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Franklin, Lauren R. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Speech is extremely variable along many different dimensions. One source of variability listeners often encounter is accented speech, in which phonological units can systematically differ from the listener's native categories. This dissertation presents five experiments testing how listeners adapt to accent-based phonological variability,…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Speech Communication, Language Variation, Phonology
Tuc C. Chau – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of the current dissertation is to map the relationships between first language (L1), writing quality, and syntactic complexity, accuracy, lexical complexity, and fluency (CALF) in second language (L2) writing. CALF are characteristics of language production that have been of significant interest in L2 writing research for the past few…
Descriptors: Correlation, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tifani Biro – ProQuest LLC, 2021
During conversation, talkers may adapt their speech in a variety of ways. One form of speech adaptation is clear speech, in which a talker selectively hyperarticulates segments when faced with specific communication challenges. The present speech production experiment investigated how talkers adapt a common feature of American English dialects:…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intercultural Communication, North American English, Language Variation
Yanwei Jin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation represents the first attempt to integrate typological, semantic, and psycholinguistic perspectives to elucidate a semantically "bizarre" and "illogical" phenomenon called "expletive negation" (henceforth, EN) which is well known in Romance languages but has so far attracted little attention outside…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, French, Mandarin Chinese
Fine, Alex Brabham – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A fundamental challenge for human cognition is perceiving and acting in a world in which the statistics that characterize available sensory data are non-stationary. This thesis focuses on this problem specifically in the domain of sentence comprehension, where linguistic variability poses computational challenges to the processes underlying…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Research, Syntax, Language Variation