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The Relationship Between Linguistic Complexity And The Development Of Social Speech, Lisa Catherine Light

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Preschool Teachers' Use Of Language For Distancing (Communication), Margaret Bergan Nardi

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The ability to cognitively separate oneself from the immediate behavioral environment has been identified in the literature as the concept of distancing. It has been suggested that the child's distancing abilities are a reflection of his early experiences with the distancing language of significant others in his environment. Several curricula have been developed that focus on strategies that teachers can employ for facilitating distancing in children. Very little is reported in the literature, however, about the distancing language of teachers in practice. This study investigates the distancing language of six preschool teachers in their talk to preschool age children.The data …

Causal Interpretation Level And Perceptions Of The Counseling Process (Attributions, Therapy)., John Llewellyn Kube

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Two forms of causal interpretation, one tentative and one declarative, were compared in this study with each other and with a noninterpretative response to explore their effects on the counseling process. The responses reflect differing levels of causal interpretation, defined by the degree of directiveness or level of counselor input. To examine the effect different counselors might have, each response was presented by a similar male or female counselor.In a randomized group posttest only design, 220 student subjects in two samples viewed a videotaped counseling vignette and completed a rating instrument. Assessed were perceptions of the counselors' attractiveness, expertness, and …

The Central Control Of Directional Fractionation: Lateralized Attentional Processes Indexed By Heart Rate., Anthony Stephen Papciak

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The peripheral electrophysiological manifestation of different attentional systems was investigated by recording heart rate. Two groups were differentiated using the personality variable locus of control. Subjects were given a perceptual task, Navon figures, which had figures that differed on global and analytical features. A warning stimulus (x) cued the subjects to the beginning of each trial. Following this task subjects were trained on viewing line drawings in either a global or an analytic style. The global style required the subject to find the gist or overall theme of the picture and the analytic style required finding three objects in the …

English Intensive Reading Lessons For Chinese College Students, Jie Wang

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Nonverbal Communication Of Congenitally Blind Adolescents At The North Dakota School For The Blind, Sheila R. Davidson

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A Comparison Of Spanish Language Proficiency As Related To Location And Length Of Stay In A Foreign Language Environment, Karen Minnette Dawson Mckenna

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This study examined the relationship of Spanish language proficiency as related to location and length of stay in a foreign language environment. The participants took a Spanish diagnostic test that measures Spanish proficiency through grammar principles and then answered a questionnaire concerning their language learning experiences, location and length of stay in a Spanish language environment.
It was found that Spanish language proficiency increased with longer lengths of stay in the Spanish language environment. No conclusive data were found to support the hypothesis that those in one Spanish-speaking environment attain a higher language proficiency than those in another Spanish-speaking area. …

Argumentation In Romans 1-11, Mary Margaret Walker

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This study addresses some of the problems of the Book of Romans in Koine Greek as a source text for a translation, particularly into non-Indo-European languages which do not share common cultural, grammatical or rhetorical conventions with the original audience for which Romans was written. A basic question broached was, "What is argumentation - as a discourse genre, as an act, as a pattern of grammatical reflexes?"

The discourse grammar model of Dr. R. E. Longacre was the main point of departure. Important secondary sources were the work of Teun A. van Dijk on macrostructure; the semantic structure analysis method …

Discourse Analysis Of A Michif Narrative, Breck S. Speers

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This thesis offers a transcription and translation of a Michif narrative. Michif is a hybrid language consisting of French noun phrases and Cree verb structures. After the translation of the text, a structural analysis of the text is given based on textual analysis techniques proposed by Roger Schank and Robert Abelson (1977) and Ellen Prince (1979).

The Michif narrative was elicited from a resident of San Clara, Manitoba, Canada, and was transcribed with the help of native Michif speakers involved with the Summer Institute of Linguistics at the University of North Dakota. The concept of the script, a stereotypic chain …

Values And Academic Achievement Among Rural Indian High School Students In North Dakota, Janet Lee Clark

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Literature relating to American Indian formal education reveals that throughout much of history, the majority culture has stressed assimilation in the educational process. Indian students have been encouraged to give up their values and embrace the values of majority culture members. However, for the majority of Indian people, the goals of assimilation have not been realized. Indians have retained unique cultural values.

