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- 6Psycholinguistics
- 4Linguistics
- 3Language and languages--Study and teaching
- 2French language--Study and teaching--Audio-visual aids
- 2Gender stereotypes
- 2Hammer, Petra
- 1Archer, Cameron Geoffrey.
- 1Armenian, Atken.
- 1Carter, Barbara
- 1Derwing, Tracey Mary
- 1Fearon, Daniel P.
- 2Järvikivi, Juhani (Linguistics)
- 1Antti Arppe (Linguistics)
- 1Blair, Heather (Department of Elementary Education)
- 1Colston, Herbert (Linguistics)
- 1Dr. Louise Ladouceur (Études théâtrales, Campus Saint-Jean) - co-supervisor
- 1Dr. Sathya Rao (Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies) - supervisor
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A STUDY ON THE AUDIENCE RECEPTION OF THEATRE SURTITLES: Surtitling in a Francophone Minority Context in Canada and the Language Learning Potentials of Theatre Surtitles
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This mixed-methods study focuses on the audience reception of theatre surtitles in a Francophone minority theatre context in Western Canada at L’UniThéâtre in Edmonton, Alberta. The main objective of this multifaceted research was to measure the perceptions of and reactions to English surtitles...
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Gender and dominance in action: World view and emotional affect in language processing and use
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This dissertation examines the association between the emotional dominance of verbs and the perception, or inference, of character gender. In the context of this dissertation, emotional dominance is described as the perceived level of power, or control, exerted by a verb. I hypothesize that when...
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Graded effects of first and second language orthography on pronunciation during second language acquisition
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This study aims to assess how frequency-based and probabilistic measure describing the orthography-phonology relationship influence the accuracy of second language (L2) pronunciation in a phonological decoding task for native English learners of German, and a control group with no formal...
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Spring 2010
While much research has been dedicated to studying the speech of French immersion students, relatively little is known about their sociolinguistic competence, particularly in the area of phonetics. This study aims to determine the extent to which a group of French immersion students in Ontario,...
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Fall 2023
Previous research indicates that knowledge about sociocultural norms affects language processing immediately and automatically. One such example is the Stereotype Effect, where sentences containing violations of gender stereotypes take longer to read and are rated as less appropriate than...