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- 2Itagaki, Nobuya, 1951-
- 1Abdulrahim, Dana
- 1Abraham, Elyse K.
- 1Adlington, Janice L.
- 1Alarifi, Abdulaziz
- 11Psycholinguistics
- 10Speech perception
- 8Linguistics
- 5Language acquisition
- 4Bilingualism
- 4English language--Vowels
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Fall 2010
This dissertation addresses different kinds of Mandarin multi-verb constructions (MVCs), seeking to solve a long-standing problem in Chinese linguistics: namely, how to account for a plethora of constructions, including a subset called serial verb constructions. In most previous studies, only a...
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Fall 2013
In this dissertation, I present a corpus-based, constructionist account of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) GO verbs (ḏahaba, maḍā, and rāḥa) and COME verbs (atā, ḥaḍara, ǧā’a, and qadima). These seven deictic motion verbs count among the most frequent lexical items in MSA, nevertheless, they are...
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Spring 2022
It is common in linguistic analysis to treat words as strings of speech segments that are believed to be transduced from the speech signal. However, there are notable shortcomings with this approach, especially concerning word comparison. Principally, comparing speech segment strings does not...
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Spring 2012
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of suffix ordering in English from a psycholinguistic perspective. Key to this work is an examination of Complexity-Based Ordering, a theory of affix ordering that combines both selectional restrictions and processing constraints. Complexity-Based...