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Honours Theses (Linguistics)
The Honours Thesis is a piece of original research written by undergraduate students with the guidance of a faculty member over the final two semesters of the student's program.
Items in this Collection
- 1Allan Plesniarski
- 1Assefa, Elizabeth
- 1Bohach, Megan Naomi
- 1Bontogon, Megan A.
- 1Calkins, Kasandra
- 1Colston, Herbert L. (Advisor)
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"Socializing is my favourite": Analyzing the interplay between shyness, verbal irony use, and stereotype perception
Download2021-04-01
This thesis investigates the relationship between levels of shyness, verbal irony use, and the presence and influence of associated stereotypes. Although recent studies of personality and figurative language have addressed varying research questions, there has been little direct exploration of...
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A Comparative Analysis of Manual and Vector Semantic Organisation using a Bilingual Dictionary of Plains Cree
Download2022-05-04
This thesis shall address the nature of, and various possible approaches to, semantic classification in a bilingual dictionary setting, in this instance, in that of a low-resource language (Plains Cree/nêhiyawêwin, ISO:crk). In doing this, we shall discuss the distinct, yet partially overlapping...
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2024-04-01
This study focused on exploring ASR systems primarily for the transcription of the Totonac languages of Coatepec and Upper Necaxa. Best ASR transcription results were achieved using Meta Research MMS multilingual model with the Wave2vec ASR framework. The Totonac languages were transcribed with a...
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2013-04-16
In this study, the linguistic contexts of the English verb THINK and its near-synonyms CONSIDER, REFLECT, and PONDER will be investigated from a corpus linguistic perspective in order to determine what, if any, contextual factors are preferentially associated with the usage of each verb....
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Evaluating nêhiyawêtân: A computer assisted language learning (CALL) application for Plains Cree
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nêhiyawêtân, a computer assisted language learning (CALL) application for Plains Cree was evaluated. User reactions and behaviours were analysed using heuristic and co-operative evaluation methods. Feedback of heritage learners and other university students on the user interface were compared....
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2020-12-20
This study investigates the activation of gender stereotypes through the use of reference in pronoun resolution. More precisely, the question asked in this thesis is how social stereotypes activated through the speaker's voice (based on their gender and accent) affect language processing when...
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Listener Discrimination Between Age Differences in Two Speakers: A comparison task involving recordings of the voices of Terry Gross and Ira Glass from different years
Download2023-05-04
Often when listeners hear a speaker, they have an impression of the age of the speaker. The present research seeks to determine how well listeners can identify a speaker’s age when provided with two different recordings from one speaker. Previous research has asked participants to place a...
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Networking through regional accents: The influence of individual differences in social network properties on regional accent processing
Download2023-05-29
This thesis investigates the influence of social network size and social network “racial” diversity on regional accent processing. 122 participants listened to recorded English speech produced by 24 native English speakers. These 24 native speakers consisted of six different English speech...
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Reading (between) the lines: Individual differences in emotion processing of native- and foreign-accented speech
Download2024-04-30
Previous literature on foreign-accented speech processing indicates the presence of an accent can influence perception and comprehension across multiple levels of language processing, but emotion inferencing appears to remain as one unexplored area in this context. To our knowledge, this research...