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Reflections On Elementary And Secondary Education: A Prelude To The 1980'S, Vito Perrone

Journal of Teaching and Learning

No abstract provided.

Symbolism In Debussy's Music, Kathryn June Lucas

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which Debussy was influenced by the Symbolist poets. In order to accomplish this objective, biographical details have been incorporated with the findings that Debussy entered the literary milieu early in his life and became directly involved with the new developments taking place in literature. The Symbolist aesthetic is explained first in terms of the unifying characteristics tying the movement together and then in terms of the specific techniques used by the poets to realize their ideals. A similar approach is used to analyze Debussy’s aesthetic; there is a discussion …

A Grammatical Sketch Of Berik, Peter N. Westrum

Theses and Dissertations

This paper is a grammatical sketch of the Berik language based on language data gathered while living with the Berik people in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The levels of the grammatical hierarchy described are words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. The tagmemic model has been used as the model for analysis

Words, isolatable units which cannot be further divided into "free" forms, are divided into classes which are distinguished from one another according to principles of affixation.

Phrases consist of at least one obligatory tagmeme with one or more marginal tagmemes whose fillers are typically words. Several different phrase types are identified. …

Coverage Of Women By The Forum: 1959-1979., Cathy Mosbrucker

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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The Use Of Interlace In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, Sherry L. Mattison

Theses and Dissertations

J.R.R. Tolkien employs a form of interlace in his work The Lord of the Rings that has roots in medieval French romances, Anglo-Saxon literature of the seventh and eighth centuries, and as far back as Ovid. The technique evolved in the medieval romances as a means of handling multiple action and multiple themes. The technique reappears after long absence in Tolkien's work, with emendations and improvements by Tolkien to fit his modern audience

Tolkien employs the technique in three major areas: the paralleling of story, character, and setting; the forewarning and foreshadowing; and what I have called the time-flash. This …

Sentence Components In Southeastern Tepehuan, Thomas L. Willett

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

From the introduction: "In a complement paper on the Southeastern Tepehuan clause structure (Willett, this volume), the semantic and surface types of basic predications were discussed. The present paper begins to explore the inter-clausal relations of minimal locutionary and illocutionary force. It surveys the semantic and syntactic sentence types with primary reference to grammatical relations.

"The semantic propositional structures, along with their modal parameters and other semantic prosodies are discussed in Section 1. Then the basic syntactic forms of sentences and their related grammatical elements are outlined in Section 2, along with a mapping of the set of semantic sentence …

The Antigone Constraint, David H. Tuggy

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

In this paper I will present a class of sentences that certain syntactic rules of English would be expected to produce, but which are ungrammatical. These sentences all involve the raising of a sentential NP and the subsequent application of some syntactic rule fo that sentential NP. To explain the ungrammaticality of these sentences, I propose a constraint called the Antigone Constraint, which prohibits two-storey rules from applying to clauses which have been raised.

Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 24 (1980)

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

No abstract provided.

A Study Of Moriah's Preverbal Communication Acts, Carolyn Denise Roth

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Notes On African Linguistics, Terri R. Scruggs

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

From the introduction, "This report is an overview of some of the common features of African languages."

¡Ethical Dative And Possessor Omission Sí, Possessor Ascension No!, David H. Tuggy

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

From the introduction: "There is a very common type of Spanish sentence which has the following properties: (i) One of the arguments of the verb is a noun phrase which consists of an article (almost always a definite article) and a noun. (ii) There is also a dative pronoun dependent on the verb, and (iii) the dative pronoun is understood as the possessor of the definite noun. [Examples follow]

"I will refer to sentences of this kind as PA-type sentences.

"It has been suggested that sentences like [those above] should be accounted for under the theory of Relational Grammar by …

Clause Types In Southeastern Tepehuan, Thomas L. Willett

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

From the introduction: "The clause in Southeastern Tepehuan (hereafter SE Tepehuan) consists of a predicate, its associated arguments, and other modifying elements. This paper seeks to show the various types of semantic and surface clauses and the relation between them.

"The semantic clause consists of various semantic components, both nuclear and peripheral, semantic prosodies, and certain presupposed information. What these elements are for SE Tepehuan and what is the resulting division of the semantic universe is shown in section 1. Section 2 details the constituent surface structure and neutral and "marked" orders of these constituents in relation to these semantic …

Memory For Political Prose Passages, Amalie Caroline Smith Callahan

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Shakespeare's Sonnets 29 And 30 : An Aspectual Analysis, Kathryn R. Urbonya

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Colville Indian Language Dictionary, James Benjamin Somday

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to attempt to begin the process of preservation of the languages spoken on and near the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington State. It was further hoped to stimulate others, native speakers especially, to record, either on tape or in writing, those aspects of the language still in their memories. This work is intended to be used to assist the younger tribal members in learning the languages spoken by their elders.The 'dictionary' is listed in alphabetized form for the Teaching & Learning-Colville section only. That is, the Colville words are not alphabetized in Colville (nor …

An Investigation Into The Criterion Validity Of The C:R:F And The Dial, Marlene Margaret Lewis

