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Some Psycholinguistic Aspects Of Brôu Literacy Problems, Eugenia Johnston

Theses and Dissertations

Before literacy materials can be prepared for preliterate groups, the analyst must discover the native speaker's reactions (1) to the sounds of his language so that a psychophonemic orthography can be developed, and (2) to the structure of his language, so that teaching methods will build on these reactions and help the prospective reader learn more quickly and easily to read and write his language.

Problems include immediate constituents of vowel glides and consonant clusters, syllable stress, syllable division within words, punctuation signals, and tone designation. In the Brôu language the main problem was to ascertain whether Brôu intuitions would …

A Comparative Study Of Selected Personality Characteristics Of Students Who Cheat And Do Not Cheat In An Academic Situation, Walter G. Mcintire

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if there were significant personality differences between students who cheat in a given academic situation and students who do not cheat in the same situation. This was examined in terms of manifest needs, personality structure, and certain attitudes and values relative to the circumstances and setting in which the behavior occurred.

The sample studied consisted of 64 students, classified into 8 groups, from a class of 198 students enrolled in Psychology 213, Educational Psychology, at the University of North Dakota during the spring semester of the 1965--66 academic year.

The students were …

Feasibility And Cost Analysis Of Private Aircraft Transportation For The University Of North Dakota, John D. Odegard

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of private aircraft transportation for the University of North Dakota and analyze the costs involved.

Safety of private aircraft transportation is discussed with emphasis on the added safety of flying in North Dakota. This additional safety factor is attributed to the low terrain, numerous airports and suitable flying weather in North Dakota.

Economic justification is determined by comparing total operating costs, which include aircraft operating costs, depreciation and "value per man hour", to transportation costs incurred while traveling by commercial airlines or by University Motor Pool automobile. Value per man …

87 Faces Of The English Clause, Richard S. Pittman, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction, "Nguyen Dang Liem, in his "Contrastive Analysis of English and Vietnamese," Vol. 1 (Canberra, 1966), gives a very useful table (page 47) of 87 English clause types. This is a review and commentary on that chart, with two proposals: 1) that all of the types be derived from one sentence -- "They gave him the presidency" -- rather than from several, as in Liem's original formulation; and 2) that the relationships between the major types be described by means of a two-branched tree."

An Analysis By Levels, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

Hierarchical analysis of a short English text, illustrating levels of analysis from discourse down to word level in a grammatical hierarchy, and from utterance down to phoneme in a phonological hierarchy.

Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 11 (1967)

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

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Stratifications Reflected In Truck Bumper Slogans In Peru, Loraine I. Bridgeman

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

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Method For Writing Articles, Marjorie Davis

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

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Handling Lexical Translation Problems: A Set Of Procedures, Loraine I. Bridgeman

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "It is the purpose of this paper to outline a set of procedures for determining which of the generally accepted devices for introducing new concepts into receptor languages would most economically stimulate semantic change in any given situation. That is, the procedures are an attempt to enable a translator initiating work in a new language to predict with a certain degree of accuracy the device appropriate to a given situation and the normal semantic load assignable to it. Devices discussed are APPROXIMATION, including the use of related items, metaphors and similes; CREATION, including annalogical innovations of similes …

Shoshone Phonemes, Wesley L. Kosin

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

In 1970 a supplement to this article was published. The supplement can be accessed at commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers/vol14/iss1/8/

Transformational Paradigms Of Some Cocopa Sentence Types, Carole C. Nevers

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

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Some Cocopa Clause Batteries, Carole C. Nevers

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

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Plural Affixes To The Cocopa Verb, Tom Nevers

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

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Pronominal Affixes To The Cocopa Verb, Tom Nevers

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

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Kalam Verb Phrases, Lyle Scholtz

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

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A Phonological Reconstruction Of Proto Central North Bahnaric, Kenneth D. Smith

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

From the introduction: "Because of unresolved phonological problems in Sedang phonemics (Smith, 1967a) and the need to clarify them before literacy materials could be prepared, the author undertook a study of Sedang dialects (1967b, 1967c). Though the phonological problems were resolved in this latter study, other problems became evident in the relations between Kontum languages. The present study was undertaken in an attempt to understand more fully the relationships between these languages. The study also complements similar studies in other areas of Viet Nam; namely: Proto-East-Katuic (D. M. Thomas, 1967), Proto-Mnong (Blood, 1966); and Proto-Chamic, a Malayo-Polynesian language (Lee, 1966)."

A Note On Deep (Emic) Structure In Linguistics, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

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Basic Tenets Of Tagmemics, David D. Thomas

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

No abstract provided.