• Automatic Analysis of Epistemic Stance-Taking in Academic English Writing: A Systemic Functional Approach 

  Eguchi, Masaki (University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)

  Existing linguistic textual measures that investigate features of academic writing often focus on lexis, syntax, and cohesion, despite writing skills being considered more complex and multifaceted (e.g., Sparks et al., ...
• Empirical Foundations of Socio-Indexical Structure: Inquiries in Corpus Sociophonetics and Perceptual Learning 

  Gunter, Kaylynn (University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)

  Speech is highly variable and systematic, governed by the internal linguistic system and socio-indexical factors. The systematic relationship of socio-indexical factors and variable phonetic forms, referred to here as ...
• Information Management in Isaan Storytelling 

  Raksachat, Milntra (University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)

  This study is an investigation of information packaging or information structure properties associated with selected productive morphosyntactic constructions in Isaan narrative texts. The description and analysis of ...
• Case and Gender Loss in Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund Languages 

  Alhazmi, Mofareh (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  My dissertation investigates the loss of morphological case and grammatical gender in the Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund languages. Crucial language-internal and language-external motivations are considered. To ...
• Influences on Expert Intelligibility Judgments of School-age Children's Speech 

  Potratz, Jill (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) make impressionistic intelligibility judgments as part of an evaluation of children for speech sound disorders. Despite the lack of formalization, it is an important measure of choice ...
• Factors that affect generalization of adaptation 

  Lee, Dae-yong (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

  As there is a growing population of non-native speakers worldwide, facilitating communication involving native and non-native speakers has become increasingly important. While one way to help communication involving native ...
• The Chepang language: Phonology, Nominal and Verbal morphology - synchrony and diachrony of the varieties of the Lothar and Manahari Rivers 

  Pons, Marie-Caroline (University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)

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• L2 Motivation in Language Revitalization Practice 

  Taylor-Adams, Allison (University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)

  This dissertation investigates the initial and ongoing motivations of language revitalization practitioners. This study extends our understandings of language revitalization from the programmatic and sociological levels ...
• Indigenous Methodologies in Linguistics: A Case Study of Nuu-wee-ya' Language Revitalization 

  Hall, Jaeci (University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)

  Doing linguistic research for the purpose of language revitalization, academic inclusion, and social justice fundamentally changes the perspective, questions, and goals of the work. Framing this research in a traditional ...
• Factors affecting the incidental formation of novel suprasegmental categories 

  Wright, Jonathan (University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)

  Humans constantly use their senses to categorize stimuli in their environment. They develop categories for stimuli when they are young and constantly add to existing categories and learn novel categories throughout their ...
• Production and Perception of Native and Non-native Speech Enhancements 

  Kato, Misaki (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  One important factor that contributes to successful speech communication is an individual’s ability to speak more clearly when their listeners do not understand their speech. Though native talkers are able to implement ...
• Contingency, Contiguity, and Capacity: On the Meaning of the Instrumental Case Marking in Copular Predicative Constructions in Russian 

  Tretiak, Valeriia (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  This study investigates the use of the Instrumental case marking in copular predicative constructions in Russian. The study endeavors to explain why the case marking whose prototypical meaning cross-linguistically is that ...
• Towards Modelling Pausing Patterns in Adult Narrative Speech 

  Kallay, Jeffrey (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  The study that is the focus of this dissertation had 2 primary goals: 1) quantify systematic physiological, linguistic and cognitive effects on pausing in narrative speech; 2) formalize a preliminary model of pausing ...
• Teaching Papa to Cha-Cha: How Change Magnitude, Temporal Contiguity, and Task Affect Alternation Learning 

  Smolek, Amy (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)

  In this dissertation, we investigate how speakers produce wordforms they may not have heard before. Paradigm Uniformity (PU) is the cross-linguistic bias against stem changes, particularly large changes. We propose the ...
• Verbal Morphology of Amdo Tibetan 

  Tribur, Zoe (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)

  This dissertation describes the functional and structural properties of the Amdo Tibetan verb system. Amdo Tibetan (Tibetic, Trans-Himalayan) is a verb-final language, characterized by an elaborate system of post-verbal ...
• Investigating differential case marking in Sümi, a language of Nagaland, using language documentation and experimental methods 

  Teo, Amos (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)

  One goal in linguistics is to model how speakers use natural language to convey different kinds of information. In theories of grammar, two kinds of information: “who is doing what (and to whom)”, the technical term for ...
• Nominalization and Predication in Ut-Ma'in 

  Paterson, Rebecca (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)

  U̠t-Ma'in is a Kainji, East Benue-Congo language, spoken in northwestern Nigeria (ISO 639-3 code [gel]). This study contributes to our understanding of Benue-Congo languages by offering the first indepth look at nominalization ...
• Prosodic Prominence Perception, Regional Background, Ethnicity and Experience: Naive Perception of African American English and European American English 

  McLarty, Jason (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)

  Although much work has investigated various aspects of African American English (AAE), prosodic features of AAE have remained relatively underexamined (e.g. McLarty 2018; Thomas 2015). Studies have, however, identified ...
• A Historical Reconstruction of the Koman Language Family 

  Otero, Manuel (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)

  This dissertation is a historical-comparative reconstruction of the Koman family, a small group of languages spoken in what now constitutes the borderlands of Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan. Koman is comprised five living ...
• Accessibility, Language Production, and Language Change 

  Harmon, Zara (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)

  This dissertation explores the effects of frequency on the learning and use of linguistic constructions. The work examines the influence of frequency on form choice in production and meaning inference in comprehension and ...

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