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Verb Stem Alternation In Vaiphei, Jesse Prichard

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis describes the form and function of verb stem alternations (VSAs) in Vaiphei, a Kuki-Chin (KC) language belonging to the larger Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. In the existing literature on Vaiphei and Kuki-Chin verb stem alternations, there is no treatment of the form and function of Vaiphei verb stem alternations and how they may be used in classifying Vaiphei in the broader Northern Kuki-Chin language family. I document the form and function of Vaiphei verb stem alternations, showing how these compare to other Northern Kuki-Chin languages and where to classify Vaiphei in Northern Kuki-Chin.

Participants were …

Willkomen Beim German Journal - Welcome To German Journal, Paulina Broda, Carina Staudte

German Journal Sprache Literatur Kultur

No abstract provided.

Testing The Relationship Between Dialect Density And Social Interaction, Madeline Marita

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

With over 1300 international students from more than 70 countries, Western Kentucky University prides itself on being a diverse, welcoming community. However, many international students have a tendency to associate with other international students with similar dialects rather than with English-speaking students from the United States. This research explores the relationship between dialect density (how strongly a dialect or accent is expressed) and social interaction of individuals from the international student population on Western Kentucky University’s campus. Results revealed that the international students who had the mildest self-perceived dialect density had high self-perceived social interaction scores. Results also indicated that …

Backward Transfer Of Apology Strategies From Japanese To English: Do English L1 Speakers Use Japanese-Style Apologies When Speaking English?, Candice April Flowers

Theses and Dissertations

When learning a second language, there are elements of a learner's native language that can transfer and are exhibited during production in the second language. This can extend not only to the way things are said but even to gestures that are language- and speech-act-specific. However, there is evidence that the same can occur backwards, that is to say that elements of a second language can be exhibited during production of one's native language (Pavlenko and Jarvis, 2002). This study focuses on English L1 learners of Japanese who have spent significant time both in country and learning the language to …

Attitudes Towards Racism In Kkk Forums: Denouncement, Avoidance, And Neutralization, Natasha R. Wood

Student Theses

Recent research has attempted to better understand the complexity of modern terrorism, which seems evermore present in our worldview. However, the scope of the literature lacks representation of far-right ideology, and that of White supremacists within the campaign. Specifically, the potential fear of being labeled as a racist has been recognized as both an obstacle to communicating racial issues and as a potential driver behind the self-imposed social exclusion of White supremacists, which may further contribute to their radicalization rigidity around race-relevant political issues. The current study is an inquiry into the internal perceptions and conceptualizations of racism among members …

Word Counts In Response To Cognitively Demanding Essay Prompts As Reflections Of General Cognitive Ability And Broad Cognitive Abilities, Michael Beaumont Armstrong

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

Natural language processing techniques can be used to analyze text and speech data. These techniques have been applied within many domains to date but have only recently been examined in the domain of personnel assessment. By linking workplace-relevant constructs such as general cognitive ability (GCA) to natural language processing outcomes such as word counts, a foundation for language-based psychological assessment of those abilities can be laid. Over 400 participants were recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk to write cognitively demanding essays and complete a battery of cognitive tests. Essays were analyzed using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). Structural equation modeling …

A ;-) At The Past And Future Of English, Tiffany Li

Faculty Scholarship

It is always with a certain amount of wry, knowing amusement that we turn to the thoughts of people from the past remarking on the future (that is, our present). It is similar to how slightly older children view slightly younger children. They were so innocent then, those thinkers of the past! Look at what they thought computers could do, what language could be! How adorably naïve! Not like us, we who have put away our childish things.

Of course, the science fiction of our present may someday seem as pathetically misconceived as that of the past. So, too, will …

Early Literacy Abilities In Spanish-English Emergent Bilingual Children From Varied Dialectal Backgrounds, Antonietta Mastrota

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Hispanic population within the United States has grown to a considerable amount. The state of Florida’s population is 25% Hispanic, with projected estimates of this population continuing to grow in the coming years (Ortman & Shin, 2011). Statistics show that 28.3% of the state’s population, over the age of five, speak a language other than English at home. With this considerable number of Spanish-speakers comes the responsibility to adjust certain educational practices to best meet their needs. Literacy is an essential part of learning, and therefore assessing early literacy is an essential part to any child’s academic development.

