This paper analyzes the development of numerosity in one English-Spanish bilingual
two-year old. Using three of Wynn’s 1992 number experiments that have shaped the field of
children’s number-learning, I compare my subject’s ...
A commodity biography, The Social Life of Kava: The Circulation, Transformation, and
Extraction of Piper methysticum examines the various ways that the meanings and forms of kava
are transformed as the plant is introduced ...
In September 2019, Houston, Texas bore witness to “Howdy Modi”—a Trump rally
welcoming Narendra Modi, India’s current Prime Minister, to the United States. Modi’s public
appearances in the United States have not been ...
As a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, telemedicine and telehealth websites have become
increasingly more common and necessary. This thesis aims to understand how the shift to online
care influences what it means to be ...
What inspired me to research the Occupy! Gazette?
Nearly a decade ago, when I was thirteen years old, Occupy Wall Street began in New
York City’s Zuccotti Park. Occupy Wall Street can be considered a reaction to the US ...
The process of representation in the global media environment is implicated in complex
and contested power relations over whose stories are told, how and by whom. Due to an array of
geopolitical factors, Africa has become ...
This thesis explores social divisions and urban exclusions in Cairo by investigating the city’s
social distinctions and how they are informed by and practised across the urban landscape. In this
ethnographic study of ...
The rise in attention toward fan-based activism has grown tremendously in the last
decade, and that growth has only surged since the substantial organizing of One In An
Army, a volunteer collective composed of fans of ...
From May 2020 through August 2020, like so many others, I found myself and my
family gathered in our TV room, eyes trained on the screen, as news reports flashed updates on
the current state of protests in cities across ...
What does it mean to resist? What does it mean to resist when always faced with the possibility of death? What does it mean to be alive? 2020 was a year that was marred by political strife, racial injustice, both systemic ...
Construction of natural language processing products and systems have become increasingly
available and present in research and, for many people, everyday life. However, existing
machine translation systems and research ...
It is almost unbelievable to realize that just a century ago we did not know that
galaxies outside Milky Way exist let alone the Universe is expanding. After Einstein formulated his theory of General Relativity, it became ...
Vagueness is an essential feature of natural language. Some scholars argue that vague
predicates such as bald,
at, and tall are necessary because humans are faced every day
with situations where their ability to ...
This thesis develops a prototype system for automatically generating structural transfer rules for the Apertium machine translation platform in order to streamline the process of constructing language technology for
the ...
Many modern Central Zapotec languages have deleted unstressed vowels. I
investigate the historical steps that led to this change by analyzing texts written in Colonial
Valley Zapotec, a historical form of Zapotec. I ...
This thesis is a linguistic analysis of fiction podcasts, focused on the research question: how do linguistic
ideologies and stereotypes function in fiction podcasts? To this end, I used both quantitative and qualitative ...
In Algonquian languages, when a transitive sentence contains only third-person arguments, one
of the arguments is marked as obviative. Factors such as animacy and possession govern the
assignment of an argument as ...
This thesis uses the framework of language socialization to investigate the socializing potential of
children’s clapping games. Adapting Schieffelin and Och’s 1986 definition of language socialization to
refer to music, ...
In this thesis, I examine the communal linguistic strategies that members of Rose Twitter, a loosely
organized community of socialists and leftists, employ when reacting to breaking news events. I
selected four breaking ...
This thesis investigates the appearance of linguistic ideologies and stereotypes in four recent
Disney films (Frozen 2013, Moana 2016, Coco 2017, and The Lion King 2019) as they compare
to those studied in older animated ...