Linguistics ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Modern Spoken Coptic and Community Negotiation of Linguistic Authenticity, Jeremy Toomey
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
DEVELOPING THINKING IN L2 SPEAKING: EVIDENCE FROM SPATIAL-TEMPORAL SYSTEM IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH LEARNERS, Pei-ni Causarano
LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION AFGHAN-AMERICANS AND IRANIAN-AMERICANS TOWARD DARI AND PERSIAN, Afsoon Hansia
TWO DIFFERENT SPEECH COMMUNITIES IN PUERTO RICO: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ABOUT SOCIAL CLASS AND CHILDREN LEARNING ENGLISH IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS OF THE ISLAND, Jannette Hermina
Analyzing Navajo Discourse: Investigating Form and Function of Intonational Units in Referential Discourse, Michele Kiser
A THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF EXPERIENCES OF NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS WITH THE INTERNET-BASED TEST OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, Annaliese Mayette
The Development of Czech Aspectual Prefixes Through Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes, Pavlina Peskova
"Hey, y'guys!": A diachronic usage-based approach to changes in American English address, Ben Sienicki
Kiowa-Tanoan: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study, Logan Sutton
THE ROLE OF SES AND ASL FOR LITERACY SUCCESS IN ASL-ENGLISH BILINGUALS, Paul Twitchell
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Language Ideologies and Orthographies: Developing a Writing System for Than Ówîngeh, Evan Ashworth
Quantitative determinants of prefabs: A corpus-based, experimental study of multiword units in the lexicon, Clayton Beckner
The evolution of constructions: The case of be about to, Joshua Mee
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Coarticulation in American Sign Language Fingerspelling, Caitlin S. Channer
"Ye ken fine wha I mean": Variation between you know and ye ken in Scottish varieties of English, Briony Jones
THE ROLE OF PHONOLOGY AND SEMANTICS IN THE LEXICAL PROCESSING OF ASL CORE LEXICAL ITEMS AND CLASSIFIER CONSTRUCTIONS, Jeannine Kammann
SUBJECT EXPRESSION IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: CONSTRUCTION AND FREQUENCY EFFECTS, Agripino Silveira
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
A Temporal Fuzzy-ART Neural Network Architecture as a Model of Phoneme Perception, Rex Devon Hjelm
The Role of Formulaic Language in the Creation of Grammar, Natalya Stukova
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Syllables and Concepts in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition, Paul A. De Palma
Figuration & Frequency: A Usage-Based Approach to Metaphor, Daniel Sanford
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Australian English Rising Intonation: Frequency and Function During Talk-in-Interaction, Susan Buescher
The Spread of Change in French Negation, Angus Grieve-Smith
Typology of Signed Languages: Differentiation through Kinship Terminology, Erin Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
The Phonetics of Fingerspelling: Kinematic, Temporal, and Dynamic Aspects of Fingerspelling Production, Sherman Elmo Wilcox
Theses/Dissertations from 1937
Syntax of Nouns in the Annales Ricardi Secundi, Mary Gardner
