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Effectiveness Of Screening Children Identified As Being At Risk For Handicapping Conditions, Angela I. Roehm

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An Inquiry Into Aestheticism And Its Influence Evident In Selected Plays Of Oscar Wilde, Michael Barrett Childs

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Highly Intelligible Voice Synthesis, Bradley V. Briercliffe

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Samuel Clemens : The Decline And Fall Of The American Dream, Frank Mccahill

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The Effects Of Subject Status, Setting, And Discourse Partner On The Frequency And Success Of Initiation Of Interaction In Preschool Children, Kathryn J. Jenniges

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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place : Speech Act Analysis, Li Huo

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A Pragmatic Analysis Of Emily Dickinson's Dare You See A Soul At The White Heat?, Maureen Scott Maixner

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A Hermeneutic Of Sacred Texts: Historicism, Revisionism, Positivism, And The Bible And Book Of Mormon, Alan Goff

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As methods by which texts are to be understood, positivism and historicism have a long tradition and continue to exert wide influence in all academic disciplines. Other approaches to textual concerns have recently emerged to challenge the dominance of these two approaches. Foremost among these new approaches are hermeneutics and deconstruction. Both of the latter approaches recognize that interpretation is inescapable. The latter challenges even the possibility of determinate meaning. A theoretical discussion of historicism and positivism uncovers questionable and troublesome difficulties. Hermeneutics in its conservative or radical variations overcomes the difficulties of interpretation that positivism and historicism can't explain. …

The Effects Of Adult Familiarity On Speech Revisions Of Young Children, Lori Kreidlkamp-Nelson

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The Effects Of Prose Passage Organization On Comprehension Of Aphasic And Nonaphasic Listeners, Therese Abrahamson

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An Examination Of The Relationship Between Information Content And Readership In Agricultural Advertising, Nathan J. Huso

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The relationship between information content and Starch readership scores in The Farmer magazine from 1979 through 1985 was investigated. The information content of the agricultural advertisements was determined through content analysis using criteria developed to assess the amount of information that contributes to a rational buying decision. The results indicated that 99.4 percent of the advertisements contained information. There was a decrease in the average number of information cues per advertisement over time. There were no significant positive correlations between the information content and the readership score over time for any of the agricultural product categories studied. There were several …

Aging, Cognitive Abilities, And Word Frequency As Factors Affecting The Speed Of Lexical Access, Robert A. Laidlaw

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The present study evaluated the impact of age and several individual difference measures on lexical access. Additionally, eight different levels of frequency were evaluated for the stimulus words. These frequency levels were derived from the frequency of usage of these words in common reading materials. The response measured was latency of reading words out loud as they appeared on a screen. The results indicated no difference between older and younger adults on measures of anxiety, depression, or overall health. The older adults scored higher on a measure of vocabulary skills, while the younger adults scored higher on tasks involving abstract …

Phonological Processes And Syllable Structure In Tainae, Terry Bruce Carlson

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The aim of this thesis is to present the phonological processes generating surface forms from underlying segments in Tainae, a Non-Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea.

All phonetically occurring segments in the language are examined in varying environments, e.g., in word-initial position, word-medial position, and word-final position. Chapter Two, Consonants in Tainae, concentrates on the consonants on the language, separating them into classes such as bilabial stops, alveolar stops, velar stops, fricatives, etc. Within each of these classes the various consonants which appear on the surface are compared with one another in scope of distribution and regarding which possible phonological …

Tabaru Phonology And Morphology, Edward A. Kotynski

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This thesis presents an analysis of the phonology and an overview of the morphology of the Tabaru language. The phonology is analyzed in light of recent theory and the merits of metrical, CV and lexical phonology are discussed as they relate to some inadequacies of earlier generative theory.

