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A Comparative Study Of Empathic And Comprehensive Listening Skills And Act Assessment Composite Score, Kris M. Neumann Koester

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An Investigation Of The Type-Token Ratio, Kelley Patricia Ritchie

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Written Communications' Criteria Identified By Accounting Supervisors For Evaluating Accounting Reports In Public Accounting Firms, Gail Bjelverud Brostrom

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The problem of this study was to determine the written communication criteria job-entry level accountants need to enable them to write accounting memorandums and reports that are acceptable to their supervisors and the accounting firm they work for.A list of writing criteria and definitions was developed with the assistance of accounting educators and a jury of accountants. Lists of criteria and definitions were sent to 43 senior accountants employed by the five CPA firms participating in this study. These senior accountants were direct supervisors of job-entry level accountants and critiqued the writing of job-entry level accountants. Of the 43 senior …

Otto Von Essen's GrundzüGe Der Hochdeutschen Satzintonation (Fundamentals Of High German Sentence Intonation) : A Translation, Kathleen E. RüPpel

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The Relationship Of Frequency And Social Desirability Of First Names With Academic And Sex Role Variables., Debra Ruth Crisp

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Much research has been done to support the notion that name stereotypes exist. These stereotypes appear to be related to the popularity of names. The present study was conducted in an effort to discover whether certain types of names were actually associated with different behavioral or attitudinal factors in the people who possessed those names.For a sample of 1094 University of North Dakota students who were first-time entering freshmen in the fall of 1977, the following data was collected, as much as possible, for every subject: first name; the number of times the name occurred in the population; a social …

The Interpretation Of Metaphor In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Joan Livingston-Webber

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The Interactions Between Speech-Language Pathologists And Learning Disability Specialists With Regard To The Elementary School-Age Child With Reading Difficulties, Karen Jean Wischow

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The C:R:F Procedure For Screening The Language Of Kindergarten And First-Grade Level Children, Nancy Leigh Wright

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An Investigation Of The Performance Of Preschool Children On Selected Spatial-Prepositional Items From Three Tests Of Basic Concepts, Michelle A. Sellers

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Hemispheric Specialization And The Processing Of Stroop Color-Word Stimuli, Joel Patrick Newman

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The present investigation examined neuropsychological hypothesis of Stroop color-word interference. It was hypothesized that the combination of verbal and color content in one stimulus provided an opportunity to examine relative left- and right-hemisphere contributions to cognition in neurologically-intact subjects. Several individual difference variables of lateral brain function, including characteriological or trait anxiety and situation-specific arousal, were chosen as independent variables. Additionally, visual field of presentation and hand of response were systematically varied.Subjects consisted of neurologically intact psychiatric inpatients, professional hospital staff, undergraduate students, and members of the community as a whole. They received discretely projected Stroop color-word stimuli in the …

The Structure And Rhetorical Effect Of Seven Questions In Koine Greek, Peter E. Unseth

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Most of the latest work in understanding Koine Greek questions has concerned itself with taxonomies based on the dichotomy between real and rhetorical questions, as epitomized by John Beekman and John Callow (1974). However, some are now pointing out that other factors, beyond the grasp of this taxonomy, enter into questions within conversations.

In an effort to look at these questions in more depth, this paper applies two analytical models to seven questions in Koine Greek. The first is the illocutionary force model, particularly as formalized by John Searle (1977). The second is the rules of Repartee as formulated by …

Word-Shortening In Southeastern Tepehuan, Elizabeth R. Willett

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This thesis is a technical description of the phonological rules and processes of Tepehuan, with many examples in the practical orthography. By taking the position that vowel length and open syllables are underlying in SET, I predict accent placement on all forms. In addition, phonetic forms of stems are predicted by a set of rules coordinating with accent. This phonological system has the result of reducing the length of words and highlighting their accent centers.

All final single vowels drop; this reduces the length of the word by one syllable, and makes the penultimate syllable into a closed final syllable. …

Marking Grammatical Relations In Southeastern Tepehuan, Thomas L. Willett

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This thesis analyzes, from a Relational Grammar point of view, the usages of several verb suffixes of Southeastern Tepehuan that deal with the relationships among the central arguments of the predicate of a clause. The verb word in Southeastern Tepehuan contains all the information of tense, aspect, and mode, and is modified by adverbial elements of time, manner, and location. Nouns and pronouns can be used to identify one of the arguments; and conjunctions coordinate the resulting clause with, or subordinate it to, other clauses.

