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Language Use In The Epena District Of Northern Congo, William L. Gardner

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This thesis, based on two language surveys conducted in 1988 and 1989, addresses the question “What language do you speak?” for the people of the district of Epena in the Likouala Region of the People’s Republic of the Congo. The goals of the study were to: 1) inventory all the languages and dialects spoken in the district; 2) clarify their relationships with each other and neighboring languages; 3) measure the degree of intelligibility between speakers of different language varieties, specifically among the Bomitaba people; 4) investigate in what situations the people use which languages; and 5) provide bases for making …

Distinctives Of Corongo Quechua: Historical And Synchronic Perspectives, Daniel J. Hintz

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This thesis presents the structure of Corongo Quechua from four distinct but complementary perspectives. One, it describes the segmental sound system both historically and synchronically. Two, it provides a substantial amount of data in the form of glossed texts in a variety of genres. Three, it provides a brief description of the morphological structure and a complete list of suffixes with examples. Four, it includes a brief glossary of commonly occurring roots.

The description of the sound system has a comparative focus, examining those aspects of the phonological structure that are distinct from other Quecha dialects. It specifically examines Corongo …

Exploring The Relationship Of Whole Language And Isolated Skills Instruction With Reading And Writing Skills Of Intermediate Remedial Readers, Marian C. Bryan

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Two instructional methods of teaching remedial reading in a Chapter I (Education Consolidation and Improvement Act) setting were compared. One group of 20 remedial reading students received a traditional or isolated skills (IS) approach to reading and a group of 20 remedial reading students with similar ability and achievement levels received a whole language (WL) approach to reading for 7 months. A comparable control (C) group was selected from Chapter I classes in two other schools. All groups spent from 30-45 minutes in a small group (5-8) Chapter I setting with computers and a variety of reading materials available.

Group …

The Conjunctive Novel: Form And Function, Joanne Ruth Gowey Desotelle

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The purpose of this paper is to identify the function of characters who recur in more than one text by the same author.

Chapter One reviews critical opinions regarding repeating characters. These range from Percy Lubbock who believes that the other lives of a character should be ignored or they will distort the truth of the individual novels, to Michel Butor who recognizes that repeating characters serve a unique function within the texts. The term “conjunctive” novel is coined to identify texts which are conjoined by repeating characters.

Applying Mikhail Bakhtin’s terminology, Chapter Two argues that conjunctive novels are double-voiced …

Repetition And Reading: Word Rhythms In Henry James And Margaret Atwood., Alice O'Toole Poehls

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This study develops a method of reading the novel which emphasizes single-word repetitions as they rhythmically occur in the artistic text. By analyzing these word rhythms, a reader can disrupt the habitual production of the novel based on the fictional events of the story and, instead, focus on the textual events of the artistic form.Chapter Two provides the vocabulary and the critical theory which informs the other chapters. The words of Roman Jakobson, Wolfgang Iser, Roland Barthes, and Fredric Jameson provide a base for discussion of the novel as an integral structure with an unlimited semantic potential. A three-step interpretive …

Seeing The Palm Trees Again, Jie Wang

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A translation, analysis, and commentary on Seeing the Palm Trees Again, a highly regarded novel in contemporary Chinese fiction by Chinese-American novelist Lihua Yu, are presented. The novel is about a trip home by a professor of Chinese who has lived in the United States for ten years. It depicts the attitude of common Chinese people toward sending their children to America. It also describes the life of Chinese students in the United States. In creating the character of Tianlei Moe, the author has said what many people in Tianlei's situation feel but are reluctant to express openly: the feeling …

Classroom Modifications For Learning Disabled Adolescents: The Effects Of Inservice And Follow-Up Consultation On Four Regular Classroom Teachers, Lynne Chalmers

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This study asked the question: What are the effects of an inservice on classroom modifications for secondary learning disabled students on the teaching practice of four highly able teachers? A secondary question asked was: To what extent are teachers‘ behavior and attitudes affected by follow-up consultation? The participants were four secondary regular classroom teachers representing four curricula areas (English, social studies, health, and biology). All four had been recognized as having the ability to work well with learning disabled students. The procedure used for the study was a form of naturalistic inquiry, specifically participant observation. All four teachers participated in …

Recent Changes In The Ethnobotany Of Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Shelly Katherene Kraft

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Gathering arid preserving wild fruits and vegetables for food and medicine, especially from the wooded bottomlands, was a traditional part of the Lakota culture. Plant use among the Lakota has been greatly reduced and in some cases, completely eliminated by the damming of the Missouri River by Oahe Dam. This dam, which forced the Lakota of Standing Rock Reservation to give up their homes in the bottomlands in violation of their treaty rights of 1868 had a considerable impact on the biogeography of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, in January I960, almost 200 Indian families were evacuated from their homes …