Phonological …

Articulatory Patterns In Children Who Use Cochlear Implants: An Ultrasound Measure Of Velar Stop Production In Bilingual Speakers, Katherine Javier

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Coarticulation occurs in running speech when one speech sound or phoneme overlaps with another. It can be considered a result of the way we sequence and organize our articulators to efficiently produce consecutive consonants and vowels in fluent speech. Previous research has suggested that measures of coarticulation can provide insight into the maturity of the motor speech planning system (Barbier, Perrier, Ménard, Payan, Tiede, & Perkell, 2013; Zharkova & Hewlett, 2009; Zharkova, Hewlett, & Hardcastle, 2011). Speech stability has also been suggested as an indicator of motor speech maturity in previous research using ultrasound imaging of velar-vowel targets (Frisch, Maxfield, …

The Impact Of Vocabulary Knowledge On Nonword Judgments In Spanish-English Bilinguals, Marisa E. Leyden

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis suggests that the range of vocabulary in an individual’s lexicon has an influence on in their assessment of nonword wordlikeness. The study included thirteen Spanish-English bilinguals who participated in a language dominance questionnaire, standardized assessments of Spanish and English vocabulary knowledge, and Spanish and English wordlikeness judgment tasks. Resulting data demonstrated moderate correlations between vocabulary knowledge and performance on nonword wordlikeness judgement tasks in Spanish and English. Participants with larger lexicons appeared more tolerant of less probable nonwords, those with low phonotactic probability, while those with smaller lexicons were less accepting of nonwords with low phonotactic probability. The …

Learning Of Literary Heritage Of Ogahiy In Extra Curricular Reading Classes Of Primary Education, M. Jumaniyozova

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

This article explores the ways of learning in primary class extracurricular study lessons about Muhammadrizo Ogahiy `s life and work who left great literary heritage as a historian, translator and poet in Uzbek classical literature

Matnazar Abdulhakim's Literary Poetry, Stylistic Devices And Expressive Means, J. Otoboy

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

This article deals with the poet Matnazar Abdulhakim's poetry, its artistic aspects, its stylistic colors, poet-speaking art, and artistic imagery. The poet's poetry emphasizes the emphasis on such concepts and qualities as the most important thing in human life, such as purity, honesty, friendship

The Classification And Comparison Of English And Uzbek Lullabies, M. Nurmatova, F. J. Karimova

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

The article illustrates the comparison between English and Uzbek lullabies based on their semantic classification

Applying Communicative Language Teaching (Clt) To Develop Speaking Skill In Efl Classrooms., Z. A. Pulatova

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

There are different approaches to improve students’ speaking skill. One of the approaches is through communicative language teaching (CLT) approach. CLT is the approach in which the students are asked to use the language for communication in real situation. CLT will allow students the opportunity to use the target language in an authentic way.The article deals with the issue of working out useful and effective ways and some methods of teaching and developing students’ speaking skills in English foreign language classes

The Intrepretation Of A Word Or Poetry In Matnazar Abdulhakim’S Journalism, H. Gaipova

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

In this article are highlighted journalistic views about literary words and poetry in the literary thoughts janre of well-known poet M. Abdulhakim

Perception & Perspective: An Analysis Of Discourse And Situational Factors In Reference Frame Selection, Robert J. Ross, Kavita E. Thomas

Conference papers

To integrate perception into dialogue, it is necessary to bind spatial language descriptions to reference frame use. To this end, we present an analysis of discourse and situational factors that may influence reference frame choice in dialogues. We show that factors including spatial orientation, task, self and other alignment, and dyad have an influence on reference frame use. We further show that a computational model to estimate reference frame based on these features provides results greater than both random and greedy reference frame selection strategies.

