Browsing by Subject "Linguistics"
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51 properties of 125 words: A unit analysis of verbal behavior
(Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980-01-01)Values for 125 words were obtained for 51 scales including measures of orthography, pronunciation, imagery, categorizability, association, number of attributes, age-of-acquisition, word frequency, goodness, emotionality, ... -
Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables
(2016)In my thesis, “Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables,” I ask and answer the ‘Who? What? Where? When? Why?” of Creole Literature using the 19th century production of Aesopian ... -
Deconstructing Essentialist Identities: Reimagining the Russian Disapora of the Third Wave
(2013)The identity of the Third Wave Russian Diaspora has been misunderstood through the oversimplification of their ethnic and language identity. In addition, the methodologies of sociolinguistic fieldwork, including bilingual ... -
Development and Assessment of the Effectiveness of an Undergraduate General Education Foreign Language Requirement
(Foreign Language Annals, 2014-01-01)© 2014 by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. This article describes a faculty-led, multiyear process of formulating learning objectives and assessing the effectiveness of a foreign language requirement ... -
Emerging Hispanic English in the Southeast U.S.: Grammatical Variation in a Triethnic Community
(2013)AbstractThis study investigates variable past tense marking patterns in an emerging variety of N.C. Hispanic English (n=44) spoken by language learners at three Length of Residency (LOR) groups in three schools in Durham, ... -
Lucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates
(2019)This dissertation investigates ancient language ideologies constructed by Greek and Latin writers of the second and third centuries CE, a loosely-connected movement now generally referred to the Second Sophistic. It focuses ... -
The Dynamics of Linguistic Humor Comprehension
(2017-05-30)As a performance whose functioning relies heavily on sociocultural rules, humor does not easily transcend cultural and language lines. In most cases, humor comprehension requires more than fluency in a language. Linguistic ... -
The Influence of Structural Information on Natural Language Processing
(2020)Learning effective and efficient vectoral representations for text has been a core problem for many downstream tasks in natural language processing (NLP).Most traditional NLP approaches learn a text representation by only ... -
Variable wordforms, adaptable learners: evidence from real-time word comprehension and naturalistic corpora
(2021)When learning a language, typically-developing infants face the daunting task of learning both the sounds and the meanings of words. In this dissertation, we focus on a source of variability that complicates the one-to-one ... -
Vulnerabilidad de lenguas en Durham, NC: un análisis geolingüístico y socioeconómico
(2022-06-12)In the context of linguistic rights, I present a series of cartographic observations about the growing diversity of languages in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. This work’s purposes are to identify vulnerable populations ...
