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Jiayi Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Speakers display considerable variability in language use and representations: they may have different pronunciations of the same word, different intended meanings for the same phrases, and different sets of syntactic constraints in their internalized grammars. Comprehenders adapt to such variability by constantly updating their expectations for…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Phrase Structure, Grammar, Syntax
Ryo Tanaka – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this dissertation is to answer the following question that falls in the intersection of philosophy of language and epistemology: is there any distinctive kind of knowledge that one might possess, merely in virtue of being a native, competent speaker of a certain natural language? When this is expressed as a question specifically…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Knowledge Level, Language Skills, Semantics
Bonanni, Kimberley – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educational outcomes for students with ADHD are often negative. To better understand this problem, the purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the representation of individuals with ADHD in contemporary American English. Data was obtained from the Corpus of American Contemporary English (COCA), using all sections except the academic…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, North American English, Language Usage
Myla P. Grier – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this research was to investigate the representation of black students in contemporary American English. Two questions were addressed, what is the semantic prosody of Black students, and what are the semantic roles for Black students. All the concordance lines containing the phrase Black students were downloaded from the Corpus of…
Descriptors: African American Students, North American English, Semantics, Black Dialects
Dorothy F. Slater – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary effort to combine the fields of education, linguistics, and technology. The practical aims of this study are an attempt to offer insights and avenues for the development and administration of better online presences for institutions of higher learning. While the theoretical purpose aimed to utilize…
Descriptors: Semantics, Users (Information), Web Sites, Language Usage
Shannon Bryant – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This thesis investigates the choice between reflexive pronouns (e.g., "herself") and personal pronouns (e.g., "her") in the expression of subject coreference in English locative prepositional phrases. A persistent puzzle for syntactic theories of pronoun licensing, commonly known as binding theories, it has long been observed…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage, Syntax
Robert Benjamin Cavanaugh – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Communication is fundamental to the human condition but is impaired in life-altering ways for more than 2.4 million individuals with aphasia in the United States. Individuals with aphasia identify discourse-level communication (i.e. language in use) as a high priority for treatment. The central premise of most aphasia treatments is that restoring…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Medical Services, Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Proficiency
Steven G. Gagnon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Due to the typological differences between Korean's aspect system and English's aspect system in terms of progressive construction "-ko iss," learners can no doubt have difficulty acquiring and using the "-ko iss" construction in learner Korean. This dissertation investigates two main points: (i) how is the "-ko iss"…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Korean, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Akari Ohba – ProQuest LLC, 2024
One of the fundamental questions in the field of language acquisition is a learnability problem, which considers how learners acquire certain aspects of language which are not directly provided in the input or whose referents are not readily observable. This dissertation investigates Japanese children's acquisition of various linguistic phenomena,…
Descriptors: Empathy, Verbs, Japanese, Self Concept
Alex John Quijano – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation investigates the ways that natural languages evolve and what it means in the overall cultural evolution of society. Computational and modeling advances have made possible to explore large-scale text data and test hypothesis of language evolution. Similar to biological systems, natural languages are evolving systems with words as…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Diachronic Linguistics, Bibliometrics, Word Frequency
Lori-Ann Newman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The United States history survey course is a standard high school history class in the state of New York. The academic goal is for students to understand key people and developments that molded the United States into its modern identity as a progressive, democratic nation-state. This research examined one manifestation of this course in New York…
Descriptors: Semantics, Vocabulary, Language Usage, History Instruction
Martin Fuchs – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Some links between linguistic meanings and markers change systematically and cyclically in what are known as "grammaticalization paths." Although the empirical observations that give rise to these characterizations are cross-linguistically robust, the representations and cognitive processes that support these shifts are still not well…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Spanish, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Variation
Weissman, Benjamin – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation adopts an experimental approach to studying lie judgments. It focuses on lie judgments to different types of meaning within a pragmatic framework -- namely bare linguistic meaning, explicature, and implicature -- to study whether the (in)directness of communicated false content affects the extent to which an utterance is judged…
Descriptors: Deception, Language Usage, Context Effect, Interpersonal Communication
Arielle A. Gaither – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Bag-of-words is a commonly used text representation method for many text classification applications. However, bag-of-words representation fails to consider the context of the text because it only examines text documents based on the presence of individual words and explores relationships between texts with similar word choices (Bengfort, 2018).…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Classification, Language Usage, Databases
Zilmer, Caleb – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed methods study draws upon theoretical perspectives from usage-based linguistics (UBL) and variationist sociolinguistics to explore four learners' use of second language (L2) Spanish present tense indicative verbal inflectional morphology (i.e., simple present conjugations). The study compares the frequency and distribution of students'…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, High School Students