The Use Of Humor By Linguistically-Impaired Children And Peers During School Activities, Carole Ilene Landby

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Balk's Music-Theatre Performance Theory : Application To The Non-Musical Play, Miss Julie, John W. Hill

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Post-Secondary Education And The Hearing Impaired : Demographic Variables, Beverley Margaret Geddes

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Individual Differences In Prose Memory Retrieval, Maureen J. Anderson

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The Effects Of Familiarity On The Repair Strategies Of Children In Response To Requests For Clarification From An Adult, Jennifer J. Langan

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Changes In The Selective Listening Skills Of Children With Central Auditory Processing Disorders, Joan Mary Meger Jay

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The Test Of English As A Foreign Language Sample Test As A Measure Of Adolescent Language Ability, Paul Gardiner Osborn

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Relative performance on the Test of English as a Foreign Language Sample Test (TOEFL-ST) was explored in sixty native English speaking high school students. Subjects also were administered the Fullerton Language Test for Adolescents and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Revised. The TOEFL-ST was not difficult for this population, indicating that TOEFL tests taken by foreign speaking college students probably assess a level of native English competency well below the high school level. The three tests, including subtests, appear to measure a wide array of subdomains of language competency. The data do not support the conclusion that any of these …

The Effect Of Man On The Landscape And The Effect Of Land On The Manscape: Or Contingent Plans For Knowing A Mountain, Taylor Scott Baldwin

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In my artistic practice, I emphasize personal and pan-cultural anxieties regarding civilization and the environment as an impetus for work in sculpture, video, and drawing. By locating marginal microcosmic subject matter that tellingly exhibits macrocosmic global dread, I seek to capture and distill our overwhelming eco-socio-political anxiety into a portrait of a society at a point in its history when the specter of nameless impending disaster weighs pressingly on the collective psyche. This thesis is supplementary to my work of sculpture in the Graduate School of the Arts Thesis Exhibition at the Anderson Gallery opening on April 27th, 2007. The …

The Effects Of Two Teaching Strategies On The Recall Of Blissymbols, Lea Ann Oberembt-Peschong

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Language Recovery In A Child After Coma Resulting From Closed Head Injury, Marianne Cassels

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Pronouns Of Address In The Book Of Mormon, Lyle L. Fletcher

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The first section of this thesis is a diachronic examination of second person pronouns in English with special focus on variations in usage such as pronominal shifting between thou (and related forms) and ye (and related forms), as well as an examination of the second person pronoun usage in the English Bible (especially the King James Version) with a similar focus. From the thirteenth century on variations in usage have been common.

The second section is a synchronic examination of second person pronouns as used by Joseph Smith and some of his contemporaries, followed by an analysis of these pronouns …

The Effects Of Caffeine On The Recall Of Prose Passages, Scott V. Sternhagen

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It has been demonstrated that an individual's level of arousal has a significant effect on their ability to perform a specific tasks. This arousal may be due to stable trait characteristics such as those measured by the impulsivity subscale of the Eysenck Introversion Extroversion Scale or transient state effects like those caused by consumption of stimulants such as caffeine. Manipulation of trait and state arousal have been shown to cause significant effects on an individual's ability to perform various cognitive tasks such as to remember word lists or prose passages.

In this experiment, 79 male subjects listened to three expository …

A Study Of Achievement Among Economically Disadvantaged Fifth-Grade Students In Grand Forks, North Dakota, Patricia L. Vogt

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Observing The Growth Of Fourth Graders In Math Problem-Solving Ability And Interest, Leslie Wagner

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An Educational Study Of The Problems And Possible Solutions Of Efl Teaching And Learning In The People's Republic Of China, Li Huo

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College Students' Use Of Genderlect, Laurie Patricia Light

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Genderlect is linguistic performance characteristic of gender groups (Kramer, 1974). The present study was designed to investigate genderlect in the form of noun usage among college students. The specific purpose of this study was to determine if there were noun choosing differences between male and female subjects in referencing the concepts “adult male" and "adult female"; and, if present, did the sex of the subjects and/or sex role of the subjects effect the differences.

This purpose was accomplished by collecting, a written language sample from each of 45 male and 50 female subjects. The subjects were shown a series of …