Agency In Action: Exploring User Responses And Rhetorical Choices In Interactive Data Displays, Jacob D. Rawlins, Gregory D. Wilson, Kate Crane

Faculty Publications

n 2014, Rawlins and Wilson proposed a typology of agential interactions between users and designers of interactive data displays. This article tests that typology by studying 20 users working with three different types of interactive data displays and answering questions, which were coded by verb and actor and analyzed for themes. The authors show that rhetorical agency is marked by thoughts, actions, and language. Affordances by the designer open a shared rhetorical space where user and designer are coparticipants. As interactivity increases, participants see themselves as rhetorical agents in a community of rhetorical agents rather than as conduits of information.

Russian Sentence Corpus: Benchmark Measures Of Eye Movements In Reading In Russian, Anna K. Laurinavichyute, Irina A. Sekerina, Svetlana Alexeeva, Kristina Bagdasaryan, Reinhold Kliegl

Publications and Research

This article introduces a new corpus of eye movements in silent reading—the Russian Sentence Corpus (RSC). Russian uses the Cyrillic script, which has not yet been investigated in cross-linguistic eye movement research. As in every language studied so far, we confirmed the expected effects of low-level parameters, such as word length, frequency, and predictability, on the eye movements of skilled Russian readers. These findings allow us to add Slavic languages using Cyrillic script (exemplified by Russian) to the growing number of languages with different orthographies, ranging from the Roman-based European languages to logographic Asian ones, whose basic eye movement benchmarks …

Composition Of A Dramatic Work, D. Kuronov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

This article describes the features of composition of a dramatic work, compositional details and means, their role and artistic-aesthetical functions in the structure of a work.

The Tradition Of Creating "Hikmat" In Uzbek Classical Literature, S Rafiddinov,, I. Mannopov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The existence of hikmat tradition under influence of “Divani hikmat” by Ahmad Yassaviy in Uzbek literature is scientifically substantiated in the thesis.

The Role Of Folklore In The Formation Of The Child's Inner World (On Example, Of The Story "Kezargon Boychechak" By A. Obidjon), B. Mukhtoraliev

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The article examines on example of the tale “Kezargon Boychechak” by Anvar Obidjon the formation of the ideas of national self-consciousness, the feeling of love for the Motherland. It features the writer’s ability to use the traditions of folklore.

Reflection Of Female Destiny In The English Literature Of The Victorian Period, Kh. Mukhammedova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The article analyzes the fate of women in the works of English writers of the Victorian period. During this period writers such as C. Dickens, Sisters Bronte, E. Gaskell, J. Eliot described the fate of women in their works in different ways.

Problems Of Intercultural Dialogue And Translation, K. Karimov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The article presents a comprehensive analysis of the unity of the form and content of translations and requirements for translation using the example of a number of works.

Sugar-Beet Is The Most Valuable Technical Plant, X. Shodmonov,, Sh. Akramov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

This article highlights the valuable of sugar-beet, its importance in the national economy, agro-technics, soil and air deficiency characteristics. Suggestions for the production of sugar-beet in Central Fergana and its sugar production are provided

Categories Of The Concept, A. Mamatov,, R. Akhrorova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The conception and it’s types are mentioned in this article.

Phraseological Units Is A Mirror Of The German National Culture, N. Akhmadjonov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

This article discusses the origin and use of German language phrazeologisms.

The Concept Of Peace And Man In The Uzbek And Russian Literature Of The 20th Century, A. Kosimov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

This article is about mutual relations between Uzbek and Russian literature and also is about development tendencies of small prose in the 60 th - 80 th years of XX th century

Pragmatic Features Of Poetic Speech, U. Nosirova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

In this article some pragmatic features of poetic speech are researched.

Consonance Of Oriental Views In The "Confession" By Leo Tolstoy, D. Khusenova

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

The article studies the harmony of oriental philosophy, especially Sufism in “Confession” by L. N. Tolstoy and presents comparison with some models of Uzbek classic literature

Composition Of A Dramatic Work, D. Kuronov

Scientific journal of the Fergana State University

This article describes the features of composition of a dramatic work, compositional details and means, their role and artistic-aesthetical functions in the structure of a work.