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Retrieval Processes In Subject-Verb Agreement Computation, Nathaniel James Eversole
Retrieval Processes In Subject-Verb Agreement Computation, Nathaniel James Eversole
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
An important question in psycholinguistics is how subject-verb agreement is computed. One recent proposal is that memory retrieval processes play a key role in subject-verb agreement during sentence comprehension (Wagers et al., 2009). This model holds that when an agreeing verb (e.g., praise-s/-Ø; was/were) is encountered, a search is initiated through the memory representation of the sentence for a noun phrase (NP) with matching agreement features. When a controlling subject with matching features is available, the search ends successfully. However, in instances of a mismatch with this subject, the mechanism may (incorrectly) satisfy the agreement requirements of the verb with …
#Twitterdiscoursemarkers: A Corpora Based Study Of The Pragmatic Functions Of Hashtags, Darcey Nicole Browning
#Twitterdiscoursemarkers: A Corpora Based Study Of The Pragmatic Functions Of Hashtags, Darcey Nicole Browning
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
In this dissertation, I posit that hashtags can function as discourse markers, where space constraints of 140 characters on Twitter complicate their realization. Through the progression of research questions that shape each chapter, this dissertation analyzes how hashtags assist with felicitous communication to the intended audience of a tweet via four distinct corpora. The first function of discourse markers investigated in this dissertation involves delays; in emotional narratives, we would expect to find discourse markers acting as delays. Starting with a corpus of survivor interviews, I investigate which traditional discourse markers appear frequently when survivors talk about violence and which …
Empirical Examination Of Two Diagnostics Of Korean Unaccusativity, Jungae Lee Allman
Empirical Examination Of Two Diagnostics Of Korean Unaccusativity, Jungae Lee Allman
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH), intransitive verbs can be divided into two classes: unaccusative verbs (e.g. fall) and unergative verbs (e.g. dance) (Burzio 1986, Perlmutter 1978). Several approaches have been developed to distinguish between these two classes of verbs across languages. Sorace (2000) also developed the Split Intransitive Hierarchy (SIH) which proposes that there is a continuum of intransitive verbs ranging from unaccusative to unergative. Evidence for the Unaccusative Hypothesis has been developed from an empirical perspective. The aim of this dissertation is to complement the linguistic theory of the UH in Korean by examining two Korean unaccusative diagnostics …
Acoustic And Perceptual Correlates Of L2 Fluency: The Role Of Prolongations, Jessica Liane Rohr
Acoustic And Perceptual Correlates Of L2 Fluency: The Role Of Prolongations, Jessica Liane Rohr
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
This dissertation examines the contribution of lengthened segments/syllables or prolongations to the utterance and perceived fluency of native and non-native speech via three related studies. First, utterance fluency was measured using speech samples collected from a narrative task and along nine temporal variables of fluency (mean length of run, speech rate, mean length of syllable, mean length of silent pause, and rates of silent pause, filled pause, self-corrections, repetitions, and prolongations) (Skehan, 2007; Bosker, 2014). Results showed native speakers spoke significantly faster and with fewer disfluencies than their non-native counterparts. Prolongations were further investigated for frequency, duration, syntactic and phonological …
Plausibility And Structural Reanalysis, Ju-Young Lee
Plausibility And Structural Reanalysis, Ju-Young Lee
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
This study examines whether highly proficient comprehenders of English with different language learning profiles -- English native speakers (NSs, N=40), late (Korean-English) learners (LLs, N=32), and early bilinguals (EBs, N=28) -- make comparable use of plausibility information in the online processing of structurally complex sentences. Two sentence types involving temporarily ambiguous structural configurations, subordinate-clause (SC) ambiguity sentences and split/non-split phrasal verb (PV) constructions, were tested using self-paced reading. In SC ambiguity sentences, the pattern of reading times indicated that all three groups were able to use plausibility information to recover from initial structural misanalysis. NSs and EBs were also able …
Independent Sources Of Relative Clause Processing Difficulty: Evidence From Russian, Iya Khelm Price
Independent Sources Of Relative Clause Processing Difficulty: Evidence From Russian, Iya Khelm Price
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This study investigates the influence of syntactic, semantic, and frequency-of-occurrence information, as well as role of memory in the comprehension of complex sentences. This was done by examining the processing of Russian subject- and object-extracted relative clauses (SRCs and ORCs) that had the same word order configuration, but different noun phrase (NP) types (descriptive noun vs. pronoun) in the relative clause (RC). In both SRCs and ORCs, this word order was such that an NP argument preceded the RC verb, establishing equivalent linear distance between the modified noun and its integrating verb. A corpus analysis and offline acceptability rating experiment …
A Corpus Study Of Requests In Naturally Occurring Spoken American English: A Context Analysis Approach, Lynnelle Rhinier Brown
