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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Stable complexity: verbal inflection in prominent and frequent environments, Lukas Denk
CONCEPTUAL MEANING IN PHONOLOGY: MULTIMODAL ICONIC EXPRESSIONS IN DISCOURSE FOCUS, David Páez Acevedo
LUCKY CHILE in the Land of Enchantment: Mapping Perception of Signed Language Varieties in New Mexico, David Player
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Social verbs: a force-dynamic analysis, Pavlina Kalm
Seeing is Believing: The Role of the Visual Stimulus in Cognitive Knowledge of Sound Structure, John M. Sances
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Spanish-Origin Verbal and Grammatical Borrowing in Paraguayan Guaraní, Josefina Bittar Prieto
Spanish /s/ Reduction in Cíbola County, New Mexico, Brandon Martinez
Language Co-Activation in Novice and Intermediate L2 Learners, Nicholas Sulier
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Exploring Language Endangerment and Language Change in Tohono O'odham, Keiko F. Beers
Wordhood issues: Typology and grammaticalization, Tim Zingler
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Saudi Arabian Women in Zoe Ferraris' Finding Nouf, Sharifa Bahri
Using Electrophysiology to Investigate Changes in Brain Activation in Individuals with Chronic Stroke, Sarah G. Dalton
He Spoke, I Spoke: A Usage-Based Examination of Homophony in the Navajo Verb Complex, Michael Peter Drinkwater
A Cross-linguistic Typology of ‘Take’ Serial Verb Constructions, Taegyeong Lee
The Interaction of Domain-initial Effects with Lexical Stress: Acoustic Data from English, Spanish, and Portuguese, Ricardo F. Napoleão de Souza
Medieval Narratives as Meta-constructions Used in Creating Socio-cultural Identity, Laurie A. Price
THE EXPRESSION OF MODALITY IN IRANIAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ZEI), Sara Siyavoshi
The Palikur Language (Arawak, Amazonian): Sociolinguistics, Grammar Sketch, and the Morphosyntax and Semantics of Spatial Terms, Simoni M. Valadares
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Path To Alignment, Gregory Richard Arnold
CYCLIC GESTURES AND MULTIMODAL SYMBOLIC ASSEMBLIES: AN ARGUMENT FOR SYMBOLIC COMPLEXITY IN GESTURE, Laura Hirrel
FRESA STYLE IN MEXICO: SOCIOLINGUISTIC STEREOTYPES AND THE VARIABILITY OF SOCIAL MEANINGS, Rebeca Martinez Gomez
The Variable Expression of Transitive Subject and Possesor in Wayuunaiki (Guajiro), Andres M. Sabogal
Conceptual Structures of Vietnamese Emotions, Hien T. Tran
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Anglo and Hispanic Vowel Variation in New Mexican English, Susan Brumbaugh
A LONGITUDINAL CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY ON THE ACQUISITION OF NAVAJO VERBS IN CHILDREN AGED 4 YEARS 7 MONTHS THROUGH 11 YEARS 2 MONTHS, Melvatha R. Chee
Highly complex syllable structure: a typological study of its phonological characteristics and diachronic development, Shelece Easterday
Evolution of Complex Predicates with Cuenta Expressing Semantic Events of Cognition in Spanish, Aubrey N. Healey
Intensifiers and the Construction of Identity in New Mexican English, Frances Jones
From Physical Motion to ‘Come and Go’: A Spoken Corpus Based Analysis of Kata ‘go’-specific Constructions in Korean, Jin Hee Kim
DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING: AN ANALYSIS OF UNEXPRESSED SUBJECTS IN ENGLISH DISCOURSE, Amy Marie Lindstrom
CUASI NOMÁS INGLÉS: PROSODY AT THE CROSSROADS OF SPANISH AND ENGLISH IN 20TH CENTURY NEW MEXICO, Jackelyn Van Buren
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Iconicity effects in translation direction: Bimodal bilingual lexical processing, Benjamin Anible
A variationist perspective on Spanish-origin verbs in Paraguayan Guarani, Josefina Bittar Prieto
From the Unexpected to the Unbelievable: Thetics, Miratives and Exclamatives in Conceptual Space, Jose Hugo Garcia Macias
A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of the Semantics of the Russian Verbal Prefix na-, Christopher Hart-Moynihan
Unexpected Accompaniment: Cognitive Mechanisms for Language-Music Mismatch in Time, Hui-Chieh Hsu
Chinese DE constructions in secondary predication: Historical and typological perspectives, You-Min Lin
Cross-linguistic Functions of Complement Clauses in Oral Monologic Texts, Lindsay Morrone
A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO PHONOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM SIGNED LANGUAGES, Corrine Occhino
Illustrating the prototype structures of parts of speech: A multidimensional scaling analysis, Phillip Rogers
Lexical variation, lexical innovation, and speaker motivations: a historical psycholinguistic approach, Jason Timm Dr.
VERBS OF SPEECH AND COGNITION: STRUCTURAL PATTERNS IN NEW MEXICAN SPANISH, Víctor A. Valdivia Ruiz
A Radical Construction Grammar Analysis of Antipassive Constructions, Meagan Vigus
ALOHA IN THE DESERT: Ideologies of Ka ʻōlelo hawaiʻi a mēheuheu, Violet Lovelena WItt
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Three-Dimensional Constraints on Human Cognition as Expressed in Human Language, Christopher Adam
La Quiero Ver~Quiero Verla: Monolingual and bilingual children's variable clitic placement, Anita Rao
Effects of Holistic and Analytic Instructional Approaches on the Acquisition of Various Types of Formulaic Sequences: An Empirical Study of Adult Learners of English as a Second Language, Valentina Temina-Kingsolver
