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Exploring between the lines: the role of texts and interlinear representation in the description of Coahuitlán Totonac
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Recording and transcribing textual material is a critical part of documentary and descriptive linguistics. The advantages of text collection in minority language communities are recognised to extend beyond linguistics and texts offer a valuable record of the community’s oral history. Although...
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Spring 2023
As we listen to spoken language, the brain performs multiple levels of computation, from understanding individual words to comprehending the arc of a story. Recently, computational models have been developed that also process text on multiple levels. These models, called multi-timescale long...
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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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Fall 2019
Creating strong AI systems for trick-taking card games is challenging. This is mostly due to the long action sequences and extremely large information sets common in this type of game. Thus far, search-based methods have shown to be most effective in this domain. In this thesis, I explore...
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Spring 2019
Current state-of-the-art algorithms for trick-taking card games use a process called determinization. Determinization is a technique that allows the application of perfect information state evaluation algorithms to imperfect information games. It involves a two-step process in which a perfect...
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Spring 2019
Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a complex debilitating condition presenting with a diverse array of symptoms that include fatigue, memory and cognitive difficulties, headaches, sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal problems, skin rashes, as well as musculoskeletal/joint pain. It affects up to one third...