A Corpus Study Of Requests In Naturally Occurring Spoken American English: A Context Analysis Approach, Lynnelle Rhinier Brown
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Given the variety of ways that speakers of American English can make requests, relatively little has been discovered on why speakers choose the forms they do. Using data from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, this study investigates what requestive forms American speakers use as well as the contextual conditions that occur with these forms. The study identifies categories of requestive forms, including let statements, if statements, modal statements, need/want statements, imperatives and modal interrogatives and the contextual parameters that occur with them, including social distance, social power, contingency, entitlement, sequential positioning, among others. These forms demonstrate patterns …
Corpus Linguistics Of The Vernacular: “Catching A Cold” In Text Types That Complement Google Books Data, Laurel Smith Stvan
Corpus Linguistics Of The Vernacular: “Catching A Cold” In Text Types That Complement Google Books Data, Laurel Smith Stvan
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
Poster presented at the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium (TXDHC) on April 11, 2014
Stress Management: Corpus-Based Insights Into Vernacular Interpretations Of "Stress", Laurel Smith Stvan
Stress Management: Corpus-Based Insights Into Vernacular Interpretations Of "Stress", Laurel Smith Stvan
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
Examination of the term stress in naturally occurring vernacular prose provides evidence of three separate senses being conflated. A corpus analysis of 818 instances of stress from non-academic texts in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the Corpus of American Discourses on Health (CADOH) shows a negative prosody for stress, which is portrayed variously as a source outside the body, a physical symptom within the body and an emotional state. The data show that contemporary speakers intermingle the three senses, making more difficult a discussion between doctors and patients of ways to ‘reduce stress’, when stress might be …
Swahili Word Order Choices: Insights From Information Structure, Mohamed Yusuf Mwamzandi
Swahili Word Order Choices: Insights From Information Structure, Mohamed Yusuf Mwamzandi
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
Cross-linguistic pragmatic studies have shown non-canonical word order can often be explained if information structure is taken into consideration. This dissertation explores word order variation in Swahili (SVO, Bantu) adnominal demonstratives and reciprocal constructions under the auspices of information structure. I investigate how the notion of topic may explain word order variation in these two structures.The term `adnominal demonstrative' refers to demonstratives that co-occur with nouns such as huyu mtu `this person' as distinguished from pronominal demonstratives such as huyu `this'. The issue to be determined is what influences the demonstrative use in pre or postnominal position. The data consists …
Relative Clause Processing: Evidence From Russian, Iya Khelm Price, Jeffrey Witzel
Relative Clause Processing: Evidence From Russian, Iya Khelm Price, Jeffrey Witzel
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
Studies on relative clauses (RCs) in a number of languages have shown that object-extracted RCs (ORCs) are more difficult to process than subject-extracted RCs (SRCs). SRC-ORC processing asymmetry has been attributed to: • Structural expectations (Levy, 2008) • Memory-based integration effects (Gibson, 2000) • RC subject vs. object extraction difficulty differences (Lin & Bever, 2006) In many languages, word order differences between SRCs and ORCs make it difficult to test among these accounts. Russian allows SRCs and ORCs to have the same linear word order (with case-marking distinguishing between the RC types).
Long-Distance Attraction Effects In Subject-Verb Agreement Processing, Nathan Eversole, Jeffrey Witzel
Long-Distance Attraction Effects In Subject-Verb Agreement Processing, Nathan Eversole, Jeffrey Witzel
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
No abstract provided.
Truth Is, Sentence-Initial Shell Nouns Are Showing Up Bare, Laurel Smith Stvan
Truth Is, Sentence-Initial Shell Nouns Are Showing Up Bare, Laurel Smith Stvan
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
In one subtype of English shell noun construction, the noun serves as the subject in a pre-clausal unit, e.g., “The thing is.” Shell noun NPs have mainly been investigated synchronically, often as case studies of particular noun types, with the bare forms only ever briefly noted. Data from COCA and COHA was examined to collect the range of sentence-initial bare form shell nouns, to track any changes in their use occurring between 1810 and 2012. The findings suggest that, referentially, these abstract bare forms function differently than bare concrete count nouns, and distributionally, that bare shell forms are used increasingly …
Vernacular Explanations Of Causation In Lay Health Discourse, Laurel Smith Stvan
Vernacular Explanations Of Causation In Lay Health Discourse, Laurel Smith Stvan
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
Few linguistic works exam vernacular terms for health concepts rather than technical medical terms (cf. Rueda-Baclig & Florencio 2003). The prevalence of conversations on food, sleep, exercise, and illness – and the ordinariness of the words – leads to aspects of lexical misinterpretation remaining understudied. Lay terms with multiple senses are studied here to determine effects on misunderstanding of causality in health discussions.
