In this thesis, I examine zagovory — East Slavic traditional oral magical healing incantations —
pertaining to house sparrows, snake and snakebite, toothache, and epilepsy. I translated the
zagovory from Polesskie zagovory, ...
The purpose of this study is to chart the history of nominal classifiers in Sinitic (Chinese)
languages. The particular focus is the forms in which classifiers appear throughout the written
record, and to aid this analysis ...
The question of whether Mandarin Chinese adjectives and verbs belong to the same word
class or to separate ones is contested by linguists. I have conducted an empirically-based
evaluation of the theories advanced by ...
This paper seeks to investigate the existence and nature of the Critical Period Hypothesis
(CPH) in Second Language Acquisition (L2A). I conduct an extensive literature review into
many studies spanning five decades into ...
Throughout most of the 20th century, Semantics and Pragmatics were understood to be
related, but distinct fields of study. By the turn of the century, a substantial number of
scholars put into question a strict division ...
This thesis studies the different contexts behind and understandings of the term
“Filipinx”, which is intended to be a gender-inclusive alternative to “Filipino” but is now a
controversial topic that is largely divided ...
This thesis explores the roles Konglish plays in Korean Americans’ lives. The roles
investigated are the emotional, social, hierarchical, and daily-life roles. The emotional role of how
Korean Americans use Konglish in ...
There have been many articles written within the field of linguistics about slurs and how
they work theoretically, but there have been very few papers that look at these theories from an
empirical lens in more realistic ...
New ways of using language emerge in social media. While there are many positive
aspects, it also leads to anti-social behavior, cyberbullying, online harassment, and
hate speech. As a result, hate speech detection models ...
Though much literature exists on the use of humor in the foreign language classroom, the majority
of it focuses on very specific types of humor, and exists mostly in the form of pedagogical manuals.
This thesis uses a ...
In this thesis, I investigated the existence of tonal adaptation, a phenomenon that the
pitches of non-tonal words are impacted by its surrounding tonal words in an utterance, in the
code-switched speech by Mandarin-English ...
German role nouns are undergoing significant innovation with the spread of forms
which do not belong to any of the established grammatical genders. To provide a
morphosyntactic account for these ’gender gaps,’ this thesis ...
Wamesa, a SHWNG language of Western New Guinea, has three apparent valency-changing
operations (VCO’s): the pseudopassive, causative and instrumental applicative. This
paper takes a closer look at the syntactic and ...
This thesis explores existing research into Nivkh and Sakha language ideologies in order to
elucidate the need for investigations into the causes of language ideologies in future research as
well as the importance of ...
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 ...