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Motion Events In Seri: Applying Talmy's Typologies, April E. Sachs

Theses and Dissertations

Leonard Talmy's typologies of motion hypothesize that in a language's depiction of Motion events, the semantic components of the event will find characteristic expression in consistent morphosyntactic structures. In the motion-actuating typology, the main verb in an event of Motion will characteristically conflate Motion with either the Path, Figure, or Manner of Motion. In the motion-framing typology, the Path component will characteristically appear in either the verb or the satellite to the verb. These typologies, proposed in their most cited forms in Talmy (1985) and Talmy (1991), have been applied over the years to dozens of languages, with varying degrees …

Berne, Indiana Swiss German: Lessons Learned From A Small-Scale Documentation Project, Gretta Yoder Owen

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents a case study of a small-scale language documentation project carried out in Berne, Indiana. The goal of this project was to capture, through audio recording, samples of the Swiss German language that could be presented to the Berne community and preserved for future use. As much as possible, this project was carried out according to best practices for language documentation, so that the data will be accessible to the academic community for further research after there are no more living speakers of the Berne, Indiana Swiss dialect.

The history of the Swiss Mennonites who settled the Berne, …

George Orwell's "Depression" Novels: Laying Bare The Emotional Cost Of The Great Depression In Britain, Sonja Hathaway

Theses and Dissertations

The economic hardships that many people are facing in this the first decade of the twenty-first century have led politicians, historians, economists, and others to re-examine the 1930s in an attempt to understand their own time. The decade of the Great Depression was one of severe worldwide economic crisis and has been well documented, especially in Britain. Records compiled during the period by historians, statisticians, and social investigators have led to studies on the economic, political, and social conditions of the time. People are not, however, only physical, economic, and social beings. The challenge in studying the interwar period in …

Word Order Typology In Modern South Arabian Languages: A Study Based On A Corpus Of Analyzed Texts, David A. Cross Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis I present a typological analysis of the Modern South Arabian Languages. Typological research is often based on a six-way typology of dominant word order based on clauses containing nominal subjects, objects and verbs. However, this clause type is extremely rare in this language group, making typological analysis based on a six-way typology problematic.

Dryer's Four-way typology of dominant word order is applied to the Modern South Arabian Languages and they are shown to be VS&VO. Greenberg's universals which refer to dominant word order are then reformulated in terms of the Four-way typology. These reformulated universals are shown …

A Phonological Description Of "Pet Talk" In Arara, Isaac Costa De Souza

Theses and Dissertations

The Arara people of Para, Brazil, as a whole, are remnants or survivors of some larger Cariban groups who descended from the headwaters of the upper Xingu to the mid and low areas of this river by the beginning of the nineteenth century. Now they live in three different villages: Maia, Cachoeira Seca and Laranjal.

The present thesis aims to describe thirteen different ludlings or "play languages" that elderly Arara people from Laranjal know and sometimes use in talking to pets. Play languages are linguistic forms that are purposely manipulated at some level. The strategies which the Arara people use …

Assessing The Need For Community College Baccalaureate Degree Programs In Mississippi, Johannah Bell Williams

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This study involved assessing the professional and personal opinions of Mississippi community college students, faculty and administrators regarding the need for community college baccalaureate degree programs in Mississippi. The goal of this study was to determine if students, faculty and administrators at Mississippi community colleges believed that the implementation of baccalaureate degree programs at their respective colleges would be beneficial to the college and to the students. Furthermore, this study sought to determine if the opinions of said participants regarding the implementation of baccalaureate degree programs were affected by certain factors. Students, faculty and administrators from each of the 15 …

An Analysis Of Pastor Sunhee Gwark’S Sermons By Using Hermeneutic Methods Of Practical Theology For Improving Sermon Paradigm, Jinhyu Park

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this project is to analyze the sermons of Sunhee Gwark, the former senior pastor of So-Mang church, into hermeneutic methods of practical theology for improving sermon paradigm. The relationship between the world of Scripture and the world of audience was investigated and the world of audience was valued equally with the world of Scripture in sermon. In order to analyze Gwark's sermons, the standards of evaluating sermon were provided. An improved sermon paradigm was suggested and the author wants this study to contribute to refreshing sermons to be balanced between the world of Scripture and that of …

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

Excerpt: "As the 2010 summer term winds to a close, CLASS is preparing for a an exciting 2010-2011 academic year. Recently, we launched our new website that will be more interactive and useful for our visitors. From the homepage of our new site, visitors can stay up-to-date on CLASS news and events, and they can stay connected by following our CLASS Facebook page."

