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(University of Oregon, 2019)With at least 25 attested languages in the family, the Cariban Language Family is found from Columbia to French Guiana to the Brazilian Amazon. Through a historical reconstruction that looks at 15 language in the family, ...
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(Boletím Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, 2008)Abstract of the published paper from which the posted appendices are takenː In his landmark work Language in the Americas, Greenberg (1987) proposed that Macro-Carib was one of the major low-level stocks of South America, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)This project examines reader reception of U.S. Latino-authored narratives that engage in varying degrees of textual code switching and bicultural belonging. The analysis builds on the argument that these narratives, as ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-09)The current dissertation investigated clear speech production of Korean stops to examine the proposal that the phonetic targets of phonological categories are more closely approximated in hyperarticulated speech. The ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)This dissertation stages a reciprocal critique between traditional and marginal philosophical approaches to language on the one hand and interdisciplinary studies of speech-accompanying hand gestures on the other. Gesturing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)The focus of this dissertation is on how language experience shapes perception of a non-native prosodic contrast. In Tokyo Japanese, fundamental frequency (F0) peak and fall are acoustic cues to lexically contrastive pitch ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)The current dissertation investigated segmental and prosodic aspects of first- (L1) and second-language (L2) speech production. Forty Korean-speaking adults and children varying in L2 experience (6 months-inexperienced vs. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Previous analyses have made insightful progress on how Lushootseed functions primarily based upon elicitation work and morphosyntactic observations. Much of this work is based upon a structural linguistic analysis. For ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020)Linguistic landscapes are necessary for ethnolinguistic communities to be comfortable in their place of residence. Linguistic landscape is the study of representations of languages that are displayed in public spaces such ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-09)This dissertation investigates constructional alternation among the English verb- at , verb- away-at , and verb- away constructions. The primary purpose is to lay a fundamental conceptual framework on the interrelation ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-12)This dissertation is a comprehensive grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla (KK), as spoken by about 1000 elders in the Peruvian Amazon. It presents detailed documentation of the structures of the language and the functions they ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-03)Kurtop is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 15,000 people in Northeastern Bhutan. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language, based on extensive fieldwork and community-driven language ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)Yakima Ichishkíin/Sahaptin is spoken in the Yakama Nation, located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States in what is now south central Washington State. The Ichishkíin and Nez Perce languages comprise the Sahaptian ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-09)Improvements in neuroimaging techniques have made it possible to answer questions regarding the neural organization for the processing of syntax in normal participants. In this series of experiments we examined the effects ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)When translating between any two languages, both linguistic and theoretical considerations must be made in order to create a successful translation. These choices are not made separately, however, but are inextricably ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-06)Sociolinguists studying computer-mediated communication often study the effects of categorical variables on online language use, but studies of the effects of community membership have lagged behind. Such studies of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-05)"Linguistic relativity, more colloquially known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, is the idea that the native language one speaks shapes the way one perceives and experiences the world. This is not to say that language ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-06)The purpose of this research is to develop a comprehensive and multi-faceted understanding of the current status of the French language in Louisiana. French in Louisiana has been spoken for hundreds of years, and, in spite ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)This study examined idiom understanding in 120 neurologically healthy adults, ages 20-29 (20s Group), 40-49 (40s Group), 60-69 (60s Group), and 80-89 (80s Group) years old. Each participant was administered a familiarity ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-06)Travel and its accompanying literature have long been popular in modern societies. Early forms of the genre reflected attributes of the anthropological ethnography and were focused upon educating and informing their readers ...
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