Individual Differences In Verbal And Spatial Memory: The Contribution Of Gender, Verbal Ability, Spatial Ability, And Sex-Role Orientation, Mary H. Sarafolean

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The present study examined the degree to which reported sex differences in verbal and spatial memory performance are due to confounds between the sexes on the individual difference factors of verbal ability, spatial ability, and sex-role orientation. Specifically, college age males and females were administered psychometric tests of verbal ability, spatial ability, and sex-role orientation. The contribution of each of these factors to predicting subjects' scores on verbal and spatial memory tasks was analyzed using regression analysis procedures.

Results indicated a male advantage on spatial ability tasks, however, no sex differences in verbal ability were found. Gender of subject was …

Gender Role Orientation In Same- And Cross-Gender Friendships, Mary Beth Scanlon

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The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between individuals' gender-role orientations and the strength and rewardingness of their friendships. The study was guided by a series of questions centered around the assumption that androgynous individuals exhibit greater behavioral flexibility from one situation to another. Androgynous individuals were expected to provide a broader range of interpersonal rewards, forming stronger and more rewarding friendships than gender-typed individuals. In addition, androgynous individuals were expected to respond equally favorably to both same- and cross-gender friends, making gender-role orientation a factor attenuating gender differences in friendship.

A total of 105 women and 101 …

Individual Differences In Children's Eyewitness Memory Skills, Kathryn M. Hammes

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The present study investigated the impact of individual differences on children's eyewitness memory skills. Preschool (mean age of 4 years 8 months) and elementary (mean age of 11 years and 3 months) aged school children played a 5 minute game of Simon Says with an unknown male confederate. The children's memories for the game and the man with whom they played the game were assessed on an objective questionnaire, free recall and photo recognition task. Both the free recall and the objective questionnaire were given immediately after the game and exactly one week later. Half of the subjects were exposed …

Comprehension And Aging: Pronoun Anaphor., Helen J. Kahn

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The issue of whether old and young adults differ in their ability to resolve pronoun anaphors was investigated. Controlling their own rate of presentation, subjects read stories ranging in length and selected the antecedants for sentences which contained referent nouns and properties that were consistent, inconsistent or neutral with respect to general knowledge. Older adults were less accurate than young adults in noun choice with consistency of information affecting the older adults more than the young adults. Older adults also took longer to read both the first sentence containing the referent information and the final pronoun anaphor sentences in the …

An Analysis Of Government And Binding Rules For Classical Greek : Analysis Of Selected Pronouns In Xenophon's Memorabilia, David W. Hird

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An Industrial Arts Construction Technology Instructional Unit On The Design Of Mall Space For Commercial Shopping Centers, Yao-Ming Chu

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Language Services Provided By Speech-Language Pathologists In North Dakota Schools, Leslie D. Pedrick

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An Analysis Of The Structure Of Kerouac's Visions Of Cody, Joel M. Braaten

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The Use Of Phonological Processes By Children With Cleft Palate, Jeanne A. Desilets

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The Creation And Validation Of A Visual/Gestural System Symbolizing Selected Phonological Patterns, Sonia A. Flake

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An Acoustical Analysis Of The Speech Of Children With Phonological Disorders, Lisa M. Bilous

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The Conjunctive Novel : Form And Function, Joanne Ruth Gowey Desotelle

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From Constructivism To Deconstructivism, Gladys Brenner

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This thesis deals with four major design movements, beginning with Constructivism, and ending with Deconstructivism, including two other movements, as intermediate links, that developed in the period between International - Swiss Design and Postmodernism. The purpose of this thesis is to explain in a visual time-line, the interrelationships of these movements while at the same time visually represent their concepts. Also it leads to an analysis and discussion of the role of Deconstructivism in graphic design.

Conversational Repair Strategies Of Preschool Children During Naturalistic Interactions, Richard J. Stott

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Within the area of pragmatics, the subject of children's repair strategies has been an issue of considerable research for many years. Most of this research has not addressed verbal and nonverbal repair strategy behaviors particularly among preschool children enrolled in an integrated preschool program. The purpose of the present study was to describe how preschool children enrolled in an integrated preschool program request clarification in naturalistic situations and how they use conversational repair strategies following a stacked sequence of requests for clarification by adults.