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of A Home Program On The Performance Of Basic Concepts By Two Preschool Children, Patricia J. Nedberg

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Reliability Study Of One-Minute Start-Stop Conversation Sampling On A Single Subject, Catherine W. Woidtke

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Coming Together : A Consideration Of The Form And Use Of Child Language, Anne Eileen Thorkelsson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Uncle Vanya By Anton Chekhov : A Translation, Duane Fish

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of The Criterion Validity Of Three Preschool Language Screening Tests, Karen Ann Balutis

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Intended Audience And Feedback On The Writings Of Middle Grade Pupils., Walter Coyte Prentice

Theses and Dissertations

The present study investigated the development of written communication skills of students in the middle elementary grades. Two aspects of communicative competence served as the focus: (1) the ability to modify writing to fit the needs of the intended audience, and (2) the ability to profit from reader feedback. In addition, the effect of the writing stimulus on students' performance was examined.Thirty-six students, 12 in each of grades 3, 5, and 7, served as subjects. The students were shown one of two stimulus drawings, either a simple line drawing of a tree, hill, house, and sun (the Scene Stimulus), or …

An Empirical Test Of Crites' Model Of Career Maturity., Ronald Keith Jewett

Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to examine empirically Crites' Model of Career Maturity. The rational structure of Crites' model was compared with a statistical structure derived from a hierarchical clustering of items from the Career Maturity Inventory. Other purposes of this study included the examination of differences in the cluster structures between ninth and twelfth grade students, the determination of relationships among vocational choice attitudes and vocational choice competencies, and the establishment of normative data for the Career Maturity Inventory with a ninth and a twelfth grade, Grand Forks, North Dakota, population.The research population consisted of 106 ninth …

Nembi Discourse Structure, Ruth A. Tipton

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis deals with the way paragraphs, sentences, and clauses are brought together in Nembi discourse to form a coherent unit. Insights into discourse structure and discourse analysis gained from Joseph Grimes, Robert E. Longacre, and Michael A. K. Halliday are applied in the study of Nembi narrative and procedural texts. The thesis is based on the analysis of fourteen texts: four procedural and ten narrative. Six of the narratives are ancestral legends, and four are based on recent events. The analysis has led to several conclusions about discourse in the Nembi language.

Discourse is organized into an introduction, a …

A Study Of Natural Language Phonetic Symbolism, David B. Tarr

Theses and Dissertations

The present investigation concerns itself with the phenomenon of natural language phonetic symbolism. Proponents of phonetic symbolism, or the hypothesis of phonetic universals, as it is sometimes called, claim that human speech sounds have inherent meaning apart from their learned association with referents in the world. Since phonetic symbolism had been used to explain both success in guessing the meanings of foreign words and also a consistent tendency to attribute particular meanings to selected nonlinguistic verbalizations, it was hypothesized that phonetic symbols were part of an underlying stratum of semantic invariance. Further, it was assumed that such phonetic/semantic symbols should …

The Learning Package As An Instructional Tool For Non-Certified Pre-Kindergarten Teaching Personnel, Daniel James Gartrell

Theses and Dissertations

The population of non-certified pre-kindergarten teachers in northern Minnesota have encountered problems in obtaining formal, on- campus teaching instruction. "Self Concept Development and the Teacher- Child Relationship" was one of many learning packages developed at Bemidji State University to assist the population. The dissertation was a response to two topics of inquiry about the population and the learning package: (A) What are typical pre-package responses by the population toward young children in respect to self concept development? (B) How effective is the learning package as an instructional tool intended to facilitate the internalization of principles relating to self concept development? …

On Why We Teach Writing, Alice G. Brand

Journal of Teaching and Learning

No abstract provided.

Relationship Of Selected Personal, Academic, And Interest Factors To Predictability Of First Year Bookkeeping/Accounting Achievement In North Dakota Public Secondary Schools, Leah Rose Pietron

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Descriptive Analysis Of Language And Cognition In Congenitally Blind Children Ages 3 Through 9, David Wm. Anderson

Theses and Dissertations

Purpose This study was designed as an investigation of the semantic and cognitive functioning of congenitally blind children within the age range of 3 through 9 years, to help fill the gap in the existing research concerning the early development of the visually handicapped.

Delays in cognitive development among school age congenitally blind children have been attributed to the limitations imposed by blindness on mobility and interaction with objects and events in the environment. It has been assumed that blind children must rely on less efficient sensory perception and discrimination processes resulting in a conceptualization of the world which may …

The History Of The Kings Of Britain From The Fall Of Troy To The Death Of Gogmagog: An Edition With A Grammar Of The Language And A Glossary, James Th. Simmons

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis consists of three main parts, a grammar of the language of The History of the Kings of Britain from the Fall of Troy to the Death of Gogmagog, and edition of The History, and a glossary to the vocabulary of the edition.

In the grammar the major points of accidence and syntax are taken up--verb classification and conjugation; declination of nouns and pronouns, and of adjectives; formation of adverbs; clause construction--and discussed synchronically and diachronically.

The edition is of fols. 8r col. 2-13v col. 1 of MS. Arundel XXII in the College of Arms, London, a prose version …