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The Language Vitality Of Nahuatl In Santiago Tlaxco, Mexico, Grace Gomashie Oct 2020

The Language Vitality Of Nahuatl In Santiago Tlaxco, Mexico, Grace Gomashie

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis assesses the language vitality of Nahuatl (also known as Mexicano) in Santiago Tlaxco, a rural bilingual community in the municipality of Chiconcuautla, located in Puebla, Mexico, in the face of the growing trend of language endangerment for many Indigenous languages. It explores the linguistic use and attitudes of community members, and how they contribute to language maintenance and language shift of Nahuatl. The main research questions are: a) what are the language use patterns of the community? and b) what are the prevailing language attitudes of this Nahuatl-speaking community towards its Indigenous language? Data on the language practices …


On Polysemy: A Philosophical, Psycholinguistic, And Computational Study, Jiangtian Li Aug 2020

On Polysemy: A Philosophical, Psycholinguistic, And Computational Study, Jiangtian Li

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Most words in natural languages are polysemous, that is they have related but different meanings in different contexts. These polysemous meanings (senses) are marked by their structuredness, flexibility, productivity, and regularity. Previous theories have focused on some of these features but not all of them together. Thus, I propose a new theory of polysemy, which has two components. First, word meaning is actively modulated by broad contexts in a continuous fashion. Second, clustering arises from contextual modulations of a word and is then entrenched in our long term memory to facilitate future production and processing. Hence, polysemous senses are entrenched …


What Moves, Why, And How: The Contribution Of Austronesian, Lisa Demena Travis, Diane Massam May 2020

What Moves, Why, And How: The Contribution Of Austronesian, Lisa Demena Travis, Diane Massam

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


Subjecthood And Unmarkedness In Niuean, Rebecca Tollan May 2020

Subjecthood And Unmarkedness In Niuean, Rebecca Tollan

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


V=Nya In Colloquial Malay, Mathieu Paillé May 2020

V=Nya In Colloquial Malay, Mathieu Paillé

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


Relative Clause Processing In Tongan: An Effect Of Syntactic Ergativity On The Object Preference, Hajime Ono, Koichi Otaki, Manami Sato, 'Ana Heti Veikun, Peseti Vea, Yuko Otsuka, Masatoshi Koizumi May 2020

Relative Clause Processing In Tongan: An Effect Of Syntactic Ergativity On The Object Preference, Hajime Ono, Koichi Otaki, Manami Sato, 'Ana Heti Veikun, Peseti Vea, Yuko Otsuka, Masatoshi Koizumi

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


The Prosodic Structure Of Pazeh, Benjamin Macaulay May 2020

The Prosodic Structure Of Pazeh, Benjamin Macaulay

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


Crossed-Control In Malay/Indonesian As Long-Distance Passivization, Paul Kroeger, Kristen Frazier May 2020

Crossed-Control In Malay/Indonesian As Long-Distance Passivization, Paul Kroeger, Kristen Frazier

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


Marking Accessible Information In Kimaragang, Paul Kroeger May 2020

Marking Accessible Information In Kimaragang, Paul Kroeger

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


On The Structure Of Tagalog Non-Dp Extraction, Henrison Hsieh May 2020

On The Structure Of Tagalog Non-Dp Extraction, Henrison Hsieh

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


Pseudo Noun Incorporation And Differential Object Marking: Object Licensing In Daakaka, Jens Hopperdietzel May 2020

Pseudo Noun Incorporation And Differential Object Marking: Object Licensing In Daakaka, Jens Hopperdietzel

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


Clause Truncation In South Sulawesi: Restructuring And Nominalization, Daniel Finer, Hasan Basri May 2020

Clause Truncation In South Sulawesi: Restructuring And Nominalization, Daniel Finer, Hasan Basri

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


The Typology Of Nominal Licensing In Austronesian Voice System Languages, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Theodore Levin, Coppe Van Urk May 2020

The Typology Of Nominal Licensing In Austronesian Voice System Languages, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, Theodore Levin, Coppe Van Urk

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


Roviana Fronting And The Relationship Between Syntactic And Morphological Ergativity, James N. Collins, Peter Schuelke May 2020

Roviana Fronting And The Relationship Between Syntactic And Morphological Ergativity, James N. Collins, Peter Schuelke

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


Raising-To-Object In Amis, Tingchun Chen May 2020

Raising-To-Object In Amis, Tingchun Chen

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


Tsou Exclamatives In Comparative Syntax, Henry Y. Chang May 2020

Tsou Exclamatives In Comparative Syntax, Henry Y. Chang

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


Optional Wh-Movement And Topicalization In Eastern Cham, Kenneth Baclawski Jr. May 2020

Optional Wh-Movement And Topicalization In Eastern Cham, Kenneth Baclawski Jr.

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Text Orientation On Form Effects With Chinese, Japanese And English Readers, Huilan Yang Apr 2020

The Impact Of Text Orientation On Form Effects With Chinese, Japanese And English Readers, Huilan Yang

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Does visuospatial orientation influence form priming effects in parallel ways in Chinese and English? Given the differences in how orthographic symbols are presented in Chinese versus English, one might expect to find some differences in early word recognition processes and, hence, in the nature of form priming effects. According to perceptual learning accounts, form priming effects (i.e., “form” priming effects) should be influenced by text orientation (Dehaene, Cohen, Sigman, & Vinckier, 2005; Grainger & Holcomb, 2009). In contrast, Witzel, Qiao, and Forster’s (2011) abstract letter unit account proposes that the mechanism responsible for such effect acts at a totally abstract …


Using Literal Underpinnings To Help Learners Remember Figurative Idioms: Does The Connection Need To Be Crystal-Clear?, Xinqing Wang, Frank Boers, Paul Warren Jan 2020

Using Literal Underpinnings To Help Learners Remember Figurative Idioms: Does The Connection Need To Be Crystal-Clear?, Xinqing Wang, Frank Boers, Paul Warren

Education Publications

No abstract provided.