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• Investigating sources of phonological rarity and instability: a study of the palatal lateral approximant in Brazilian Portuguese 

  Wong, Nicole Wannie (2017-02-07)

  The palatal lateral is a rare sound in the world's languages; a review of the literature reveals just 23 languages that currently possess the palatal lateral. Similarly, only 15 (or 3.33%) of the languages in the UCLA ...

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• The acquisition of resyllabification in Spanish by English speakers 

  Scarpace, Daniel L (2017-01-04)

  How do second language learners produce and recognize words in continuous speech when speech segmentation strategies differ between languages? This thesis explores phrases that have been affected by the process of ...

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• Teacher-student interaction in one-on-one ESL writing conferences 

  Yoon, Jihye (2016-12-01)

  With a conversation analytic approach, this study analyzes how teachers and students interact in one-on-one ESL writing conferences, focusing on the preference structure of advice-giving, epistemic displays, and teachers’ ...

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• The evolution of online asexual discourse 

  Hinderliter, Andrew Clinton (2016-12-02)

  Technological, social, and economic changes in recent decades have led to new possibilities for communication and for forming communities that are not tied to a specific geographical location. This creates new opportunities ...

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• Modal auxiliary verbs and contexts 

  Moon, Lori Ann (2016-11-22)

  Modal auxiliary verbs, such as `could', `might', `must', `would', and others, have different readings depending on the context in which they occur (Kratzer 1981). The sentence `Jess could fry the fish' can mean that, in ...

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