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Spring 2015
This dissertation examines native speaker perception and processing of the variability inherent to non-native speech, specifically, Mandarin-accented English. In order to accomplish this, subjective ratings were first collected as a measure of perceived foreign accentedness. The influence of...
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Fall 2017
A socio-cognitive approach to language assumes language is multimodal, embodied in general cognition, and modulated by contextual cues (van Dijk, 2014). Research on situation models confirms that language is processed multimodally and experiences top-down influence from pre-existing knowledge in...
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Spring 2018
This dissertation examines the comprehension and production of Estonian case-inflected nouns. Estonian is a morphologically complex Finno-Ugric language with 14 cases in both singular and plural for each noun. Because storing millions of forms in memory seems implausible, languages like Estonian...