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Spring 2022
This dissertation presents a description of the morphology and phonology of Zihuateutla Totonac (ZT), a member of the Northern branch of the Totonacan (Totonac-Tepehua) language family. Zihuateutla Totonac is spoken by about 1,100 people in northern Puebla State, Mexico. Previous to this study,...
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The Comparative Effects of Traditional, Vocabulary, and Grammar Instruction on the Reading Comprehension and Fluency of High School English Language Learners
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To meet the academic demands of high school content courses such as science, English language learners (ELL) require more exposure to academic language than they currently receive (Wong Fillmore, 2014). Although vocabulary is a key source of difficulty for students’ comprehension of science texts...
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Fall 2023
This doctoral dissertation investigates, synchronically and diachronically, the morphophonology and semantics of the categories of Latin diminutives and structurally similar non-diminutives, two categories that have long been in urgent need of reanalysis. It aims to answer questions relating to...