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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...

Fall 2014

Shantz, Kailen TW

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...

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,...

1987

Derwing, Tracey Mary

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...