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Gender and dominance in action: World view and emotional affect in language processing and use
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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...
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Spring 2015
This dissertation examines native speaker perception and processing of the variability inherent to non-native speech, specifically, Mandarin-accented English. In order to accomplish this, subjective ratings were first collected as a measure of perceived foreign accentedness. The influence of...
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The Role of Information Structure in Pronoun Resolution of Child, Adult L1 and Adult L2 Speakers
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Research on pronoun resolution has a long-standing tradition and covers a wide range of factors that have been shown to affect the referential link between a pronoun and its referent. The present dissertation focuses on information structural effects in subject and object pronoun resolution in...