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A Comprehensive Fifty-One Jurisdiction Review Of Statutes Mandating And Encouraging The Teaching Of History In K-12 Schools., A. Edward Cutting

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Word Recognition In The Parafovea: An Eye Movement Investigation Of Chinese Reading, Jinmian Yang

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

Chinese is a logographic writing system that drastically differs from alphabetic scripts in many important aspects. Thus, the nature of parafoveal processing in reading Chinese may be different from that in reading alphabetic languages. Here, four eye-tracking experiments using the boundary display change paradigm (Rayner, 1975) were conducted to explore the role of high level information, like semantic and plausibility information, in the parafovea for Chinese readers.

Experiments 1 and 2 used two-character words that can have the order of their component characters reversed, and still be lexical units as target words. Readers received a parafoveal preview of a target …

Globalization And Identity Formation: A Postcolonial Analysis Of The International Entrepreneur, Banu Ozkazanc-Pan

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

In the United States, the past twenty years has witnessed a growing academic interest in understanding 'globalization,' i.e., a series of interconnected social, cultural, and political processes occurring under integrated economies. Management scholars have tried to understand globalization in terms of its potential consequences for companies conducting business in various countries and regions. However, globalization involves more than this, for as new relationships between people and places occur, new ideas about who they/ us are in those relationships also emerge. How can international management scholars thus understand these complex relationships occurring under globalization? How can they theorize and study such …

Phonological Trends In The Lexicon: The Role Of Constraints, Michael Becker

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

This dissertation shows that the generalizations that speakers project from the lexical exceptions of their language are biased to be natural and output-oriented, and it offers a model of the grammar that derives these biases by encoding lexical exceptions in terms of lexically-specific rankings of universal constraints in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004). In this model, lexical trends, i.e. the trends created by the phonological patterning of lexical exceptions, are incorporated into a grammar that applies deterministically to known items, and the same grammar applies stochastically to novel items. The model is based on the Recursive Constraint Demotion algorithm …

High Stakes: A Poly-Communal Archaeology Of The Pocumtuck Fort, Deerfield, Massachusetts, Siobhan M Hart

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

The process of defining heritage is fraught with the inequalities of social and political power concomitant with colonialism. As a result, disenfranchised and marginalized groups worldwide have been given little say in heritage matters until recently. Though often perceived as "experts" on the past, archaeologists are just one of many stakeholders with interests in how the past is used in the present. As such, archaeologists today face the challenge of decolonizing heritage work through engagement with diverse stakeholder communities. In this dissertation, I explore the ways that archaeologists have been working at this over the last two decades through a …

Do Actions Speak Louder Than Knowledge? Action Manipulation, Parent-Child Discourse And Children’S Mental State Understanding In Pretense, Dawn K Melzer

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

In the current study children 3-5 years of age (N = 75) participated in a mental state task to investigate the effect of action saliency on young children's appreciation of mental states during pretend play activities. They also engaged in a parent-child interaction period, including storybook reading and pretend play activities, in order to examine the relation between mental state term utterances and performance on the mental state task. Two actors appeared side-by-side on a television screen, either in motion or as static images; one actor had knowledge of the animal he was pretending to be; the other actor did …

Word, Phrase, And Clitic Prosody In Bosnian, Serbian, And Croatian, Adam Werle

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

I investigate the phonology of prosodic clitics--independent syntactic words not parsed as independent prosodic words--in Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian. I ask, first, how clitics are organized into prosodic structures, and second, how this is determined by the grammar. Following Zec (1997, 2005), I look at several clitic categories, including negation, prepositions, complementizers, conjunctions, and second-position clitics.

Based on a reanalysis of word accent (Browne and McCawley 1965, Inkelas and Zec 1988, Zec 1999), I argue that in some cases where a preposition, complementizer, or conjunction fails to realize accent determined by a following word, it is not a proclitic-- that …

Digital Storytelling At An Educational Nonprofit: A Case Study And Genre-Informed Implementation Analysis, Lisa Dush

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

Digital stories--two- to five-minute videos consisting of a first-person voiceover set to a slideshow of personal photographs--combine personal reflection with digital technologies. The stories and the process of making them appeal to many organizations, particularly those with a mission of outreach or education. However, despite the inexpensive and fairly easy-to-use digital technologies involved, organizations have typically had difficulty implementing the practice.

