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Christopher J. Lowy – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation examines the dynamic relationship between written language and literary fiction in modern and contemporary Japanese-language literature. I analyze how script and narration come together to function as a site of expression, and how they connect to questions of visuality, textuality, and materiality. Informed by work from the field…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Japanese, Authors, Language Research
Danyang Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation studies the acquisition of Mandarin relative clauses (RCs), including the distributional pattern of different RC types in adult child-directed speech (study 1) and four-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's comprehension of different RC types (study 2). An RC is a subordinate clause that modifies a noun and is embedded within a…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Phrase Structure, Language Research, Child Language
Kerry Christine McCullough – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates a typologically rare linguistic phenomenon found in Irish from three different perspectives: how it challenges phonological theory, how it is used by contemporary speakers, and how its written representation affects its acquisition. Initial consonant mutation (ICM), as it appears in the Celtic languages, is known to…
Descriptors: Phonology, Irish, Pronunciation, Language Research
Lockwood, Hunter Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation is a descriptive grammar of Potawatomi, a critically endangered Algonquian language now only spoken as a first language by a handful of elders in northern Wisconsin. Throughout, the goal is to present an authoritative linguistic description of Potawatomi by drawing on direct elicitation, a corpus of new texts gathered in close…
Descriptors: Grammar, American Indian Languages, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Showalter, Catherine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Adult second language (L2) learners often experience difficulty with novel L2 phonological contrasts, limiting their ability to establish contrastive lexical representations of L2 words. It has been demonstrated that the availability of orthographic input (OI), and variables interacting with OI, can shape the inferences learners make about L2…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Phonology, Linguistic Input
Lin, Chihkai – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The phonological inventory of Old Okinawan is often reconstructed according to modern Ryukyuan languages. Although the importance of historical resources is never ignored in the study of Okinawan historical linguistics, reconstruction based on historical sources is not well investigated yet, due to the two reasons that a) authors of previous…
Descriptors: Phonology, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Diachronic Linguistics
Zaugg, Isabelle Alice – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Despite the growing sophistication of digital technologies, it appears they are contributing to language extinction on a par with devastating losses in biodiversity. With language extinction comes loss of identity, inter-generational cohesion, culture, and a global wealth of knowledge to address future problems facing humanity. Linguists estimate…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Language Skill Attrition, Self Concept, Language Maintenance
Cuauhtemoc Garcia-Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Across the centuries, the question of the origin of language has captivated the human imagination. Many theories have been proposed to address fundamental questions such as: Where do languages come from? How do they evolve? What are the societal drivers of this change? Historically, one of the biggest challenges in addressing these questions has…
Descriptors: Written Language, Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Diachronic Linguistics
Martin, Nelly – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study explores the relationship between language selection and identity construction in contemporary Indonesia through an examination of the function of English, a language that still receives stigma from many Indonesians and the government, particularly in Indonesian popular texts published after 1998. Utilizing hybrid critical approaches…
Descriptors: Correlation, Indonesian, Social Change, Laws
Yu, Qiaona – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The triad dimensions of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) has been widely used for assessing second language performance and development. Unlike accuracy and fluency, the construct of Chinese syntactic complexity has not been comprehensibly conceptualized or operationalized. Moreover, not tailored to the typological differences such as the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Chinese, Accuracy, Language Fluency
Tatsumi, Naofumi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Previous research shows that American learners of Japanese (AJs) tend to differ from native Japanese speakers in their compliment responses (CRs). Yokota (1986) and Shimizu (2009) have reported that AJs tend to respond more negatively than native Japanese speakers. It has also been reported that AJs' CRs tend to lack the use of avoidance or…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Pragmatics, Cultural Differences, Japanese
Wilson, Damian Chase Vergara – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study is to track the diachronic development of exemplar clusters formed by the adjectives in the Spanish expression of becoming "quedar(se)" + ADJ (e.g. "quedar(se) solo" "to be left alone", "quedar(se) espantado" "to get scared"). This approach applies the same system of analysis used by Bybee & Eddington (2006) in their…
Descriptors: Verbs, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Spanish
Salgado-Robles, Francisco – ProQuest LLC, 2011
It is generally believed that study abroad (SA) is the most efficient and successful way to acquire proficiency in a second language (L2). SA is a crucial component of students' second language acquisition (SLA) process, for it puts them in situations in which they can use the language on a daily basis and interact with native speakers. More than…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning