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A Note On Development Syntax, Juan Uriagereka Aug 2020

A Note On Development Syntax, Juan Uriagereka

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


Children's Interpretation Of Sentences Containing Every, Mari Takahashi Aug 2020

Children's Interpretation Of Sentences Containing Every, Mari Takahashi

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


Quantifier Spreading In The Acquisition Of Every, Bill Philip, Mari Takahashi Aug 2020

Quantifier Spreading In The Acquisition Of Every, Bill Philip, Mari Takahashi

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


Quantifier Spreading: Pilot Study Of Preschooler's "Every", Bill Philip, Sabina Aurelio Aug 2020

Quantifier Spreading: Pilot Study Of Preschooler's "Every", Bill Philip, Sabina Aurelio

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


The Emergence Of Bound Variable Structures, Thomas Roeper, Jill De Villiers Aug 2020

The Emergence Of Bound Variable Structures, Thomas Roeper, Jill De Villiers

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


The Acquisition Of Echo Questions, Mari Takahashi Aug 2020

The Acquisition Of Echo Questions, Mari Takahashi

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


Children Answer Echo Questions How?, Thomas L. Maxfield Aug 2020

Children Answer Echo Questions How?, Thomas L. Maxfield

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


How A Marked Parameter Is Chosen: Adverbs And Do-Insertion In The Ip Of Child Grammar, Thomas Roeper Aug 2020

How A Marked Parameter Is Chosen: Adverbs And Do-Insertion In The Ip Of Child Grammar, Thomas Roeper

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


Why Questions?, Jill De Villiers Aug 2020

Why Questions?, Jill De Villiers

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


Inversion And Early Wh Questions, Bernadette Plunkett Aug 2020

Inversion And Early Wh Questions, Bernadette Plunkett

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


What Do Children Know Without Learning?, Thomas L. Maxfield, Dana Mcdaniel Aug 2020

What Do Children Know Without Learning?, Thomas L. Maxfield, Dana Mcdaniel

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


The Acquisition Of Wh-Movement In Caribbean Spanish, Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux Aug 2020

The Acquisition Of Wh-Movement In Caribbean Spanish, Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


The Acquisition Of Wh-Movement In German And French, Jurgen Weissenborn, Thomas Roeper, Jill De Villiers Aug 2020

The Acquisition Of Wh-Movement In German And French, Jurgen Weissenborn, Thomas Roeper, Jill De Villiers

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


Inversion In The Embedded Clause, Meike Weverink Aug 2020

Inversion In The Embedded Clause, Meike Weverink

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Acquisition Of Wh-Movement, Jill De Villiers, Thomas Roeper Aug 2020

Introduction: Acquisition Of Wh-Movement, Jill De Villiers, Thomas Roeper

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Thomas L. Maxfield, Bernadette Plunkett Aug 2020

Front Matter, Thomas L. Maxfield, Bernadette Plunkett

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.


Preferences In Learning "Hiragana": A Comparative Study Between Mobile Apps And Paper Worksheets, Michiko Nakada Jul 2020

Preferences In Learning "Hiragana": A Comparative Study Between Mobile Apps And Paper Worksheets, Michiko Nakada

Masters Theses

In 2020, technology is generally accepted, and we can see many people using their digital devices such as smartphones everywhere. It is easy to see how dependent we are on technology, anytime and anywhere. Mobile apps are one of the time-effective tools for our daily lives. College students in the United States are always busy with their classes and assignments, and for them, apps are not only for having fun but are also convenient, reliable, and essential supporting tools for their academic and daily lives.

This paper examines the students’ preferences in learning the Japanese writing system “Hiragana” with mobile …


The Production And Perception Of Subject Focus Prosody In L2 Spanish, Covadonga Sanchez Mar 2020

The Production And Perception Of Subject Focus Prosody In L2 Spanish, Covadonga Sanchez

Doctoral Dissertations

New information can be introduced in discourse through different strategies, including syntactic and prosodic ones. This project provides an account of the syntactic and intonational strategies used for focus-marking in Peninsular Spanish, Mainstream American English and L2 Spanish using parallel experimental designs and a unitary method of analysis within the Autosegmental-Metrical framework for the study of intonation. It provides a comprehensive description of specific phonological categories and their phonetic implementation not only in monolingual speech, but also as they develop in the L2 grammar of Spanish learners with different experiences with the target language, following the premises of the L2 …