This study was designed to systematically investigate the role of differential values in the educational process of rural North Dakota Indian high school students. High school students and their teachers from seven schools were surveyed in group testing …

Perceptual Styles Of Left- And Right-Lookers, Joann C. Russell

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The left and right hemispheres have unique modes of processing data: the former verbal-analytic, the latter spatial-holistic. Dominant direction of lateral eye movement on answering reflective questions has been interpreted as indicating differential contralateral hemispheric activation and, by inference, predominant reliance on one or the other mode.

This study tested the hypothesis that neurological organization of the brain underlies and unifies individual perceptual, cognitive, and personality style differences. Right-lookers were expected to be more obsessive-compulsive and to obtain a predicted pattern of test scores congruent with left hemispheric characteristics, while left-lookers were expected to be more hysteroid and to obtain …

Politics In Nigeria: The Role Of The Igbos 1960-1980, P.J. Afamefuna Ifedi

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Hemispheric Laterality And Cognitive Style, Christine J. Kuchler

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The purpose of the present study was to determine the nature and degree of relationship between cerebral "hemispheric style" and several traditional dimensions of "cognitive style." A large battery of laterality preference, cognitive style, verbal and nonverbal ability, and selected additional tests was administered to 97 (52 female, 45 male) right-handed undergraduate volunteers, with subsequent analysis of relationships among the measures by simple correlation, factor analysis, and multiple regression methods.

Laterality measures included the Zenhausern, Verbalizer-Visualizer Questionnaire, and a lateral eye movement observation measure. Data analyses utilized individual laterality test scores as well as a composite "laterality index." Eleven cognitive …

An Investigation Of Semantic Invariance In Human Speech, David Burton Tarr

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The present investigation addresses the hypothesis of phonetic symbolism in human speech. As a psycholinguistic and epistemological concept, the phonetic symbol is understood to be a structural a priori in sound which correlates with the semantic properties of physiognomic, muscular tension. An extension of this hypothesis is the assumption that phonemes without conventional meaning in a language can approximate semantic equivalence of ordinary words under appropriate experimental conditions.

This dissertation explores the psychodynamic parameters of phonetic symbol access. Specifically, it makes use of a variety of clinical and experimental tools to tap instinctual processes which could conceivably contribute to phonetic …

Verging Gardens, Jeffrey Ruggles

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Webster's gives as an archaic meaning for the verb design "to indicate with a distinctive mark, sign, or name." For the kind of photograph which is essentially taken, not made, the idea of indicating is more appropriate than concepts of building up from a blank sheet of paper. The correct exclamation when this photographer thinks a success has been completed is "Eureka!": "I have found it!"

This paper identifies the topographic landscape as a type of photographic practice, examines the characteristics of the topographic landscape, and traces its development. The concepts of "density" and "the garden" in the topographic landscape …

Two Modes Of Eliciting Phonological Processes : Delayed Word Imitation And Spontaneous Speech, Theresa P. Ramsey

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Type-Token Ratios And Language Sample Sizes For Normally-Developing And Language-Impaired Children, Karen Marie Sefton

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Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials Within Aphasic And Non-Aphasic Populations, Catherine Ann Swenson

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The Oral Language Sentence Imitation Screening Test (Olsist) As A Predictor Of Syntactic Performance, Chris A. Korgel

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Body, Blood, And Soul : The Roman Catholic Church In Contemporary American Indian Literature, Joseph Michael Delorme

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Child Performance Of Phonological Processes Elicited With Imitation And Object Stimuli, Lisa Katherine Coley-Donohue

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Two Modes Of Eliciting Phonological Processes : Spontaneous Naming And Spontaneous Speech, Marilyn J. Goertel

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Stylometry And Wordprints: A Book Of Mormon Reevaluation, Brian Curtis Roberts

