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Spring 2024

Moore, Devin

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...

1987

Heller, Robert Barry

Fall 2017

Marrville, Caelan

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...

2011-10-13

Nicoladis, Elena

SSHRC Awarded IG 2012: Verbs are harder than nouns for children to learn. This research project will test two central hypotheses about verb learning in children: First, in experimental situations, children benefit from co-speech gesture as shown by enhanced verb learning. Second, in everyday...

1966/xx/xx

Glickman, Robert J., Gerrit Joseph Staalman

A manual for using the computer programs PRORA in literature and linguistics research, Developed at the University of Toronto; <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <!-- This XML metadata document supplements the metadata that we can enter into ERA archive records. This provides more...

1982

Wujastyk, Dominik

Introduction: The most spectacularly successful of the sciences in Ancient and Mediaeval India was linguistics (Sanskrit, vyakarana, 'analysis' or 'veriformation'). Linguistics acted as a paradigm for the methodology and style of expression of other disciplines, especially in such fields as logic...

2024-01-30

Wujastyk, Dagmar

SSHRC CG awarded 2024: This conference will explore the interplay between science and philosophy in the premodern period of South Asia. Topics include but are not limited to: Philosophical Foundations of Knowledge; Hermeneutic Traditions, Ancient Indian Cosmology, Medicine and Healing Traditions,...

1988

Tchir, Maria Anna.

2024-02-01

Filiatrault-Veilleux, Pamela

SSHRC IDG awarded 2024: Inferential comprehension difficulties of young children are often invisible, may significantly impact children’s ability to engage with others or with learning content, and/or be misinterpreted as behavioral issues. This research project aims to (1) explore WHY young...

2017-10-08

Beck, David

SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: The project will document languages belonging to the Central Totonac branch of the Totonacan language family, which are in danger of extinction. Languages contain irreplaceable records of a people's knowledge of their natural environment and their cultural, social, and...