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CONTINUITY AND GIVEN-NEW STATUS OF DISCOURSE REFERENTS IN ADZERA ORAL NARRATIVE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-12)
This thesis analyzes the encoding of discourse referents in oral narratives in Adzera, an SVO Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. First, it classifies overt referents on a given-new continuum according to Prince's ...
THE ERTIREAN ENGLISH CURRICULUM: GRADES 2-6 ASSESSING ACADEMIC READINESS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2005-05)
This study is an examination of the 2002 Eritrean English curriculum from Grades 2–6. In the Eritrean educational system, the nine languages of Eritrea are the languages of education until Grade 6, when students are expected ...
PROTO-QUICHEAN KINSHIP
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)
The Quichean languages are comprised of a family of related languages of the Mayan stock, spoken principally in the highlands of Guatemala in Central America. Some of the kinship terminologies currently in use by the ...
COMPUTER ASSISTED DIALECT ADAPTATION: THE TUCANOAN EXPERIMENT
(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 ...
Inferring New Vocabulary Using Online Texts
(Routledge, 2005)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Through small-scale sampling of relevant specialized texts to craft hands-on inferential vocabulary tasks, both students and teachers can benefit from corpus ...
Truth Is, Sentence-Initial Shell Nouns Are Showing Up Bare
(Palacký University, 2014)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In one subtype of English shell noun construction, the noun serves as the subject in a pre-clausal unit, e.g., “The thing is.” Shell noun NPs have mainly been ...
Deliberations before running another Wikipedia editing assignment
(2022-09-23)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In assessing a popular Open Educational Resource that instructs and is shaped by students, I weigh the costs for both instructors and students in using classroom ...
NATIVE LANGUAGE AND NON-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCES ON THE PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH VOWELS BY SPEAKERS OF KOREAN: AN ACOUSTIC STUDY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-08)
This study investigates the production of Korean and English front vowels by ninety-one Koreans, based on their arrival age to the U.S., length of residence in the U.S. and degree of motivation. Subjects' Korean and English ...
CONSONANT CLUSTER SIMPLIFICATION IN KOREAN CODAS: LANGUAGE-INTERNAL AND LANGUAGE-EXTERNAL CONSTRAINTS INTERFACE WITH REFERENCE TO OPTIMALITY THEORY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2005-05)
In Korean, when a morpheme contains a coda cluster in its underlying form (such as /salm/‘life,’ /hulk/‘soil’), we observe two outcomes in its surface representation. In cases when the morpheme followed by either another ...
SECONDARY PALATALIZATION IN ISTHMUS MIXE: A PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-12)
This dissertation is a study of the process of palatalization in Isthmus Mixe, in which every consonant in the inventory has a palatalized counterpart. This type of palatalization occurring as a secondary [i]-like articulation, ...