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Spring 2016

Leonard, Catherine M

Background. Stuttered speech (e.g., th-ththth-th-ththth-the car) and typical disfluencies (e.g., thee uh car) have some similarities. Previous research describes a tendency in listeners to predict that a speaker will refer to an unfamiliar object, rather than a familiar one, when both are equally...

2020-01-01

Lindsay Chopiuk

This thesis examines the effect of political ideology on language processing. While it is well established that the semantics of language have an effect on language users’ comprehension process, there is little research on the effect of personal characteristics, particularly political ideology,...

2017

Elizabeth Pankratz

2014-10-02

Tessier, Anne-Michelle

SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: ESL acquisition in early childhood is not well understood or even well-documented. Early L2 child speakers appear to produce more varied types of phonological errors compared with monolingual children, some but not all of which are predictable from their own mother tongues....

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...