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Niko Besnier's Review Of Janet W. D. Dougherty's West Futuna-Aniwa: An Introduction To A Polynesian Outlier Language, Niko Besnier

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 4, Ann S. Burrows, Mark R. Eaby Jr., John L. Shultz, Faye Miller, Lester Miller, Allen Folsom, Marilyn K. Wilson-Bast, Mary Eva Redcay, Gail M. Hartmann, Harold C. Moyer, Charles Messner, Walter Gottshall, Richard Shaner, R. H. Piercy, James H. Dawley, Robert Yard, Kathryn Delaung, Lois Biamon-Sunflower, Clifford Wright-Sunflower

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• America's Pieced Patchwork Quilts
• A Tribute to the Late Dr. Earl F. Robacker
• Sundial Lore
• Square Dancing, Jigging & Hoedowning at the Folk Festival
• Bronze Working at the Festival
• Calico Prints
• The Country Kitchen
• Our Farmers Market
• Festival Focus
• Festival Programs
• The Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect and the One Room School
• Early American Lighting
• Primitive Pennsylvania Dutch Carving
• Heartland Taverns of the Hinterland
• Tinnery
• The Ancient Craft of Flute Making
• Mind Your Own Beeswax

A Comparative Study Of Three Language Sampling Methods Using Developmental Sentence Scoring, Cheryl Diane Dong

Dissertations and Theses

The present study sought to determine the effect different stimulus material has on the language elicited from children. Its purpose was to determine whether a significant difference existed among language samples elicited three different ways when analyzed using DSS. Eighteen children between the ages of 3.6 and 5.6 years were chosen to participate in the study. All of the children had normal bearing. normal receptive vocabulary skills and no demonstrated or suspected physical or social delays. Three language samples. each elicited by either toys. pictures. or stories. were obtained from each child. For each sample. a corpus of 50 utterances …

The Effects Of Two Management Techniques On The Generalization Of A Syntax Structure, Karin Jeanne Goodling

Dissertations and Theses

The effectiveness of any language training program is determined by generalization of the clinically trained behaviors to spontaneous speech. Traditional language programs which employ operant procedures to establish the behavior in the clinic and reinforcement from family, teachers and peers in a variety of settings to obtain generalization, have been successful in establishing the use of grammatical rules in the clinic setting, but reportedly have failed to promote generalization. Recent literature in the areas of semantics and pragmatics has produced a trend toward teaching language in natural contexts. The purpose of this study was to investigate: 1) whether a group …

Sex-Based Differences In English Argumentative Text: A Tagmemic Sociolinguistic Perspective, Susan Lynn Peterson

Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive

This work applies insights from sociolinguistics, text-linguistics, social psychology, women's studies, informal logic, and tagmemic theory to the task of investigating sex-based textual differences in argumentative text. More specifically, it (1) lays out a means (both theoretical and methodological) of analyzing argumentative text; (2) analyzes the differences between argumentative texts produced by university freshman women and those produced by their male counterparts; (3) compares the findings of this analysis to previous studies in sex-based differences in English; (4) presents a sketch of these texts' social production context with an emphasis on sex-based social patterns in communication style and in moral …

On The Interaction Of Linguistic Texts And Human Knowledge, Kerry Stewart Robichaux

Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive

This study examines some aspects of the interaction of linguistic texts and human knowledge. The quest for greater context in linguistics suggests the focus of this study, viz., the effect of a text on the knowledge of its receiver. A practical problem arises in a study of this sort, however, viz., how should knowledge be represented so that the effects a text has on it can be identified and analyzed? One of the notions employed in the field of artificial intelligence, i.e., the notion of frames, is applied to the problem. In essence, then, this study shows the possible relationships …

Computer Assisted Dialect Adaptation: The Tucanoan Experiment, Robert Bruce Reed

Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive

This dissertation provides the theoretical basis for a computer program that adapts textual material from one language of the Tucanoan family to another. Tucanoan languages are spoken by small groups living in southeastern Colombia, northwestern Brazil, northern Peru, and northern Ecuador. This work represents the first attempt to apply principles of machine translation and computational linguistics to indigenous languages of Colombia. It discusses aspects of translation theory relevant to machine translation. Some features of the Tucanoan languages relevant to the adaptation process are discussed in depth, including differences in suffix systems marking case, noun classifiers, and the evidential systems of …