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This thesis is a project which investigates the science of stylometry and wordprints; the analysis of writing style characteristics. The focus is placed on reexamining a wordprint study done by Wayne Larsen and Alvin Rencher wherein the Book of Mormon was analyzed against texts by those who are purported to have written it. The difference in this study from the first was that new wordprint definitions were developed using a junction grammar program created by Eldon Lytle, the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon was employed as the base text, the phrase "it came to pass" was deleted and …

Samoan For Missionaries, Scott C. Dunn

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This thesis is a textbook designed to assist LDS missionaries studying the Samoan language both in a two-month intensive language-learning school (the Missionary Training Center) and in individual study in the Samoan Islands. The thesis is prefaced with a rationale for and explanation of the Missionary Training Center language program and the design and purposes of the text itself.

The textbook contains fifty Samoan language lessons, divided into ten units of five lessons each. At the end of each unit is a review module, or test. Except for two overview lessons (designed to introduce grammatical terms and pronunciation), each of …

Bilingualism And English Language Abilities In Manitoba Cree School Children, Madeline Ford

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An Assessment Of The Perception Of Phonetic Ambiguities In 4 And 5 Year Olds, Elizabeth A. Carter

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The question of how humans clearly perceive speech, which is anything but clear when analyzed acoustically, has prompted researchers to look at the phenomenon of phonetic ambiguity. In adults, phonetic ambiguity perception has been shown to be aided by the listener using expectations due to the saliency (i.e., familiarity of the ambiguous word or phrase) and to pre-exposure (i.e., priming) to the items prior to testing. Priming makes the subject aware of the alternative (i.e., unfamiliar or rare) member of a phonetic ambiguity pair. In the present study, thirty-two 4 and 5 year olds were exposed to a tape containing …

Transitional Objects, Hypnotic Phenomena And Personality Characteristics, Keith N. Cohen

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In the current investigation aspects of experience and personality in adult life were objectively assessed in relation to the childhood use of transitional objects. Experiences identified as characteristic of the "intermediate area" included those of deep and intense involvement. Hypnotic susceptibility, "absorption" phenomena, and personal interests and pursuits were measured as experiences representative of this realm. The study also sought to establish further correlative links between early use of transitional objects and adult personality traits and characteristics. Information regarding the early attachment to special inanimate objects was obtained through self- and parental-reports to questionnaires designed to survey parameters of object …

Differences In Experiences: A Study Of Handicapped And Nonhandicapped Young Children In A Mainstreamed Preschool, Linda L. Reiten

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Purpose. The first purpose of this study was to determine the differences in classroom experiences of four mainstreamed preschool children, two handicapped and two nonhandicapped. To determine these differences, three questions were asked: (1) Do teachers and peers interact differently with handicapped than with nonhandicapped children? (2) Is the use of the physical space in the classroom different for handicapped than for nonhandicapped? (3) What are some of the qualitative differences in the classroom experiences of the handicapped and nonhandicapped children?

The second purpose of this study was to draw out the themes that constituted the differences in experiences. The …

A Dialect Analysis Of Hymns And Poems To The Virgin And Christ And Other Religious Poems From Ms. Lambeth 853, Steven A. Weiler

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This thesis is a dialect analysis of a select group of hymns and poems to the Virgin and Christ and other religious poems from MS Lambeth 853. It thoroughly examines the phonology of the vowels in words of Old English origin found in the MS and records all these words except for most of the unstressed conjunctions. It restricts examina tion of consonants to those phenomena which are considered conclusive in respect to dialect. It has both a compiled list of all pronoun forms according to person, number, case, and gender and an examination of such forms that are important …

Use Of Indirect Services By Speech/Language Pathologists In Manitoba Public Schools, Deborah Elaine Partridge

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Speech/language pathologists in Manitoba public schools have expressed concern about their large caseloads and their frustrations in dealing with time restrictions. Indirect services have been suggested as a means of coping with these concerns. Research has shown that indirect services such as home programs and use of paraprofessionals, volunteers, and classroom and resource teachers have proven to be especially effective.

The purpose of this study was to compile information from speech/language pathologists in Manitoba public schools concerning use of indirect services and to use this information to compare service models used by subjects working in urban and rural areas of …