This dissertation presents a case study of one organization that hoped to implement digital storytelling, detailing the 15 months after its Writing Director completed a digital storytelling train-the-trainer workshop. The case study organization, Tech Year, is a one-year intensive …

Leviathan’S Rage: State Sovereignty And Crimes Against Humanity In The Late Twentieth Century, Cecil Bryant Lawson

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

This dissertation explores the relationship between state sovereignty and major instances of crimes against humanity committed in the latter 20 ^th century. In order to examine this dynamics of this relationship, the author analyzes the history and theory of the concept of sovereignty and examines five case studies of crimes against humanity: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, Argentina during the military junta from 1976 to 1983, the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda in 1994, and the ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. State sovereign power is shown to be an important facilitating factor in these atrocities as …

The Role Of Lexical Contrast In The Perception Of Intonational Prominence In Japanese, Takahito Shinya

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

In this dissertation, I examine the effects of lexical accent on the perception of intonational prominence in Japanese. I look at how an F0 accent peak is perceived relative to another flanking F0 peak in the same utterance with respect to perceived intonational prominence. Through four experiments, I show that the lexical prosodic structure plays a significant role in the perception of intonational prominence.

I first show that two distinct perceptual processes are at play in the perception of relative perceived prominence in Japanese: accentual boost normalization and downstep normalization . Accentual boost normalization normalizes the accentual boost of an …

Implications For Literacy Learning As Urban Second Grade Students Engage In Digital Storytelling., Jane Carey

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Knowledge, Questions And Answers., Meghan B. Masto

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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A Comparative Study Of Educational Decentralization In China And Korea, 1985-1995 : Motives, Actions, And Results., Yeon Han Chung

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Explaining Variations In The Local Implementation Of A National Policy : Inclusive Education In Four Beijing Schools., Kai Yu

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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How The Emphasis Of Models, Themes, And Concepts In Professional Development Changed Elementary Teachers' Mathematics Teaching And Learning., Janet Ginkus Allen

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Rethinking Women, Development And Empowerment : Toward Transnational Feminist Literacy Practices., Chizu Sato

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Classroom Literacy Practices In Fourth Grade : The Critical Moments., Theresa L. Abodeeb-Gentile

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Systemic Functional Linguistics And The Teaching Of Literature In Urban School Classrooms., Ruth Harman

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Unified Detection And Recognition For Reading Text In Scene Images, Jerod Weinman

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

Although an automated reader for the blind first appeared nearly two-hundred years ago, computers can currently “read” document text about as well as a sevenyear-old. Scene text recognition brings many new challenges. A central limitation of current approaches is a feed-forward, bottom-up, pipelined architecture that isolates the many tasks and information involved in reading. The result is a system that commits errors from which it cannot recover and has components that lack access to relevant information.

We propose a system for scene text reading that in its design, training, and operation is more integrated. First, we present a simple contextual …

A Tenseless Account Of Tensed Sentences And Tensed Belief., Stephan V. Torre

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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A Defense Of A Particularist Research Program., Uri D. Leibowitz

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Sound Education : An Ethnographic Exploration Of Power Relations In High School Classrooms With Mainstreamed Oral Deaf Students., Arlene Hijara

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Differences Between European And Lebanese Americans' Values About Marriage., Bilal M. Ghandour

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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College Impact On Civic Attitudes Of Asian American And White Undergraduate Students : A Comparative Study., Chiaki Kotori

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Cosmopolitanism And Abjection In Montesquieu's Persian Letters., Veronica A. O'Connor

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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'Can' And Consequentialism : An Account Of Options., Edward Lee Abrams

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Understanding Voice In The Disciplines : The Struggles Of Latina Non-Traditional Students And Their Instructors., Doris M. Correa

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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The [De] Construction Of Institutional Representation Of Student Achievement : An Ethnographic Case Study Of An Ell Student's Academic Growth., Pierre W. Orelus

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Focusing On Strength : Building Home-Classroom Connections With Latino Families In Urban Schools., Nelida Matos

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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Nuestras Voces, Nuestras Palabras (Our Voices, Our Words) : A Qualitative Study Of Puerto Rican Parental Involvement., Brian John Rachmaciej

Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014

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