Proto-Quichean Kinship, David Frederick Oltrogge

Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive

The Quichean languages are comprised of a family of related languages of the Mayan stock, spoken principally in the highlands of Guatemala in Central America. Some of the kinship terminologies currently in use by the speakers of these languages manifest a Hawaiian classification, while what seem to be vestiges of an Omaha system are also scattered throughout the area. In Tzeltal and Tzotzil, two languages of the Cholan family (also Mayan) spoken in Mexico, Omaha systems are currently in use. The question therefore arises as to what sort of system was present in Proto-Quichean (PQ). On the basis of phonological …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 3, Karl J. R. Arndt, Donald Graves, Michael Colby, Paul Mcgill, Nancy K. Gaugler, Harry E. Chrisman, William T. Parsons

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The First German Broadside and Newspaper Printing of the American Declaration of Independence
• An Overview of Flax and Linen Production in Pennsylvania
• A Civil War Soldier's Tale
• Samuel W. Pennypacker's Translation of the Haslibacher Hymn
• An Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. Sarah Hunter
• In Memoriam: Earl F. Robacker, 1904-1985
• Aldes un Neies / Old & New

New Russian Books On The Pacific, 1982-1983, Patricia Polansky

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Review Of Style And Variables In English, Timothy Shopen And Joseph Williams, Elaine Chaika

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Ternarity And Obligatory Branching In Pirahã, Daniel L. Everett

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "In this paper it is argued that the analysis of stress placement in Pirahã offers important new evidence on the proper characterization of prosodic organization as well as the notational devices necessary to express this organization. Specifically, I will show that Pirahã stress placement is intractable to either a grid account (Prince 1983) or a binary branching analysis but that an insightful perspective on a variety of stress related phenomena is available if we assume that Pirahã has ternary, obligatory branching feet. Evidence is presented from the assignment of stress in morphologically simple words, lexical compounds, words …

Grammatical Relations In Eskimo: A Response To Kalamár, Richard J. Nivens

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "Kalmár (1979) attempts to disprove what he sees as two basic assumptions behind the relational grammar analysis of Eskimo antipassives. His arguments, however, have at least two flaws: a misunderstanding of relational grammar, and a less-than-comprehensive view of the Eskimo data."

The Languages Of The Zambales Mountains: A Philippine Lexicostatistic Study, John S. Wimbish

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "A lexicostatistic survey was conducted in early 1985 as part of a comprehensive study of the languages spoken in the Zambales Mountains of the Philippines. The survey involved the collection and analysis of some forty word lists, resulting in the definition of six distinct languages in an area whose linguistic situation had previously been relatively unknown. This paper presents these survey findings in the form of a language tree, and introduces a general-use computer program which greatly enhanced the accuracy and speed of the lexicostatistic analysis."

Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 30 (1986)

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

Indirect Objects And Incorporation In Mazatec, Daniel M. Agee, Stephen A. Marlett

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "This paper deals with indirect objects in Mazatec. It has two fairly modest goals. The first is to describe the superficial characteristics of indirect objects in Mazatec. We claim that they occur as prepositional phrases which are obligatorily incorporated into the verb (in a specific way described below). The second goal is to describe the constructions in which indirect objects occur in Mazatec. We do this primarily within the framework of Relational Grammar (Perlmutter 1983a, Perlmutter and Rosen 1984), claiming that indirect objects occur in simple clauses and also in clauses with Benefactive-3 Advancement, 2-3 Retreat (personal …

Reading And Listening Enrichment For Esl Students, Karen Aili Liu Lo

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Padilla, Anne. First and Second Language Acquisition: A Comparison
• Scott, Angela. Salted and Unsalted Snacks: Taste Preferences of Second Grade Students in a Rural Area School
• Fuqua, Nancy. Acceptance by High School Students of Muffins Containing Supplemental Soy Polysaccharides
• Mans, Glee. Preference Levels of High School Freshmen for Four Cheese Food Products
• Denney, Pam. Consumer Acceptance of UHT Choclate Lowfat Milk
• Harris, Carla. Jacques-Louis David: Raphael of the Sansculottes
• Vaughn, James. Corporate Reorganization …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 2, William T. Parsons, Mary Shuler Heimburger, Karen Guenther, Martin W. Wilson, Robert G. Adams

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Letters and Reports from Pennsylvania Germans in the American West
• Religion in an Iron-Making Community: Bethesda Baptist Church and Hopewell Village
• Delaware Water Gap: Birth and Death of a Resort Town
• The Search for Our German Ancestors III: "The Royal Connection"
• Aldes un Neies

The Development Of Speech Research Tools On Mit's Lisp Machine-Based Workstations, D. Scott Cyphers, Robert H. Kassel, David H. Kaufman, Hong C. Leung, Mark A. Randolph, Stephanie Seneff, John E. Unverferth Iii, Timothy Wilson, Victor W. Zue

Publications

In recent years, a number of useful speech- and language-related research tools have been under development at MIT. These tools are aids for efficiently analyzing the acoustic characteristics of speech and the phonological properties of a language. They are playing a valuable role in our own research, as well as in research conducted elsewhere. This paper describes several of the systems being developed for use on our Lisp Machine workstations.

