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Backward Control In Samoan, Vincent Homer

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

News About The No-Phrase Specificational Pseudoclefts In Malagasy, Laura Kalin

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Voice Determines Co-Argument Anaphora In W. Austronesian, Edward L. Keenan

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Two Types Of Anticausatives In Acehnese, Seongyeon Ko

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Voice, Agree And Locality In Paiwan, Chao-Lin Li

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

The Structure Of (Un)Ergatives, Diane Massam

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

On Downward-Entailing Existentials And Differential Object Marking In Palauan, Justin Nuger

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Bare Nouns, Incorporation, And Scope, Ileana Paul

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Another Look At No: Pseudo-Clefts And Temporal Clauses In Malagasy, Matt Pearson

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

The Tagalog Copula, Norvin Richards

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Radical Underspecification, General Number And Nominal Mapping In Indonesian, Yosuke Sato

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Direct Adjectival Modification In Javanese, Jozina Vander Klok

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Artificial Intelligence Based Personal Assistant For Handling Phone Calls, Manikandan Gopalakrishnan

Defensive Publications Series

When making calls to business entities, an individual often needs to navigate a menu of choices using the phone keypad until a desired option is found. If the desired choice requires speaking with a human, the individual may further need to wait on hold until someone is available to answer the call, thus wasting time. In the case of incoming calls, the number of the calling party may be unknown or blocked. Many such calls are from automated systems used for telemarketing. The techniques of this disclosure describe an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based personal assistant for handling incoming and outgoing …

The Heart Of A City: Detroit's Discourse, Achanté A. Allen

WRIT: Journal of First-Year Writing

This article is based on my personal experiences that I have observed and endured as a member of several discourse communities. This piece was mainly inspired by the place that I call home, Detroit, Michigan. The article should serve as a preview for the reader, of how the city (the heart) runs and operates as a result of the different discourse communities (the veins).

Teaching To Assess: An Evaluation Of Assessment Education For Secondary Teacher Candidates, Daniel M. Frederking

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the assessment instruction of a four-year undergraduate secondary education program and its alignment to the teaching standards and the summative teacher licensure assessment. Document analyses were conducted on the program’s syllabi as well as the assessment portions of the InTASC standards and the handbook of the edTPA. Results highlighted several areas of misalignment in the areas of categorical concurrence, depth of knowledge, and range of knowledge. Also of note, preservice teachers in different secondary subject areas are receiving different amounts of assessment instruction. Additionally, local edTPA data was examined to highlight areas of strength and weakness. Students …

Human Rights And Cultural Heritage: Protecting Museum Professionals During Armed Conflict, Jennifer Lee Reilly

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The purpose of this thesis is to address the issue of protecting museum professionals in areas of armed conflict. Recent conflicts have increased public awareness of cultural heritage sites in danger. Organizations such as UNESCO condemned the destruction of Palmyra and the desecration of the Mosul Museum. Despite the public outrage, there is little consideration given to professionals who work at these institutions and who care for the collections. Examining the historical accounts of museum professionals in conflict zones provides the context to the suggestions made in this text. Possible solutions and methods proposed throughout the text include the expansion …

Treating Resistance As Data In Qualitative Interviews, Dimitra Kizlari, Kalliopi Fouseki

The Qualitative Report

Scientific interviews provide a useful resource for qualitative researchers studying people’s perceptions on contemporary phenomena. This article contributes to the large body of literature on qualitative interviews by investigating a rather common but under-reported pattern in interviews, that of resistance. Resistance is a form of power that the participant maintains and can exercise at any moment. The phenomenon knows various expressions from a refusal on the side of the participant to sign the consent form to question dodging or embellished accounts. Two case studies are used to underpin the basic argument that resistance in interviews may be a valuable finding …

#Metoo: Personal Accounts Of Sexual Violence On Facebook Analyzing Individual Stories To Reveal Themes About Gender, Power, And Intersectional Factors, Lauren Depoint

Theses

This study examines the types of narratives constructed about experiences with sexual violence shared in Facebook posts using the hashtag #MeToo. Feminist and intersectional theories were used to contextualize a textual analysis of 61 public posts to explore how individuals were presenting their experiences for a mass audience online in the absence of traditional gatekeepers. Most of the posts featured graphic details, strong emotion, and patterns of internalized misogyny. Stories shared revealed troubling power dynamics involving disability, race, and gender. Intersectional groups are underrepresented in online spaces, indicating a problematic absence of these individuals within online movements like #MeToo that …

Perceptions Of Non-Americans Towards American Tv Series, Thaarika Charumathy Seetharaman

Theses

Television drama is one of the most entertaining genre of the media industry, and it serves as a socialization platform (Greenberg, 1982). American TV series have gained audience and fans from all around the world which opens up the scope for examining the effects of American media on the secondary audience. Drawing on the framework of cultivation theory, this study examined the effect of American TV series on non-American population. The results suggested that the cultivation effects are dependent on age and gender of the respondents, in connection with the genre of the series influencing the audience’s framing of the …

Barriers Preventing Healthcare Providers From Utilizing Linguistic Services For Limited English Proficiency Patients, Olena Bohachyk

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Abstract

Background: Limited English proficiency (LEP) population continues to grow; and healthcare providers now face communication challenges when providing care to LEP patients. Multiple studies show that a rate of interpretive assistance provided remains low and patients with LEP tend to have higher risk for adverse effects when compared to English speakers.

Objectives: The purpose of this integrative literature review was to identify the existing barriers contributing to underutilization of interpretive services among medical personnel when providing care to LEP patients, and provide potential suggestions to improve the linguistic competence.

Method: An integrative literature review was conducted using the following …

Public Perceptions Of Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes: An Integrative Literature Review, Stacy Gates

Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium

Background: Carbonated soft drinks are one of the largest sources of calories in the American diet, providing over 5% of caloric intake, and no significant nutritional value. Governments across the globe have begun to implement sugar sweetened beverage taxes in an attempt to stem the proliferation of these health issues, but such policies remain unpopular and implementation difficult.

Objectives: The purpose of this integrative literature review was to examine the public perception of sugar sweetened beverage taxes and to determine what strategies are needed to successfully implement similar policies in the future.

Method: An integrative literature review …

Phonological Structures And Expressiveness: The Role Of Iconicity In 'The Emergence Of The Marked', Adrian Clynes

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Against Long Movement In Madurese, William D. Davies

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Vowel Shifting And Cloning In Motlav: Historical Explanation Vs. Formal Description, Alexandre François

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Transitivity Alternations In Rotuman, Madelyn Kissock

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Fixed Segmentism, Markedness And Faithfulness: Nominalising Reduplication In Chamorro, Thomas B. Klein, Meta Y. Harris

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

An Interpretation Of The Voice Affix /I-/ In Tagalog, Anja Latrouite, Ralf Naumann

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Niuean Nominalization, Diane Massam

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Valence Changing Clitics And Incorporated Prepositions In Teop, Ulrike Mosel, Jessika Reinig

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Emotion Predicates And Grammatical Functions In Indonesian, Simon Musgrave

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.