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Consumer Linguistics: A Markedness Approach to Numerical Perceptions

Lee, Christopher (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

Marketing is about numbers but not necessarily just a number. From a big crowd to a half empty arena, adjectives carry numerical associations. The research within this dissertation builds on that idea while focusing on ...
Context, User Models and Interface Design

Douglas, Sarah A. (University of Oregon, 1988-07-12)

Most of the existing analytical descriptions of users characterize their performance as a function of the cognitive representation of the command sequences of the computer-based task (e.g. Anderson, Farrell, & Sauers, ...
Effect of hesitation sound phonetic quality on perception of language fluency and accent

Trebon, Tillena (University of Oregon, 2021)

Nonnative speech has different pausing patterns compared to native speech. There are two types of pauses: filled and unfilled. Unfilled pauses are silent. Speakers make sounds during filled pauses. Different languages use ...
The Role of Semantic Predictability in Adaptation to Nonnative Speech

Walker, Kayla; Baese-Berk, Melissa; Bent, Tessa (University of Oregon, 2020)

Nonnative-accented speech is more difficult for native listeners to understand than native-accented speech. However, listeners can improve their abilities to understand nonnative- accented speech through exposure and ...
Topics in Asimjeeg Datooga Verbal Morphosyntax

Griscom, Richard (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)

Asimjeeg Datooga is a Southern Nilotic language spoken by approximately three thousand people in Northern Tanzania, and it is grouped together with other language varieties in the Datooga family or dialect cluster. Although ...
Two Sides of Intelligibility: The Practice and Perception of Performed Accents Onstage

Kress, Ellen (University of Oregon, 2022-02-18)

The profession of voice and dialect is built upon the premise of maximum understanding for the audiences attending theatre. This maximum understanding, or intelligibility, has historically driven the practice and continues ...