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Linguistics Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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THE PROCESSING OF NUMBER AND GENDER AGREEMENT IN SPANISH: AN ERP INVESTIGATION
(University of Kansas, 2010-06-29)The present ERP (Event-related Potential) study investigates how syntactic agreement is processed at the electrophysiological level, examining whether the parser is sensitive to the structural distance between the agreeing ... -
English compound word processing: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese-English bilinguals
(University of Kansas, 2010-04-28)Much research has focused on the how monolinguals process morphologically complex words. However, there has been less research that focuses on how bilinguals process morphologically complex words in their L2. This study ... -
Spatial Reference in Rongga (ISO 639-3: ror), Balinese (ISO 639-3: ban), and Indonesian (ISO 639-3: ind)
(University of Kansas, 2010-02-04)Many scholars have proposed concepts relevant to spatial reference. Herskovits (1982) proposed that the topological concepts support, contiguity and containment are basic in English, while Levinson et al.'s (2003) examination ... -
THE ACOUSTIC AND PERCEPTUAL CORRELATES OF EMPHASIS IN URBAN JORDANIAN ARABIC
(University of Kansas, 2009-12-17)Abstract Acoustic and perceptual correlates of emphasis, a secondary articulation in the posterior vocal tract, in Urban Jordanian Arabic were studied. CVC monosyllables and CV.CVC bisyllables with emphatic and plain target ... -
Topics in the Syntax and Semantics of Korean Embedded Clauses
(University of Kansas, 2009-01-27)This dissertation explores two specific topics in Korean syntax and semantics: kes constructions and scrambling of embedded clause constructions (i.e. CP scrambling). These two topics are related to each other in that kes ... -
THE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING OF WH-MOVEMENT BY NAJDI LEARNERS OF ENGLISH
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)This dissertation examines the acquisition of relative clauses and wh-questions by Najdi learners of English. We investigated whether or not Najdi learners of English can acquire wh-movement, a property that is not ... -
You Heard the New Theory?: A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects and Null Auxiliaries in English
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-04)The following investigation of null subjects and null auxiliaries in English has two principle goals. First, it seeks to describe the occurrence of null subjects and null auxiliaries in English sentences. Second, it proposes ... -
A Reference Grammar of Oklahoma Cherokee
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-15)The majority of Native American Languages are threatened with extinction within the next 100 years, a loss that will entail the destruction of the unique cultural identity of the peoples that speak them. This dissertation ... -
Acoustic Realization and Perception of English Lexical Stress by Mandarin Learners
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-21)The acquisition of English lexical stress by Mandarin L2 learners was examined. An acoustic study focusing on the implementation of mean F0, max F0, duration, intensity, and F2 in stressed and unstressed vowels in noun-verb ... -
Semantic Typology Semantics of Locative Relations in Rongga (ISO 639-3: ROR)
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-15)Abstract Many scholars have proposed a universal set of locative relations. Herskovits's comprehensive study of English locative relations found that locative concepts such as inclusion, support and contiguity, and coincidence ... -
An Acoustic Study of the Japanese Short and Long Vowel Distinction
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-18)Abstract The present study concerns the vowel length distinction between Japanese short and long vowels. Previous studies (Han 1962, Hirata 2004, Kozasa 2005) concluded that short and long vowels differ from each other in ... -
Uyghur Auxiliary Verbs
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-31)One of the most salient areas of Uyghur syntax is the intricate system of complex verb constructions. There are three types of complex verb structures in Uyghur. One involves a set of verbs that are identical in form to ... -
The Effects of Speaking Rate on Mandarin Tones
(University of Kansas, 2008-05-05)This study examined the acoustic changes of speaking rate on Mandarin tones. 8 native Mandarin speakers produced 17 Chinese words with four tones at slow, normal and fast speaking rate. Acoustic parameters, such as consonant ... -
The role of lexical tone in spoken word recognition of Chinese
(University of Kansas, 2008-03-17)The present study used a direct priming task in order to investigate the nature and processing of tonal information in spoken word recognition of Chinese. Two experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1, prime-target pairs ... -
Improving the Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech through Training: A Comparison of Word and Sentence Materials
(University of Kansas, 2008-05-22)This study was conducted to test whether three days of high variability training consisting of either word-only or sentence-only materials would most effectively improve native listener accuracy for non-native speakers. ...