 

      Walters, Dennis (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The case-marking systems of Philippine languages have been difficult to classify as either nominative-accusative (NOM-ACC) or ergative-absolutive (ERG-ABS). The ...

    • Subjectless sentences in English 

      Reiman, Patricia Willess (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: One of the goals of modern linguistics is to develop a model of Universal Grammar which captures natural language features that are universal, while also accounting ...

    • Phonetic emphasis in Tamil 

      Vinton, James E. (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The present paper is based on a study conducted following Balasubramanian’s (1981) method: a native speaker was asked to emphasize a given item in a sentence and ...

    • Anaphora, pragmatics and style in German 

      DeLisle, Helga H. (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: German uses two sets of anaphoric pronouns, the personal pronoun set (PP) er, sie, es and the demonstrative pronoun set (DP) der, die, das. The latter set has been ...