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- 3Language Learning
- 2Early Childhood Education
- 1Aboriginal culture
- 1Algonquian
- 1Bicultural Children
- 2Noels, Kimberly A.
- 1Aesha Fazli
- 1Akerman, Janine
- 1Bontogon, Megan A.
- 1Daniel Benedict Dacanay
- 1Divya Prasad
- 5Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 5Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 2Psychology, Department of
- 2Psychology, Department of/Journal Articles (Psychology)
- 2Linguistics, Department of
- 2Linguistics, Department of/Honours Theses (Linguistics)
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Spring 2014
This thesis examines Indigenous rhetorics of resistance from the Treaty Six negotiations in 1876 to the 1930s. Using methods from Comparative Literature and Indigenous literary studies, the thesis situates the rhetoric of northern Plains Indigenous peoples in the context of settler-colonial...
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A Comparative Analysis of Manual and Vector Semantic Organisation using a Bilingual Dictionary of Plains Cree
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This thesis shall address the nature of, and various possible approaches to, semantic classification in a bilingual dictionary setting, in this instance, in that of a low-resource language (Plains Cree/nêhiyawêwin, ISO:crk). In doing this, we shall discuss the distinct, yet partially overlapping...
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A Quantitative Account of Nêhiyawêwin Order: Using mixed-effects modelling to uncover syntactic, semantic, and morphological motivations in Nêhiyawêwin
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This dissertation investigates the underpinnings of the phenomenon of Order in Nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree) using quantitative methods and the Ahenakew-Wolfart Corpus (Arppe, Schmirler, Harrigan, & Wolvengrey, 2020). Instantiated as person-marking allomorphy on the verb, Order is central to verb...
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Evaluating nêhiyawêtân: A computer assisted language learning (CALL) application for Plains Cree
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nêhiyawêtân, a computer assisted language learning (CALL) application for Plains Cree was evaluated. User reactions and behaviours were analysed using heuristic and co-operative evaluation methods. Feedback of heritage learners and other university students on the user interface were compared....
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Parents’ Ethnotheories of their Bicultural Children and of Parenting: Interpretive Case Studies with Three Intercultural Couples in Canada
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I conducted three case studies spanning three different Canadian provinces to explore parental perceptions of childhood and childrearing held by parent couples in intercultural marriages in which one spouse was Canadian born and raised and the other was foreign born and raised and immigrated to...
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2015-01-01
There are many reasons, some of which are better than others for sustaining motivation over the long run. Research evidence suggests that a personally relevant, self-engaged, and inherently interested orientation to language study supports engagement in the learning process, and thereby a variety...
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2021-10-01
Since the early 2000s, almost 300 SDT-relevant empirical journal articles and approximately the same number of dissertations have been published, with at least half appearing in the last five years. A review of the studies published in peer-reviewed journals (see Table 1) shows that half of...
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Syntactic Features and Text Types in 20th Century Plains Cree: A Constraint Grammar Approach
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This dissertation describes the creation of a morphosyntactically tagged corpus of Plains Cree (nêhiyawêwin), an Indigenous language of North America, and demonstrates three ways in which this corpus can be used to explore morphosyntactic variation in the language on a larger scale than...