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An Overview Of Central Dizin Phonology And Morphology
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)
Dizin (Dizi) is an Omotic language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia with three main dialects. This thesis focuses on Central Dizin phonology and morphology, but includes some data from Eastern Dizin and Western Dizin.
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The Acoustic Correlates Of ATR Harmony In Seven- And Nine-vowel African Languages: A Phonetic Inquiry Into Phonological Structure
(Linguistics, 2008-09-17)
This study compares eleven Niger-Congo languages with [ATR] harmony and seeks to determine especially whether the acoustic properties of the "voice quality" differences associated with [ATR] in nine-vowel languages, such ...
The Textual Construction Of Femininity In Women's Fitness Magazines
(Linguistics, 2008-04-22)
Women in the first decade of the 21st century encounter competing ideologies of traditional femininity and empowered femininity. Language, in particular Discourse Analysis, provides a means for investigating what these ...
Phonological Processes In Contemporary Spoken Bulgarian
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)
This study investigates a number of phonological processes observed in the speech of 24 educated Bulgarian speakers. The speech of all subjects was recorded during 30 minute interviews conducted in 2004. Three speech styles ...
Repair Negotiation By English L2 Learners
(Linguistics, 2013-03-20)
It is widely accepted that L2 learners often face communication problems due to lack of competency in the target language and familiarity with its culture of origin. One way to resolve miscommunication problems is to seek ...
White Miao Consonant Contrasts
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1974-04-28)
Relative Clause Processing: Evidence from Russian
(2014)
Studies on relative clauses (RCs) in a number of languages have shown that object-extracted RCs (ORCs) are more difficult to process than subject-extracted RCs (SRCs). SRC-ORC processing asymmetry has been attributed to:
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An Examination Of The Tone System Of Fur And Its Function In Grammar
(Linguistics, 2008-09-17)
This research into the tonal system of Fur and its grammatical functions began with several basic assumptions. These assumptions were based on the excellent prior research by Jakobi (1989), and Kutsch Lojenga and Waag(2000). ...