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2018-03-01
Paradis, Johanne, Govindarajan, Krithika, Hernandez, Keren
The home language environment and language abilities were compared between children with ASD and children with typical development, both from newcomer families. Children were in elementary school, mostly 6 and 7 year olds. The goal was to understand if there were differences in bilingual...
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2020-01-01
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,...
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2019-04-01
This study is a replication of a previous study done by Atterer & Ladd (2004) looking at the prosodic contours of English and German bilinguals. Atterer & Ladd (2004) showed that segmental anchoring of prenuclear rising accents occurs in both English and German, but speakers of these languages...
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Language and literacy skills of English Language Learners in middle school (grades 7-9): How do they compare to their monolingual peers?
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Paradis, Johanne, Marinova-Todd, Stefka, Soto-Corominas, Adriana, Zhang, Xuan, Rusk, Brian, Day, Kayla
Language and literacy skills in English are essential for academic success for English Language Learners (ELLs) but very little research exists on second language oral and literacy skills of ELLs in middle school. For this research report, the oral language and literacy skills of 227 students -...
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2022-01-01
Speech technologies may benefit people by improving the accessibility of information or services, by increasing productivity, or by generally improving human-computer interaction. However, speech technologies are only available for use in a small portion of the world’s languages. The present...
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Modes of Metaphor and Me: The Role Shyness Plays in the Interpretation of Visual and Verbal Metaphors
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This thesis examines whether or not one's level of shyness affects one's interpretation of visual and verbal metaphors. Current research demonstrates that shyness correlates positively with more negative interpretations of counterfactual irony and that personality traits are related to certain...
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2019-06-01
We designed an exploratory pilot study to examine the nature of onomatopoeia use in Canadian 8mother’s speech to infants (12-18 months old) on the brink of a period of rapid productive vocabulary development with prevalent individual variation in vocabulary size (Fenson et al, 1994). The study...
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2016-05-01
Human production and perception of language, although studied for decades, is largely misunderstood. Furthermore, not all sounds in human language have been studied extensively. Typologically rare sounds arguably lack reliable documentation and research. One such sound is voiceless nasals. Debate...
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2018-12-20
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
This paper has been significantly updated and published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Please read and cite that version instead, which can be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0009584. The present study quantifies the effects of lexical competition during spoken word...
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2020-04-24
This thesis presents an acoustic analysis of a collected corpus of Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan English (SASE). Acoustic information of vowels (formant values, duration, etc.) are measured for SASE monophthongs and Canadian Raising (CR) diphthongs. Variation in the acoustic properties of...