Wit And Humor In Asl, Keila Tooley

Masters Theses

In his article "Linguistics and the Study of Poetic Language," Stankewicz (1960) characterizes poetic organization as "completely embedded in language and fully determined by its possibilities." The purpose of this study is to examine the form that poetic function assumes in a language that itself has a structural organization fundamentally different from that of oral languages and in which, accordingly, the possibilities for poetic organization are radically different.

In wit and poetry, elements of form and meaning—a linguistic system--are used to create complex multi-layered expressions with multiple meanings and systems of form and meaning. Similarities--and differences—in form, function and meaning …

Orthographic Reform In Kope, John M. Clifton

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "In this paper, we will examine how local attitudes played a role in orthographic reform in Kope. In section 2 the previous orthographic tradition is outlined. Then in sections 3 and 4 we examine areas of apparent concern where local feelings pointed to new understanding of the phonological system and no change was made. Finally, in sections 5 and 6 we examine areas in which a genuine case for reform could be made and changes resulted."

Kanasi: A Brief Grammar Sketch, Ronald W. Pappenhagen

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.

A Relational Grammar Approach To Verb Agreement In Lakota, Gray C. Plunkett, Michael Mckeever

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "This paper examines verb agreement rules and their application in Lakota, a Siouan language. In particular, it explores how to best account for verb agreement in Lakota in a Relational Grammar framework. We will argue that certain concepts of Relational Grammar (RG), especially the notions of level and working 2, provide the necessary theoretical apparatus for formulating concise rules of verb agreement in Lakota. These rules account for all major transitive, ditransitive, and intransitive clause types. It also lends support to Perlmutter's claim that the notion of working term-x is needed to state rules in the grammars …

Reduplication In Majang, Peter Unseth

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "Majang is a member of the Nilo-Saharan family of languages, part of the Surma cluster. It is spoken in southwestern Ethiopia in Kefa and Illubador provinces, with a small group also in Wellega. There are only two published linguistic descriptions, one by Cerulli (1948) and a recent, more comprehensive and reliable one by Bender (1983). In his article, Bender gives five examples of verb reduplication in Magang (1983a:121). Building on Bender, this present paper gives many more examples of verb reduplication, explains the different uses of reduplication, and describes the phonological rules for reduplicating. Examples of (possibly) …

Magati:Some Notes On An Unknown Language Of Northern Afghanistan, Jadwiga Pstrusinska

Documents and Reports

In the course of fieldwork conducted in 1976 in northern Afghanistan in the vicinity of Faryab province, the expedition came across an unknown group which differed from the surrounding population in many ways, and they used a distinct language, magati or zaboni magati.

A Burkean Logological Analysis Of Doctrine And Covenants Section 88, Joann Farias

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis applies Kenneth Burke's method of logology as exemplified in The Rhetoric of Religion to analyze the Mormon text Doctrine and Covenants Section 88. This method of logology is based on the assumption that what is said about God in theology reveals a religion's use of language to influence human motives. The logological method uses six analogies to discover the motives implicit in religious terminologies. These six analogies are as follows: words-Word, Matter-Spirit, the Negative, the Titular, Time-Eternity, and the Formal.

This study revealed that the terminology contained in Doctrine and Covenants uses motives far diferent from the motives …

A Comparative Study Of The Northwestern Syntax Screening Test Data, Sharon Ann Moore

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to compare NSST data (Lee, 1969, 1971) with data obtained in Portland, Oregon for children 4.0-4.11 years of age. The questions this study sought to answer were: 1) Is there a significant difference between the expressive and receptive scores obtained by Lee, (1969, 1971) and the scores obtained in Portland, Oregon? 2) What are the means, standard deviations and percentiles of the NSST scores of a select group of four-year-old children in Portland, Oregon?

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 35, No. 1, Mary Laycock Selders, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Priscilla Stevenson Lockard, Guy Graybill, John D. Kendig, Elda F. Gehris

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Grandmother's Flower Garden: The Quilts of Sadie Ida Christian Laycock
• Our Good Old One-Room School Days
• A Parade from the Past
• The Philip Arndts of Manheim (1797-1888)
• Pennsylvania German Cookery
• Aldes un Neies

Viktor Krupa, The Polynesian Languages: A Guide (Book Review), Niko Besnier

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.