• Sandwich Construction and Narrative Coherence in ASL Storytelling 

  Smith, Rhiannon (2017)

  In general. while sign language storytelling and spoken language storytelling share many larger-scope narrative strategies such as parallelism, repetition, and meta-narrational devices, the visual-spatial modality of ...
• Simultaneity as a unique property of visual-spatial language: the simultaneous structure of two-handed classifier predicates in bimodal ASL/English narrative ebooks for Deaf children* 

  Holloway, Ian Forrest (2017)

  Simultaneity, or the co-occurrence of linguistic material at any level, is widely recognized as a fundamental property of the grammar of signed languages, a natural consequence of their visual-spatial modality. Enabled ...
• Name Signs in American Sign Language* 

  Wild, Mollie R. (2017)

  Here, I discuss the history and origin of name signs in American Sign Language from their first appearances in the early 19th century (Supalla 1992:23) to present day. Most name signs in American Sign Language are fully ...
• Possession and Agentivity in Nukuoro 

  Drummond, Emily (2017)

  A two-way possessIOn distinction is common throughout Polynesian languages, traditionally described as a distinction between alienable and inalienable possession. Loosely, alienable possession describes things that can ...
• Classifications of Mundari Expressives and Other Reduplicated Structures Based on Phonological Patterns, Transitivity, and the Effects of Valency-Reducing Affixes 

  Gray, Sam (2017)

  Despite academic interest in the Munda languages of South Asia (Anderson 1999, Mohan 2008, Osada 1991, 2008) and their propensity for reduplication, previous work in this area does not address the resulting reduplicated ...
• Morphosyntax of the Bangla Affix -ta 

  Benham, Claire (2017)

  In this thesis, I provide a mid-level descriptive analysis of the Bangla suffix / -(aI. I provide a discussion of the distribution of the affix in regards to other nominal markers of the language, the different meanings ...
• A Comparative Analysis of Noun Incorporation Productivity in English and German 

  Westley, Ian (2017)

  Noun incorporation (e.g. crab-walk or hand-hold) is defined by Feist (2013) as a word or expression that includes a noun in the verbal constituent of an utterance. In this paper, I compare the productivity of noun ...
• Authorship Attribution of Song Lyrics 

  Tarlin, Lee (2017)

  Authorship attribution is a common application offorensic linguistics that can be performed on a variety of data types. The goal of authorship attribution is to predict the creator of a piece of linguistic data by analyzing ...
• Rules Versus Objectives: What is Most Salient in Toddlers' Language Acquisition? 

  Sciascia, Jordan (2017)

  How do young children learn the complex rules of language? Prior research has shown that infants as young as 7 months of age can learn simple rules, such as abstracting an ABB pattern after hearing strings of sounds ...
• A Guide to Building a Diphone Speech Synthesis System for Kalaallisut 

  Rehrig, Sophie (2017)

  Diphone speech synthesis is the process of creating an artificial voice capable of converting text input to vocalized speech by means of concatenating diphones. While compared to unit selection. the most popular modem ...
• Tense in agrammatism: An analysis of monolingual and bilingual aphasic studies 

  Penner, Hannah (2017)

  Agrammatic aphasia is defined by fragmented speech and impaired syntax. As it has been observed in several linguistic studies, tense may be omitted or impaired in the speech of agrammatic individuals. Researchers have ...
• Growing a (Family) Tree: Evaluating the Na Dene-Yeniseian Language Family Hypothesis through Phylogeny 

  Murray, Bridget (2017)

  In historical linguistics, deep genealogies postulating far-flung"macro-families11 have been at once fascinating, thought-provoking, and highly controversial because they reach beyond the limits of standard reconstruction ...
• That Southern Charm: /s/ Deletion in Southern Spain 

  Little, Sally A. (2017)

  This paper explores final consonant deletion in Southern Spain. Deletion of final lsi and Idl are considered markers of the Southern Spanish accent in the eyes of the speakers. However, previous research by Hualde et al. ...
• A Minimal Rule Generalization Algorithm for Multi-Part Phonological rule Learning 

  Kostyszyn, Kalina (2017)

  In the late 1990's, Adam Albright and Bruce Hayes worked together on an algoritlnn that learned morphologic patterns from input data, intending to use this as a model for how humans learn morphological and phonemic changes ...
• Insider Perspective: Attitude and Motivational Orientation among Heritage Learners of Japanese 

  Gilmore, Miki (2017)

  This study investigates the attitudes and motivational orientations of heritage learners of Japanese. Twenty-seven students enrolled in Japanese classes in colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area participated ...
• Nicaraguan Sign Language as a Realization of the Language Bioprogram 

  Buyco, Delfin Gerard (2017)

  This study compares Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN) and Hawaiian Creole English (HCE) in order to validate the realization of the Language Bioprogram in environments that lack linguistic input. Bickerton (1981) proposed ...
• Let Buguns be Buguns: A Preliminary Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology of the Bugun Language 

  Lander-Portnoy, Maury (2013)
• Evidentiality and Mirativity in Navajo 

  Zou, Wanhong (2016)

  This thesis examines the evidentiality and mirativity in Navajo. There are possibly two evidential markers in Navajo, the reportative iini and the quotative "a-+inflected form of dishni ... inflected form of dishni", and ...
• Chicana Language and Identity in a Primarily White Institution 

  Barrientos, Guadalupe (2016)

  Past research has shown that prejudice persists towards speakers of English with an accent (Lippi-Green 2011), non-standard English dialects (Mendoza-Denton 1999), and even borrowed words pronounced in their language of ...
• The Rise of French: An Examination of Latin's Influence upon Middle French through Analysis of Christine de Pizan's Treatises 

  Jones, Susannah (2016)

  In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the vernacular Middle French began to be used more extensively as a language of prestige over Latin, which had been overwhelmingly the scholarly lingua franca as well as the ...

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