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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: The study of language attitudes and their development is an interdisciplinary field of research, at the intersection of psychology, sociolinguistics, and speech-language pathology. To examine attitudes towards French dialects, we formed an interdisciplinary team with...
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2006
Semantic prosody, or discourse prosody as it is also known, has come to be a familiar dimension of corpus-based lexicology (see Louw 1993, Stubbs 1995, Sinclair 1991, Partington 2004 for examples), though it is not without its critics (cf. Whitsitt 2005). As Whitsitt demonstrates through his...
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A Preliminary Investigation of Yilan Creole in Taiwan: Discussing predicate position in Yilan Creole
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Yilan Creole is a Japanese-based creole with features from an Austronesian language, Atayal, spoken in Yilan County, Taiwan. It was recognized by Chien and Sanada in 2006 (Chien & Sanada, 2010a), but much is still unknown about the language. Yilan Creole possesses many linguistic features of the...
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A Quantitative Account of Nêhiyawêwin Order: Using mixed-effects modelling to uncover syntactic, semantic, and morphological motivations in Nêhiyawêwin
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This dissertation investigates the underpinnings of the phenomenon of Order in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree) using quantitative methods and the Ahenakew-Wolfart Corpus (Arppe, Schmirler, Harrigan, & Wolvengrey, 2020). Instantiated as person-marking allomorphy on the verb, Order is central to verb...
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Acadiens, Cadjins, and Cadiens: Exploring How Cajun Identity Is Depicted and Negotiated in Une fantaisie collective
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This thesis investigates how Cajun identity, linguistic, cultural, ethnic, or otherwise, is depicted in the collection of theatrical pieces by Le Théâtre Cadien: Une fantaisie collective: Anthologie du drame louisianais cadien. It examines portrayals of Cajuns by analyzing variations in spelling...
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2014-12-03
In Canada’s increasingly global society, learning Japanese is becoming increasingly popular in schools and post-secondary institutions. Many Canadians believe that learning this new language will enhance their understandings of aspects of Japanese life and culture. Often, students of Japanese as...
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Spring 2013
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has been used in second language classrooms since the 1960’s. With the advancement of technology, new resources are becoming available to assist language learning. The widespread use of internet-capable cell phones and the thousands of apps available...
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09/20/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: The research proposes to take a tripartite approach to understanding the sources of successes and challenges in the bilingual development of Special Education Needs (SENs). Research will take place in Ottawa and Edmonton; Research in the non-elective bilingual and elective...
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2020-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: What we call a cause can vary from one context to another. Causal statements, where one identifies the cause of an event, are sensitive to contextually variant factors such as the circumstances of the statement, and the interests of the interlocutors participating in the...