The Locus And Nature Of The Object-Extracted Relative Clause Penalty, Jeffrey Witzel, Kenneth Forster
The Locus And Nature Of The Object-Extracted Relative Clause Penalty, Jeffrey Witzel, Kenneth Forster
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
No abstract provided.
Politeness Devices In The Tuvan Language, Vitaly Voinov
Politeness Devices In The Tuvan Language, Vitaly Voinov
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
Whereas a few core areas of the Tuvan language (such as phonology and morphology) have been fairly well described by linguists, pragmasemantic topics in the language, including politeness, have until now not been probed deeply. Using insights from theories of linguistic politeness proposed by Brown & Levinson (1978, 1987) and by their numerous critics (e.g., Ide 1989; Nwoye 1992; Watts 2003; Lakoff & Ide 2005; LPRG 2011), in this dissertation I investigate the morphosyntactic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic aspects of some of the primary verbal means that Tuvans use in conversation to express politeness to each other. The language material is …
The Structure Of Jarai Clauses And Noun Phrases, Joshua Martin Jensen
The Structure Of Jarai Clauses And Noun Phrases, Joshua Martin Jensen
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
This dissertation provides a syntactic account for the Jarai noun phrase and for the three regions of the Jarai clause: the operator domain, the inflectional domain, and the theta domain. Within the noun phrase, I argue that demonstrative-final word order involves phrasal movement of the demonstrative's complement into Spec,D, where it identifies null definite D. Jarai classifiers, rather than being heads in the functional spine of the DP, are shown to form a constituent with numerals, and this classifier--numeral phrase merges as the specifier of a number (plurality) head. In the operator domain, three head positions can be identified: a …
A Corpus-Based Analysis Of Discourse Anaphora In English And Korean: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Approach, Sok-Hun Kim
A Corpus-Based Analysis Of Discourse Anaphora In English And Korean: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Approach, Sok-Hun Kim
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
This dissertation explores discourse anaphora in English and Korean by using a neo-Gricean pragmatic approach with corpus-based data. Very little study of Korean discourse anaphora has yet taken place at the inter-sentential level, except works looking at zero anaphor and a logophoric reflexive pronoun caki`self'. This research fills this gap by examining two types of discourse anaphora at the discourse level: discourse anaphoric patterns (by order of mention of the referent and by placement of the paragraph) and sentential anaphors. Two quantitative methods were adopted to verify the distribution and the selection of anaphora: natural data collection and a survey. …
Form Interference Effects During Silent Reading, Iya Khelm, Naoko Witzel, Jeffrey Witzel
Form Interference Effects During Silent Reading, Iya Khelm, Naoko Witzel, Jeffrey Witzel
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
Although many studies have shown that phonological repetition causes reading comprehension difficulties, the nature of these processing costs remains unclear. Purpose of the study: to shed light on this issue by examining (i) the time-course of form interference effects, (ii) the interaction of these effects with syntactic processing difficulty, (iii) the extent to which these effects relate to phonological or orthographic overlap.
College Life As Reality Tv: Embrace Your New Alliance, David J. Silva
College Life As Reality Tv: Embrace Your New Alliance, David J. Silva
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
Faculty speaker’s remarks for the 2012 MavsMeet Convocation
Subgrouping Of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study From The Perspectives Of Shared Innovation And Phylogenetic Estimation, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan Lama
Subgrouping Of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study From The Perspectives Of Shared Innovation And Phylogenetic Estimation, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan Lama
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
In southwest China and neighboring countries, including Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar, there live over 100 ethnic groups who speak languages known as Nuosu, Naxi, Hani, Lisu, Lahu, etc. These languages belong to the Nisoic Branch or the Loloish Branch of Tibeto-Burman (TB) subfamily of Sino-Tibetan. Though the Nisoic affiliation to TB is unquestionable, its internal subgrouping has not been settled. This dissertation aims to study the internal relationship of 34 Nisoic and three Burmic languages from two perspectives shared innovation and phylogenetic estimation. Shared innovation has been regarded as the most reliable criterion in determining subgroups of language descent …
Repair Negotiation By English L2 Learners, Yujeong Choi
Repair Negotiation By English L2 Learners, Yujeong Choi
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
It is widely accepted that L2 learners often face communication problems due to lack of competency in the target language and familiarity with its culture of origin. One way to resolve miscommunication problems is to seek clarification of the utterance; this process is called repair negotiation (Nakahama et al. 2001). Repair negotiation has been studied as a subset of Long's (1996) Interaction Hypothesis in second language acquisition (SLA). Existing research has solely focused on repair negotiation which is initiated by the native speaker or teacher rather than the L2 learner, thus resulting in other-initiated repair (OIR). However, it has also …
Binding Accessibility And Online Anaphora Processing, Michael P. Mansbridge, Jeffrey Witzel
Binding Accessibility And Online Anaphora Processing, Michael P. Mansbridge, Jeffrey Witzel
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
No abstract provided.
