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Spring 2010
Implicit concept mapping (iCmap; Aidman & Egan, 1998), measures: (1) the complexity of conceptual activation, and (2) the degree to which integration is internally consistent. These characteristics describe aspects of both Dual Code theory (DCT; Paivio,1986) and of lexical meaning (Johnson-Laird,...
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Accents and Adverse Conditions: Investigating the Effects of Semantic and Phonemic Information on Accented Speech Comprehension
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Under normal conversational conditions, listeners are typically able to adapt to a speaker’s accent or idiosyncrasies with relative ease. While this is a well-established phenomenon, the exact mechanisms which allow fast adaptation are not yet entirely understood, and there are a variety of...
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Spring 2024
Intergroup leadership is a frequently occurring and under-researched phenomenon. Across five studies, I examined three key intergroup leadership factors and their relation to assessing the leader and intergroup relations. To understand how these variables interacted in an intergroup leadership...
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Spring 2012
Psycholinguistics has traditionally been defined as the study of how we process units of language such as letters, words and sentences. But what about other units? This dissertation concerns itself with short lexical sequences called n- grams, longer than words but shorter than most sentences....
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Spring 2013
Reading and listening are two skills used in language processing. Many studies have investigated reading ability but fewer have looked at listening skills and no studies to date have studied the association between the two. This dissertation looks at the relationship between reading skill and...