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2019-04-20
At the University of Alberta, a subscription to data resources from the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) presented a cataloguing problem for library staff and access difficulties for users: resources were published in digital and physical formats, but the digital access was difficult to...
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2018-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: Canadian English is vastly understudied. This is particularly true regarding the melody and rhythm of Canadian speech (prosody/intonation). Prosody features as key in most theoretical and applied research that involves spoken language, but in Canadian English, these...
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Storytelling and Special Interests: Microstructure in the Fictional and Personal Narratives of Autistic Adults
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Background and objectives: Past research has found that autistic individuals have pragmatic and morphosyntactic deficits in narrative language; however, the majority of these studies use fictional narrative prompts and are on children, not older autistic individuals. Furthermore, very few use...
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2020-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: To date, the vast majority of heritage studies in the North American context examine the development of immigrant children's heritage/home language separate and apart from the development of the societal language. These studies have consistently shown that immigrant...
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1980
One way of 'restricting linguistic theory' is the L-view: place sufficient restrictions on the allowable rules of grammars so as to reduce their generative power. Another way is the G-view: disallow certain grammars, regardless of whether this results in a reduction of generative capacity. The...
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The role of orthographic input in the distributional and lexical learning of non-native speech sounds
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This dissertation explores the interaction between orthographic information and auditory forms in the distributional and lexical learning of consonant length contrast by monolingual English speakers. Two potentially important orthographic variables were examined: Orthographic compatibility...
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The role of paragraphs in the construction of coherence text linguistics and translation studies
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This article presents and illustrates a formal model of linguistic analysis in order to explain a phenomenon that is fundamental to translators in their practice: the construction of coherence. First, the role of paragraphs in the construction of coherence is explained with the application of the...
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2013-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2014: How do humans recognize speech? How do factors such as native language, age, and dialect have an effect on the way in which spoken words are recognized? The present proposal seeks to investigate these and other questions regarding spoken language recognition by creating and...