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Fórmulas De Tratamiento En Ocaña, Colombia, Liceth Bohorquez Leon

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The paradigm of forms of address has been a recurrent topic of study from a sociolinguistic perspective. Voseo, tuteo and ustedeo are the forms of address used in the Hispanic world. Voseo expreses confidence and familiarity, while tuteo same as voseo, denotes confidence and familiarity. Finally, ustedeo has a connotation of formality, respect and distance. This thesis aims to examine how forms of address are used in Ocaña, Colombia, and the relationship between their use and the social factors that affect the choice of pronoun. To achieve this aim, a sociolinguistic survey was applied to 88 participants. The …

My Experience As A Phonetics Research Assistant, Damaris Holmes

SASAH 4th Year Capstone and Other Projects: Publications

When my exchange was shortened due to COVID-19, I had the opportunity to undertake a part-time research assistant position with Dr. Jeff Tennant in the French and Linguistics departments at Western. Our project studied the rhythm and intonation of the speech of Franco-Ontarians. This paper serves as a description and reflection of this experiential learning opportunity. Specifically, it explores the challenges of operating within a multi-year project timeline as well as dealing with imposter syndrome as a student new to true research.

This project examined the spoken language of bilingual Ontarians to determine if the classically distinct rhythm patterns of …

Visual Perception In Hearing Sign Language Users, Jessica M. Lammert

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Deaf signers exhibit superior visual perception compared to hearing controls in several domains, including the perception of faces and peripheral motion. These visual enhancements are thought to compensate for an absence of auditory input. However, it is also possible that they reflect experience using a visual-manual language, where signers must process complex moving hand signs and facial cues simultaneously. Thus, the current study sought to isolate the effects of sign language experience by examining how visual perception is altered as a function of American Sign Language (ASL) proficiency in hearing individuals. Hearing signers completed an online test of ASL proficiency …

Variable Subject Pronoun Expression In The Spanish Of Londombia: A Study Of Language Contact In Canada, Angelica Hernandez Constantin

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

According to the extended projection principle, subjects are mandatory in tensed clauses (Chomsky 1982). Languages, however, vary in their use of null and overt subjects. Languages like English, which are [-null subject] languages, require overt subjects (1a), rendering phrases with null subjects ungrammatical (1b), while languages like Spanish, which are [+ null subject] languages, allow for both overt (2a) and null subjects (2b).

(1) a. She wants bread.

b. *Ø wants bread.

(2) a. Ella quiere pan.

b. Ø quiere pan.

“(She) wants bread”

In Spanish the variable use of Spanish subject personal pronouns (SPPs) has been studied in monolingual …

Music Sounds Better With You, M Gillian Carrabre

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is a catalyst for creative expression, from the solo dance form known as shuffling, to “Flow Arts” activities (forms of self-expression inducing a flow state) like poi, hula hooping, orbiting, and gloving. Gloving is a subcultural practice and artform that couples LED lights with dexterous finger movements. It is a method of expression for dance music enthusiasts (also known as ravers) and has become an important component of the EDM scene, particularly over the past decade. Glovers engage in “secondary” performances to live music (DJs) using complex techniques such as symbolism, word painting, and what the …

Incidental Acquisition Of Multiword Expressions Through Audiovisual Input: The Role Of Repetition And Typographic Enhancement, Elvenna Majuddin, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Frank Boers

Education Publications

There has been limited research on the efficacy of captioned second language (L2) television in facilitating the incidental acquisition of multiword expressions (MWEs). The present study aims to fill this gap. Additionally, this study examined the role of typographic enhancement and repetition. One-hundred and twenty-two L2 learners were assigned to one of six conditions which differed in terms of caption condition (no captions, normal captions, enhanced captions) and the number of times they watched the same video (once, twice). The participants took a cued MWE form recall test before watching the video, and immediately and two weeks after watching it. …

01. Table Of Contents And Preface, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

04. Object Shift And Agent Extraction In Mandar, Dan Brodkin

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

05. Verbal Vp-Modifiers In Samoan Verb Serialization, Jens Hopperdietzel

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

06. Bare Passive Agent Hierarchy, Hiroki Nomoto

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

07. Processing Syntactic Ergativity In Tongan Relative Clauses, Hajime Ono, Koichi Otaki, Manami Sato, ‘Ana Heti Veikune, Peseti Vea, Yuko Otsuka, Masatoshi Koizumi

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

08. Tucking-In And Pivot-Third Word Order, Mathieu Paillé

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

09. Recipes In Malagasy And Other Languages, Ileana Paul, Diane Massam

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

10. (A)Symmetries In Tagalog Relative Clause Processing, Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara, Matthew Wagers

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

11. Tongan Vos: Coordination Plus Ellipsis?, Maria Polinsky, Eric Potsdam

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

03. Ni, Pni, And Quasi Pni: Tagalog And The Typology Of Incorporation, Michael Barrie, Moonhyun Sung

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

02. The Origins Of Nominative Case In Austronesian, Edith Aldridge

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.