Preparing Music Pre-Service Teachers To Enhance Language Arts Reading Skills In The Elementary Music Classroom: A Degree Program And Course Content Analysis, Suzanne Natallia Hall

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this study was to examine how NASM accredited music education degree programs from public and private universities throughout the United States address reading literacy (language arts) integration within the elementary music classroom.Accordingly, the following research questions guided the study: (1) What, if any, reading course is currently included in the undergraduate music education degree program?(2) What are the attitudes and perceptions of music education professors towards music andreading integration within the music teacher preparation programs?(3) What “philosophical lens” is used to develop a reading integrated curriculum for pre-service music teachers and how is it interpreted in practice?(4) …

Are Pictures Always Worth A Thousand Words? Interactions Between Reader, Text, And Diagrams In Multimodal Comprehension, Adam M. Renner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study investigates the influence of diagrams and spatial layout on interactive effects of text cohesion, domain knowledge, and reading skill on the comprehension of multimodal science text. College undergraduates read either a low or high-cohesion text about cell mitosis that was or was not augmented with diagrams, and then answered text-based and bridging-inference comprehension questions. Results showed overall effects of diagrams and cohesion, but these effects largely depended on an integrated configuration as well as on ability level. Low-knowledge and less-skilled readers benefited from cohesion when the text did not contain diagrams, and only benefited from diagrams when presented …

The Perception Of Natural, Cell Phone, And Computer-Synthesized Speech During The Performance Of Simultaneous Visual-Motor Tasks, Nirmal Kumar Srinivasan

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This study investigated the influence of top-down and bottom-up information on speech perception in complex listening environments. Specifically, the effects of listening to different types of processed speech were examined on intelligibility and on simultaneous visual-motor performance. The goal was to extend the generalizability of results in speech perception to environments outside of the laboratory. The effect of bottom-up information was evaluated with natural, cell phone and synthetic speech. The effect of simultaneous tasks was evaluated with concurrent visual-motor and memory tasks. Earlier works on the perception of speech during simultaneous visual-motor tasks have shown inconsistent results (Choi, 2004; Strayer …

The Effects Of Cognitive Disequilibrium On Student Question Generation While Interacting With Autotutor, Jeremiah R. Sullins

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to test the effects of cognitive disequilibrium on student question generation while interacting with an intelligent tutoring system. Students were placed in a state of cognitive disequilibrium while they interacted with AutoTutor on topics of computer literacy. The students were tutored on three topics in computer literacy: hardware, operating system, and the internet. During the course of the study a confederate was present to answer any questions that the participant may have had. Additional analyses examined any potential influence the confederates had on student question asking. Lastly, the study explored the relationship between emotions …

Infant Vocal Development In A Dynamic Communication System: Vocal Exploration Activities In Various Social Settings, Kyounghwa Kwon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Pre-linguistic vocal productions are the manifestations of a unique capacity ofhuman infants.The uniqueness is characterized by voluntaryvocal play and systematic repetition which serveno fixed functions.Such pre-linguistic infant vocalizations are the product of complex processes of internal vocal exploration activities and external social interactions. However,very few studies have incorporated both aspects to understand the nature of early vocal development. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate the relationship between vocal category development and exploration activities in varying social communication circumstances, using a developmentally appropriate coding scheme for infant vocalization.The vocalizations of 7 infants at three different ages (approximately 4, 7, and …

The Community College Role In Preparing Students For Writing In The Workplace, Sandra Eason Webb

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Since its inception, a major role of the American community college has been to prepare its students for success in the workplace. A critical workplace skill that has been overlooked is that of writing in the workplace. If the American community college is to prepare its students with all of the skills needed for workplace success, then it must restructure its writing programs to address workplace writing. This thesis begins with a historical overview of the community college to establish its role in preparing America's workforce.Workplace writing is then defined and is compared and contrasted with the academic writing that …

Say "Amen" For The Sistahs: The Rhetoric Of Womanist Preaching, Kimberly Patrice Johnson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

AbstractThis exploratory study of womanist preaching seeks an answer to the question: how does womanist preaching attempt to transform/adapt the tenets of womanist thought to make it rhetorically viable in the church?And what is gained and lost in this? Through a close reading of various texts, I am able to discover: 1) what rhetorical strategies are employed to advance the womanist position, 2) how sermons function to raise the audience’s critical awareness, 3) how the sermons lead to the transformation of the audience, and 4) how to differentiate between the various facets of womanist preaching. This project identifies five women …

Monolingual And Bilingual Spanish-English Children's Phonological Production On Rapid Automatized Naming Tasks, Adriana Maddalena Pennino

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Monolingual English and bilingual Spanish-English kindergarteners participated in rapid automatized naming (RAN) tasks with results quantified in terms of weighted phonological accuracy and accentedness. Fifty-six typically developing monolingual English children and 41 typically developing bilingual children were included in this study. Single-word speech samples were obtained to examine (a) total articulation time, (b) phonological accuracy, and (c) phonological transfer between L1 and L2. Findings indicated that similar phonological accuracy occurred in monolinguals and bilinguals in English, phonological transfer occurred between L1 and L2 in English and Spanish for bilinguals (resulting in accentedness in both languages), faster RAN was associated with …