Naturalistic inquiry was used to establish an inventory of strategies used by handicapped and non-handicapped children …

Data Base Design For Research In Comparative Zapotec, Anita C. Bickford

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This thesis explores the nature and content of a comparative data base for the Zapotec languages of Mexico that may be produced. Many questions are discussed: how to sub-divide and list the Zapotec languages and dialects; what data format will be most accessible to researchers as well as to field workers with data to add; computer software considerations (designing computational tools); how to handle non-cognates with shared meanings, non-overlap of glosses (i.e., one Zapotec gloss covers several Spanish words, or vice versa), semantic shifts and secondary meanings, and other problems such as special characters, free variation, elisions, etc.; whether to …

The Michif Technique: Code-Switch Cue, Carol Starzer Wildeman

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The Michif technique is a method of language modification which encourages code-switching by introducing a third language as a cue. The method targets syntax modification and does not apply to phonetic modification.

The technique derives its name from the Michif Language which is the cue language used in the study. The learning of Michif is not a long-range goal of this study, but rather through the use of Michif code-switching can be fun and nonthreatening.

The Michif technique follows the bidialectical view which encourages the use of code-switching in formal environments and the use of the vernacular while in informal …

Relative Clauses In Koine Greek: A Transformational Approach, Martin M. Culy

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In this thesis I consider the unique set of facts presented by relative clauses in Koine Greek. I give a thorough overview of relativization in Koine including idiomatic usages of the relative pronoun. In particular, I examine the phenomena of internally-headed relative clauses, attraction and inverse attraction.

I give a basic overview of the Greek language, discussing both the historical context as well as the facts of Koine syntax and morphology that are pertinent to the understanding of this thesis.

I provide a basic typology of Koine relative clauses discussing relativization strategy, examples where a relative pronoun is used for …

Use Of Visual Phonics In The Remediation Of Children's Phonological Disorders, Diane E. Dacquay

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Investigations within the field of child phonology- have been concerned with the acquisition of a phonemic repertoire as well as the developmental rules for combining phonemes sequentially. Children acquire the adult phonological system by simplifing their productions through the application of phonological processes. Speech-language pathologists target phonological processes for remediation when they are atypical of children's developmental stage or when the processes are unusual in form.

A recently developed hand symbol system called Visual Phonics (1985) may enhance the remediation of phonological processes. Support for this proposition comes from studies which have incorporated, with some success, the use of manual …

A Study In The Use Of Writing And Self-Monitoring Strategies With Learning Disabled Eighth Graders, Solveig A. Bartz

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Learning disabled adolescents are expected to demonstrate more effective use of written expression as they cope with increased curricular demands at the secondary level. To compound the problem, repeated failures have helped develop strong negative affect toward school and the writing process.

Statement of the Problem ·-----·---·-----·-·----------This study was designed to teach writing and self-monitoring skills to learning disabled eighth graders. Time for practice was provided, and the effectiveness of the procedure was evaluated.

Methods and Procedures ----------·--------- Unlike other studies, this study did not compare the learning disabled with non-learning disabled; instead, using appropriate statistical technique, student performances over …

Basic Clause Structure In Veracruz Huastec, Peter G. Constable

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Huastec is a Mayan language spoken in east-central Mexico. It is considered important in Mayan studies since it alone represents a distinct branch within the Mayan family of languages; however, there is, in fact, relatively little published work on Huastec, especially on Huastec syntax. This thesis fills in some of this lacuna with a description of several aspects of Huastec clause structure.

A general overview of Huastec grammar is presented in chapter 2, followed by several chapters each of which focuses on a separate topic of Huastec clause structure. The analyses in these chapters are presented within the theoretical frameworks …

The Frequency Of Occurrence Of Phonemes In The Speech Of Aphasics, Rita M. Vis

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This study was designed to investigate the phoneme selection patterns in the spontaneous speech of Broca's and Wernicke's aphasics. The frequency distributions of phonemes for the aphasic subjects was compared to the normal distribution curve of English consonantal phonemes. Differences in the frequency of occurrence of phonemes subsequent to neurological impairment may be linked to the nature of the impairment. In addition, this study described and compared the occurrence of phonological processes in the single word responses of the subject groups. The frequency of phonemes and the occurrence of phonological processes were then analyzed jointly for possible trends.

Analysis of …

Verbal Memory Changes In Elderly Nursing Home Residents With Suspected Senile Dementia Of The Alzheimer's Type., Scott Mark Bodine

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Forty eight elderly subjects who were residents of nursing homes and retirement centers participated in the study which was designed to evaluate verbal memory functioning in presumed Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type (SDAT). Half of the subjects exhibited significant decline in memory as evidenced by raw scores of 50 or below on the Wechsler Memory Scale. Declines in memory were not attributable to depression, cerebrovascular accident, alcohol abuse or severe mental disorders. The demented group performed lower than the group with intact memory on a measure of verbal ability. The memory tasks employed were free recall of word lists, …