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Nominal Possession In Daakaka: Transitivizing Vs. Linking, Kilu Von Prince
Nominal Possession In Daakaka: Transitivizing Vs. Linking, Kilu Von Prince
Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)
No abstract provided.
Weighing Up Exercises On Phrasal Verbs: Retrieval Versus Trial-And-Error Practices, Brian Strong, Frank Boers
Weighing Up Exercises On Phrasal Verbs: Retrieval Versus Trial-And-Error Practices, Brian Strong, Frank Boers
Education Publications
EFL textbooks and internet resources exhibit various formats and implementations of exercises on phrasal verbs. The experimental study reported here examines whether some of these might be more effective than others. EFL learners at a university in Japan were randomly assigned to four treatment groups. Two groups were presented first with phrasal verbs and their meaning before they were prompted to retrieve the particles from memory. The difference between these two retrieval groups was that one group studied and then retrieved items one at a time, while the other group studied and retrieved them in sets. The two other groups …
Language Imperialism In Post-Colonial Ghana: Linguistic Recovery And Change, Rikki Bergen
Language Imperialism In Post-Colonial Ghana: Linguistic Recovery And Change, Rikki Bergen
SASAH 4th Year Capstone and Other Projects: Publications
In this paper, Bergen explores the affects of colonialism on language rights in Ghana. With approximately eighty languages spoken, Ghana is a linguistically rich and diverse country with a colonially-imposed language as the only state-sponsored language. By examining the linguistic, political, economic, educational, and cultural context of what was once the Gold Coast the paper discusses the factors that keep a system of linguistic imperialism in place. Secondary research is used to provide an introduction to the genealogical language families present in post-colonial Ghana and the customs and laws that govern their usage. By identifying the nuances that keep this …
The Effects Of Linguistic Labels On Object Categorization And Perception, Xuan Pan
The Effects Of Linguistic Labels On Object Categorization And Perception, Xuan Pan
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
The linguistic relativity hypothesis (Whorf, 1956) claims that speakers of different languages perceive and conceptualize the world differently. Language-thought interaction is likely to be more complex in bilinguals because they have two languages that could influence their cognitive and perceptual processes.Lupyan’s (2012) Label-feedback Hypothesis proposes a mechanism underpinning language-thought interactions, arguingthat linguistic labels affect our conceptual and perceptual representations through top-down feedback.This thesis tested the Label-feedback Hypothesis by capitalizing on an interesting feature of Chinese. In English, most nouns do not provide linguistic clues to their categories (an exception issunflower), whereas in Chinese, some nouns provide explicit category …
Enhanced Explicit Vocabulary Learning Compared To Implicit Grammar Learning In Adults, Leah Brainin, Marc Joanisse
Enhanced Explicit Vocabulary Learning Compared To Implicit Grammar Learning In Adults, Leah Brainin, Marc Joanisse
Western Research Forum
Compared to young children, the language learning process is much more difficult and less successful in adulthood. Little is known about how non-linguistic cognitive processes contribute to these age-dependent differences. We argue that language learning involves both explicit declarative memory processes to learn vocabulary and implicit procedural memory processes to learn grammatical patterns. In this preliminary study, we aimed to quantify the relative contribution of declarative versus procedural learning in adults via an artificial language learning task. Participants ages 18 to 29 heard novel singular and plural words associated with images of common objects. The grammar of the language consisted …
La Syntaxe Et L'Interprétation Des Questions Coordonnées, Mikalai Kliashchuk
La Syntaxe Et L'Interprétation Des Questions Coordonnées, Mikalai Kliashchuk
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Cette thèse traite des questions coordonnées dans les langues slaves et en roumain. Nous considérons trois approches proposées dans la littérature (approche monopropositionnelle, approche à écluse, approche mixte à structures multidominantes) et concluons que l’analyse en termes des structures multidominantes de Citko et Gračanin-Yuksek (2013) est la meilleure à rendre compte des interrogatives coordonnées à travers les langues. Nous montrons que la seule structure nécessaire pour dériver les interrogatives coordonnées dans toutes les langues slaves et en roumain est la structure multidominante de partage en gros. Cette structure est disponible uniquement dans les langues au mouvement-QU multiple. Elle implique un …
The Statistics Of Subtypes: A Proposed Study Investigating Statistical Learning Across Subtypes Of Dyslexia, Ashlee N. Quinn-Hogan
The Statistics Of Subtypes: A Proposed Study Investigating Statistical Learning Across Subtypes Of Dyslexia, Ashlee N. Quinn-Hogan
2019 Undergraduate Awards
Current research regarding dyslexia and its subtypes is inconsistent. There are discrepancies in the literature surrounding the causes and manifestations of dyslexia. Furthermore, there is very little research concerning the role of statistical learning in differentiating between subtypes of dyslexia. The purpose of the proposed study is to quantify the differences in statistical learning ability across three subtypes of dyslexia (i.e., phonological dyslexia, surface dyslexia, and deep dyslexia). It is predicted that participants with a dyslexia diagnosis of any subtype will be worse at using statistics to find word boundaries than control participants. Additionally, it is hypothesized that participants with …
Representing Opacity In Kinyarwanda Coronal Harmony, Abigail Edwards
Representing Opacity In Kinyarwanda Coronal Harmony, Abigail Edwards
2019 Undergraduate Awards
As of 2017, only four of the world’s languages are known to present opacity effects in coronal harmony: Sanskrit, Slovenian, Imdlawn Tashlhiyt and the Bantu language Kinyarwanda which is the focus of this paper (Hansson, to appear). In Kinyarwanda, coronal harmony is triggered by the retroflex fricatives [ʂ] [ʐ] and targets the alveolar fricatives [s] and [z]. The process operates regressively and is blocked by coronal stops [t] [d], palatal consonants [ɲ] [j] and the alveolar affricate [ts]. The harmony is obligatory in adjacent syllables but optional across non-adjacent syllables. The rarity and complexity of this phenomenon presents challenges to …
Acoustic Characteristics Used To Differentiate Speech From Song And Individual Factors That Impact Their Effectiveness, Xin Qi
2019 Undergraduate Awards
There are many acoustic differences between speech and song, such as frequency range, average fundamental frequency, pitch stability, and rhythmic regularity. Previous studies have shown that musical and linguistic knowledge are recruited differently, but no studies have addressed what specific acoustic features people use to differentiate between speech and song. Our study is designed to determine what acoustic characteristics are used to distinguish speech from song, and to elucidate whether individual factors, such as musical training and tonal language experience, have an effect on these characteristics. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to rank 15 acoustic characteristics according to their …
Differential Responses To Constraints On Naming Agency Among Indigenous Peoples And Immigrants In Canada, Karen E. Pennesi
Differential Responses To Constraints On Naming Agency Among Indigenous Peoples And Immigrants In Canada, Karen E. Pennesi
Anthropology Publications
This article illuminates the social structures and relations that shape agency for members of two marginalized groups in Canada and examines how individuals respond differently to constraints on their power to name themselves and their children. Constraints on spelling, structure and choice of name are framed according to the particular positions of indigenous peoples and immigrants in relation to European settler society as either ‘original inhabitants’ or ‘recent arrivals’. These historically unequal power relations are manifest in intertwined ideologies of language, identity and nation, evident in ethnographic interviews, media reports and online commentary. Differential responses include resistance, endurance and assimilation.