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• Bilingual interactions, linguistic choices, and the nature of bilingual grammar: Korean students in the United States 

  Lee, Young-Sun (2015-11-18)

  The goal of this dissertation is to make empirical and theoretical contributions to the understanding of the nature of the sociolinguistic grammar of bilingual language use. Specifically the main goal will test the claims ...

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• Identity construction in nurse practitioner-patient interactions 

  Defibaugh, Staci Rae (2015-11-16)

  This dissertation explores interactions between Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and patients during both inpatient and outpatient visits. Through an analysis of interactional data coupled with ethnographic observations and ...

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• The interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion 

  Vergis, Nikolaos (2015-06-03)

  The present thesis is concerned with the interplay of pragmatic inference, face and emotion. Pragmatic inference refers to inferences that hearers or observers make when attempting to arrive at speaker meaning, a process ...

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• Automatic discovery of complex causality 

  Li, Chen (2015-07-16)

  This study entails the understanding of and the development of a computational method for automatically extracting complex expressions in language that correspond to event to event sequential relations in the real world. ...

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• Unification -Based Paradigmatic Morphology: A Theoretically -Motivated Approach to Computational Morphology 

  Smets, Martine Marthe Sylvie Arlette (2000)

  This approach has been implemented in Prolog, a language particularly suited for applications based on unification. The contribution of this thesis to the field of computational morphology is discussed and contrasted with ...

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