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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Welsh and Irish languages, the indigenous languages of Wales and Ireland, respectively, have
experienced significant declines in their speaker populations since the beginning of English settlement in
their homelands. ...
This thesis documents the spelling system created by Aurora Sánchez Gómez for Zapotec (Otomanguean) as spoken in San Bartolomé Quialana, Oaxaca. Beyond documentation, areas of over and underrepresentation of the underlying ...
This paper provides preliminary evidence that in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec (SLQZ),
an Otomanguean language of Oaxaca, Mexico, plant taxonomy exhibits a unique
system wherein life-form classes overlap significantly. ...
Koshur, also known as Kashmiri, is a Dardic language spoken primarily in the Kashmir
Valley of South Asia, the center of the international Kashmir conflict, in India-administered
Kashmir. It has about 7 million speakers ...
This thesis explores interactions between food, language, culture, and marketing in order to
recognize their convergence in food product advertising. Marketing, a field that blends the
studies of psychology, sociology, ...
An under-studied phenomenon of lexical borrowing is the ill-formed, or partially
assimilated loanword. Loans of this kind invite otherwise prohibited structures into
the borrowing language, and in doing so contradict the ...
Some signs are articulated with one manual articulator (1H signs), others with two (2H
signs). Over time, some 2H signs become 1H in a process called Weak Drop, motivated
and conditioned by a number of relatively easy ...
This paper will investigate different loss functions used for various natural
language processing (NLP) machine learning tasks. These loss functions have
proven their worth in the area of machine translation but they ...
Biakic is a small subgroup of New Guinea’s Austronesian (AN) languages
belonging to the South Halmahera-West New Guinea (SHWNG) family. The
Biakic group contains four languages: Biak, Roon, Roswar, and Dusner. Following
the ...
This thesis seeks to assess previous computational work done regarding reduplication
in order to account for reduplication in a morphological analyzer for the Wamesa language.
This paper includes a brief introduction to ...