Testing The Viability Of Web Dmdx For Masked Priming Experiments, Samantha Cornelius, Jeffrey Witzel, Naoko Witzel, Kenneth Forster, Jonathan Forster
Testing The Viability Of Web Dmdx For Masked Priming Experiments, Samantha Cornelius, Jeffrey Witzel, Naoko Witzel, Kenneth Forster, Jonathan Forster
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
Purpose: • Evaluate the viability of a web-based version of the DMDX software package (web DMDX). • It was unclear whether web DMDX allowed for the consistent and accurate display of experimental stimuli. Research Question: • Is web DMDX a reliable tool for psycholinguistic experiments? Are display times in web DMDX comparable to those in the original lab-based version of this software (lab DMDX)?
Masked Onset Priming In Korean: Evidence For Syllable- And Phoneme-Level Effects, Yujeong Choi, Naoko Witzel, Jeffrey Witzel
Masked Onset Priming In Korean: Evidence For Syllable- And Phoneme-Level Effects, Yujeong Choi, Naoko Witzel, Jeffrey Witzel
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No abstract provided.
Deeper Than Shallow: Evidence For Structure-Based Parsing Biases In Second-Language Sentence Processing, Naoko Witzel, Jeffrey Witzel, Janet Nicol
Deeper Than Shallow: Evidence For Structure-Based Parsing Biases In Second-Language Sentence Processing, Naoko Witzel, Jeffrey Witzel, Janet Nicol
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
This study examines the reading patterns of native speakers (NSs) and high-level (Chinese) nonnative speakers (NNSs) on three English sentence types involving temporarily ambiguous structural configurations. The reading patterns on each sentence type indicate that both NSs and NNSs were biased toward specific structural interpretations. These results are interpreted as evidence that both first-language and second-language (L2) sentence comprehension is guided (at least in part) by structure-based parsing strategies and, thus as counterevidence to the claim that NNSs are largely limited to rudimentary (or “shallow”) syntactic computation during online L2 sentence processing.
Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy And Cultural Beliefs About Causation, Laurel Smith Stvan
Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy And Cultural Beliefs About Causation, Laurel Smith Stvan
Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive
Earlier studies showed some word pairs in health discourse being conflated. If some polysemes are not recognized as fully separate senses, is there a pattern of use showing if speakers feel that experiencing one sense creates the occurrence of the second sense?
The Segments And Tones Of Soyaltepec Mazatec, Heather D. Beal
The Segments And Tones Of Soyaltepec Mazatec, Heather D. Beal
Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive
This dissertation describes the segments and tones of Soyaltepec Mazatec, an Oto-Manguean language of southern Mexico virtually undescribed in the literature with the exception of Pike (1956). The preliminary work done by Pike and subsequent analyses by Goldsmith (1990) and Pizer (1994) are reviewed giving evidence that the system is complex and not easily explained. Documentation of the segments of the language as well as a more complete documentation of the tonal system has significance for language preservation, comparative Oto-Manguean studies, and for phonological theories of tone. This paper presents original field data gathered by the author during visits to …
American Sign Language Verb Categories In Constructed Action, K. Larry Rogers
American Sign Language Verb Categories In Constructed Action, K. Larry Rogers
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The American Sign Language construction commonly known as "role-shift" superficially resembles mimic forms, however unlike mime, role-shift is a type of depicting construction in ASL discourse (Roy 1989). The signer may use eye gaze, head shift, facial expression, stylistic variation, and use of signing space to convey information (Lee 1997). While this construction may involve a level of gesture, it is linguistic in nature (Padden 1990). "Role-shift may be used to recreate the action in a narrative, thus the term: constructed action” (Metzger 1995). This aspect to depict action is the particular focus of this study. Participants were videotaped telling …
Speech Act, Evidentiality, And Implicature In The Korean Topic-Construction, Jung Sun Son
Speech Act, Evidentiality, And Implicature In The Korean Topic-Construction, Jung Sun Son
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Is it possible to map pragmatic or discourse-oriented features onto the syntax level? The Korean topic marker -(n)un has a contrastive reading that induces conventional implicature, and is closely associated with a modal morpheme that can be regarded as a kind of agreement with evidentials. This paper attempts to represent such pragmatic features (implicature and evidentiality) as being involved in the topic-construction at the syntax level. To accomplish this, the paper introduces a Speech Act Projection (SAP), whose head encodes illocutionary force, and an Evidentiality Projection (EvidP), which is headed by a modal morpheme or evidential marker. The conventional implicature …