Only two affixes are used to denote person and number of the central arguments (terms) …

The French Of The French Cree (Michif) Language, Mary J. Peske

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French Cree is a language with a verb system based primarily on a Plains Cree dialect and with noun phrases stemming almost entirely from a French dialect or dialects. This study focuses on the French portion of the language and its historical origins. To determine these origins, phonological and semantic features that distinguish French Cree French from standard French are presented and compared with modern French of France and of Canada, archaic French dialects of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and a few other North American French dialects. The considerable amount of literature dealing with the historical development of …

Oral, Written, And Read Syntax Of Forty-Six Learning Disabled Children, Carole Thompson Aitchison

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Problem: This study was designed to meet the need for further investigation of the relationships among oral language, written language, and reading. The following questions were investigated: What syntactical structures characterize the oral and written language of forty-six learning disabled children? What is the relationship between the structures used in the oral and written language of the forty-six subjects? What is the relationship between structures used in oral and written language and errors in oral language? Is the analysis system described by Dever (1978) useful for the purpose of analyzing the syntax of oral language, written language, and reading errors …

An Introduction To And An Initial Examination Of The Visual Half Field Shut Down Theory Of Reflective Lateral Eye Movements, Barbara Arneson Yutrzenka

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Advancements To Direct Object In Southeastern Tepehuan, Thomas L. Willett

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

From the introduction: "This paper seeks to justify a bistratal analysis for certain clauses in Southeastern Tepehuan (SET). In intransitive clauses (where the subject is the only nominal), or in transitive clauses where a direct object is also present, the account of subject and object agreement is straight forward. But in transitive clauses where a notional indirect object or benefactee is present as well, these are advanced to the status of direct object; they replace the initial direct object and determine object agreement on the verb. In section 1 I give the pertinent facts about term marking and show that …

Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 25 (1981)

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

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A Course In Basic Grammatical Analysis, John P, Daly, Larry Lyman, Mary Rhodes

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

From the preface: "The purpose of this material is to give the beginning student the means to analyze the basic grammatical structures of previously unanalyzed languages. No former study of a foreign language or prior linguistic training is presupposed. In conjunction with practice in problem solving, the lessons guide the beginning student in doing basic grammatical analysis and prepare him for applying in a field situation the grammatical concepts he has acquired.

"The theory on which this course is based is Standard Transformational Grammar with some modifications and differences in emphasis. The standard theory facilitates grammatical descriptions which are abstract …

The Completive And Potential Form Of Chichicapan Zapotec Verbs, Joseph P. Benton

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

From the introduction: "The phonological changes associated with the potential and completive aspects in Zapotecan languages have been traditionally analyzed suppletively (Butler 1980, Pickett 1960). In this paper I examine suppletive and nonsuppletive analyses of the potential and completive aspects of Chichicapan Zapotec, hereafter ChZ. I show that a nonsuppletive analysis of the facts of ChZ is more insightful than a suppletive one."

Noun Phrase Components In Southeastern Tepehuan, Elizabeth R. Willett

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

From the introduction: "My purpose in this study is to explore ways in which speakers of Southeastern Tepehuan talk about persons, places and things, the semantic notions generally associated with nouns. Although in English we are accustomed to expressing such ideas as quantity, quality, orientation, or possession of an item with a noun phrase, we cannot assume that in other languages semantic categories will always correspond to the expected syntactic categories as we know them in English. For instance, in Southeastern Tepehuan adjectival ideas are always expressed as predicates. On the other hand, some surface dependent clauses which at first …

The Utilization Of A Categorical System For Early Pragmatic Behaviors, Sharon Gail Halldorson

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A Study Of The Effects Of Communication Apprehension On Students In Fundamentals Of Public Speaking, Cheryl Jean Viestenz

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English Interjections : A Definition And A Taxonomy, Olympia John Fotakis

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Long Ago And Far Away: Distancing In Young Children's Stories., Beth Colleen Anderson

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This study investigated the concept of distancing within the oral stories of 36 children, ages three to five. Distancing was conceptualized, in part, as young children's increasing capacity with age to incorporate fantasy material exceeding the boundaries of their direct experience and to achieve self-other differentiation within the discourse form of stories.The study focused on three research questions: (1) What strategies do young children use to achieve distancing within their oral stories? (2) Do these strategies vary with age? (3) Is the ability to achieve distancing related to other measures of language fluency? The author created a distancing rating scale …

Content Categories In Relation To The Size Of Language Samples, Cynthia Ann Walker

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Preschool Oral Language Performance Related To Academic Achievement In Second Grade, Jeanette Vancamp Halcrow

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An Investigation Of The Relationships Between Pure Tone And Impedance Audiometric Screening Results, Diane Quam Sander

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The Double Accusative In Koine Greek: A Syntactic Study, Terrell A. Malone

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This thesis presents an analysis of the double accusative in Koine Greek within the framework of relational grammar theory as developed by Perlmutter and Postal. Monostratal and multistratal grammars are compared. Various kinds of evidence, including flagging of predicate dependents case function, passivization, gapping, question-word movement, indefinite relativization and parallel structures are used to argue that multistratal grammar more adequately and concisely accounts for the syntactic behaviour of the double accusative nominals than does a monostratal grammar. It is proposed that indirect object advancement, oblique advancement, subject ascension, and a combination of causative union plus indirect object advancement all can …

Personality And Demographic Characteristics Of A Sample Of Recovering Alcoholics, Graham Hurlburt

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Problem: The primary purposes of this study was to measure locus of control, psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism among alcoholic subjects who were at three different stages of recovery from alcoholism. A second purpose of this study included determining the relationship of race, sex, age, marriage status, and other identification factors to locus of control, psychoticis®, extraversion, and neuroticism in each of the three groups of recovering alcoholics. Finally, it was the purpose of this study to determine if there were significant changes on scores on locus of control, psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism among alcoholics who had undergone a twenty one …