Problem Representation And Mathematical Problem Solving Of Students Of Varying Math Ability, Jennifer Lee Krawec

Open Access Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine differences in math problem solving among students with learning disabilities (LD), low-achieving (LA) students, and average-achieving (AA) students. The primary interest was to analyze the problem representation processes students use to translate and integrate problem information as they solve math word problems. Problem representation processes were operationalized as (a) paraphrasing the problem and (b) visually representing the problem. Paraphrasing accuracy (i.e., paraphrasing relevant information, paraphrasing irrelevant linguistic information, and paraphrasing irrelevant numerical information), visual representation accuracy (i.e., visual representation of relevant information, visual representation of irrelevant linguistic information, and visual representation of …

The Power Within: The Influence Of Spirituality On African American Female Adult Learners, Nakeisha Latoy Owens

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This interpretive, qualitative study investigated the influence of spirituality in the lives six African American female adult learners. The following questions guided the research study:1) What role has spirituality played in the pursuit of educational goals of African American female adult learners? and 2)What influence has spirituality had on the development of these adult learners?An examination of the influence of spirituality in the areas of motivation, barriers, and adult development among college students framed the scholarly review of existing literature. The data collection methods included interviews, timeline and song lyric elicitations, and field notes.The interviews were audio recorded and transcribed.An …

Integrated Framework For Interaction And Annotation Of Multimodal Data, Afroza Ahmed

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Ahmed, Afroza. MS. The University of Memphis. August 2010. Integrated Framework for Interaction and Annotation of Multimodal Data. Major Professor: Mohammed Yeasin, Ph.D. This thesis aims to develop an integrated framework and intuitive user-interface to interact, annotate, and analyze multimodal data (i.e., video, image, audio, and text data). The proposed framework has three layers: (i) interaction, (ii) annotation, and (iii) analysis or modeling. These three layers are seamlessly wrapped together using an user-friendly interface designed based on proven principles from the industry practices. The key objective is to facilitate the interaction with multimodal data at various levels of granularities. In …

A Path Analysis Model Examining The Relationships Among Race, Gender, Poverty Concentration, Mathematics Achievement And Educational Values Of Students And Their Peers, Angelica T. James

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of the current study was to explore the effects of race, gender, school poverty concentration and students’ and peers’ educational values on mathematics achievement, controlling for prior mathematics achievement and highest level of mathematics taken. Data were selected from the Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS:2002). The sample for this analysis consisted of 1,200 native English-speaking students from urban and suburban public schools. Ordinary least squares regression analyses were used to determine the effects in the model. Results revealed that African American students, females and students who attended schools with a higher concentration of poverty had higher educational values, but …

Architecture + Behavior: The Built Environment, Natural Landscapes And At-Risk Youth, Jennifer Lynn Barker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

There exists an interesting parallel between the power and the limits of architecture and its relationship to the human experience. This thesis proposes the question of how architecture can affect behavior in light of both the poetic and the practical in regards to the built environment. By understanding the user, incorporating the mission and goals of the client, and striving to connect aspects of the built environment to the two, architecture can act as a powerful influencer on behavior. These ideas, along with research (in camp history, play theory, young adolescent development and learning, experiential learning, environment-behavior relationships, the natural …

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

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Efficiency Analysis Of Trans-Border Goods Traffic Along Nigeria-Niger Border : A Case Study Of Jibia Post Katsina State, Usaini Sani Adamu

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Measuring Port Performance Of Shanghai Yangshan Deep-Water Port By Using Dea Model With Ahp Restrain Cone, Wenjie Zhao

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Justifying Subversion: Why Nussbaum Got (The Better Interpretation Of) Butler Wrong, Ori J. Herstein

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

One of the most common critiques directed at deconstructive and poststructuralist theories is that they are amoral – rejecting the validity of the very idea of norms and moral principles as grounds for justifying or criticizing political action and social structures – and that in rejecting the validity of the distinction between what is just and what is unjust, they “collaborate with evil.” By now, an almost canonical example of this common critique is found in Martha Nussbaum’s highly critical essay on the work of Judith Butler, titled The Professor of Parody.3 Here, I focus on Nussbaum’s critique and on …

Counterterrorism Intelligence Analysis: Language As Threat, Vulnerability, And Risk, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the role of language in describing possible membership in or connection to al Qaeda.

Implementation Of Autotutor Lite, Lu Han

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) is a very efficient form of e-Learning, but most of the current existing ITSs usually require advanced computational resources and specialized client software installation. Thus, there is a need for an ITS that is accessible online and is less computationally demanding. The immediate objective of this thesis is to describe the implementation of an online tutoring system that requires fewer computational resources. This system is called AutoTutor Lite, which runs in a web browser. Another objective is to use the Learner’s Characteristics Curves (LCC) as the evaluation method in AutoTutor Lite. By utilizing the semantic …

Alumna Receives Fulbright Award, Jessica Hinterlong '11

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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