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A Comparative Tone Analysis of Several Bantu D30 Languages (DR Congo)
(2018-05-23)This dissertation presents an analysis of the tonal systems of the Bantu D30 languages. There are 34 Bantu D languages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), few of which have developed orthographies (Lewis, Simons, ... -
Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of L2 Fluency: The Role of Prolongations
(2016-09-14)This dissertation examines the contribution of lengthened segments/syllables or prolongations to the utterance and perceived fluency of native and non-native speech via three related studies. First, utterance fluency was ... -
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 ... -
An Acoustic, Historical, And Developmental Analysis Of Sarikol Tajik Diphthongs
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)Sarikol Tajik has been reported to be an unusual language, containing up to twelve diphthongs and being the only language in the Gorno-Badakhshan family to not contain a short and long vowel distinction among monophthongs. ... -
The Acquisition Of Chinese Nominal Classifier Systems By L2 Adult Learners
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)The present study explores how L2 adult learners of Chinese acquire Chinese classifiers and provides pedagogical suggestions for more effective teaching of Chinese. 29 native speakers of Korean, 29 native speakers of English ... -
Adult ESOL Reading Comprehension And Text-to-speech Software
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)This study involved ten ESOL adults and examines the extent to which text-to-speech (TTS) software facilitates their reading comprehension. The five treatment participants read fifty, 300-word, non-fiction stories and ... -
American Sign Language Verb Categories In Constructed Action
(Linguistics, 2012-07-25)The American Sign Language construction commonly known as "role-shift" superficially resembles mimic forms, however unlike mime, role-shift is a type of depicting construction in ASL discourse (Roy 1989). The signer may ... -
APPLICATION OF A COGNITIVE MODEL OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE TO THE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED PROBLEMS IN TZELTAL (MAYAN) GRAMMAR
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-05)Underlying the dominant theory of language today is the assumption that language is innate to homo sapiens. Theoretical and analytic work at all levels of linguistic inquiry are predicated upon this assumption. The present ... -
Are We Speaking The Same Language? The Use Of The Mother Tongue By Native English Speaking Teachers In English As A Foreign Language Classrooms
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)The question of whether or not to use students' first language in second language acquisition is not a new one (Harbord, 1992; Duff and Polio, 1990). However, the way this question is addressed by the students themselves ... -
AN ARGUMENT FOR THE LUKAN AUTHORSHIP OF HEBREWS
(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 ... -
Articulations Of Identity Within High School Cliques: Language Choices In Boyat And Emo Filipino Youth Groups
(Linguistics, 2010-07-19)This dissertation adds to work exploring where language stands in the shaping of adolescent speakers' social identities, since identities emerge through discursive and social practices, and social selves are produced through ... -
Artificial Operators: Function and Use in English
(2022-08-12)This dissertation provides a descriptive account of the use of ‘artificial operators’ on Reddit. I adopt the term artificial operators to refer to written symbols (e.g., #, ™, ©, ®) with overlapping linguistic and ... -
ASPECTS OF KOREAN NARRATION
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1981-05)A dominant trend in linguistics has been sentence grammar, which deals with structures leading up to the sentence level. With more studies on semantics and pragmatics, however, there has been a growing concern for discourse ... -
ASPECTS OF THE KAM LANGUAGE, AS REVEALED IN ITS NARRATIVE DISCOURSE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-08)Discourse analysis has long been understudied in Kam. This research aims to initiate the exploration of this new field by examining various aspects of Kam narrative discourse and reveal its structural properties through a ... -
ATTITUDES OF NATIVE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PROFESSORS TOWARD UNIVERSITY ESL STUDENTS
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2000-08)This study focuses on native English-speaking business professors to explore issues of stereotyping and error gravity in terms of university ESL (English as a Second Language) students. Specifically, this dissertation has ... -
Automatic processing of tonal information during visual word recognition in L2 Chinese learners
(2020-08-10)This dissertation investigates the automatic tonal processing in a second language (L2) and a first language (L1) during visual word recognition. Four experiments were conducted to examine -- (i) whether tonal information ... -
Azerbaijani-Russian Code-switching And Code-mixing: Form, Function, And Identity
(Linguistics, 2010-03-03)From incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1828, through the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 governmental language policies and other socio/political forces influenced the Turkic population of the Republic of Azerbaijan ... -
BI-CONSONANTAL REDUPLICATION IN AMHARIC AND ETHIO-SEMITIC
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-05)This dissertation is a study of the consonant reduplication process in Amharic, a process which is herein named “Bi-Consonantal Reduplication.” In this process, the last two consonants of a root are repeated, a process ... -
THE CODE MODEL OF COMMUNICATION: A POWERFUL METAPHOR IN LINGUISTIC METATHEORY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-12)The concept of communication is a fundamental notion in the metatheory of linguistics. This study explores the historical development and influence of a particular model of communication, labeled the ‘code model’. This ... -
CODE-SWITCHING IN THE SPEECH OF SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUALS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)The purpose of this study is the investigation of (a) the motivations for code-switching; and (b) the process by which bilinguals perceive code-switching as meaningful. The empirical basis for the study is data gathered ...