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Children's Development of Knowledge and Beliefs about English Likes(s).
(2010)
Much recent research has described the development of innovative functions of 'like' as a discourse marker (Like they’re trying to be discreet about it) or discourse particle ('Maybe it’s like a girl thing') and as a ...
Arab American Youth and Sound Change in Southeastern Michigan.
(2011)
This dissertation investigates the spread of the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) sound change among Arab American high school students in Dearborn, Michigan. The NCS is a set of vowel changes found in speakers from Chicago, ...
Musicking Tradition in Place: Participation, Values, and Banks in Bamileke Territory.
(2011)
This dissertation is a linguistic and musical ethnography of Bamiléké people in Bangangté, a town in Cameroon where many musical groups are also rotating credit associations. These “musical banks” met each week to address ...
Processing Coordinated Verb Phrases: The Relevance of Lexical-Semantic, Conceptual, and Contextual Information towards Establishing Verbal Parallelism.
(2010)
This dissertation examines the influence of lexical-semantic representations, conceptual similarity, and contextual fit on the processing of coordinated verb phrases. The study integrates information gleaned from current ...
Ci Arrangiamo: Negotiating Linguistic Shift-Maintenance in an Italian- Canadian Community.
(2008)
This dissertation investigates the complexities of language shift and maintenance among four generations of Italian Canadians by examining what participants say about language and what they do with language in family ...
Understanding Language to Support Equitable Teaching: How Beginning English Teachers Engage Complexity, Negotiate Dilemmas, and Avoid Deficit Ideologies.
(2011)
This qualitative study provides illustrations embedded in case studies of four focal preservice English teachers and illuminates how they negotiated dilemmas related to linguistically informed principles (LIP) and folk ...
Sociolinguistic Priming and the Perception of Agreement Variation: Testing Predictions of Exemplar-Theoretic Grammar.
(2011)
This dissertation investigates the sociolinguistic perception of morphosyntactic variation and is motivated by exemplar-based approaches to grammar. The study uses syntactic priming experiments to test the effects of ...
Prediction and Memory Retrieval in Dependency Resolution
(2024)
Successful language comprehension requires the rapid deployment of working memory resources alongside the capacity to predict upcoming linguistic input. While previous research views these as competing factors, this ...