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(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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(1999)Chapter 5 shows how interdialectal differences stem from constraint ranking. Epenthesis and syncope in Iraqi and Egyptian Arabic are accounted for by permuting the constraint set that is present in the grammar of Syrian ...
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(2015-04-23)This is a primary study investigating the pedagogical approach of employing cross-cultural contrastive rhetoric (CCCR) comparisons in graduate-level ESL Writing Service Courses at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ...
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(2013-08-22)Languages that do not use space or other punctuation to demarcate word boundaries typically show improvements in early reading time measures when spaces are inserted. However, it seems that Thai may not follow this same ...
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(1995)This dissertation argues that what are traditionally called lexical relations (antonymy, synonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, etc.) are not strictly part of linguistic knowledge. Instead, these semantic relations among words are ...
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(2001)Next, to test the claim that judgments of cross-language similarity predict L2 perception/production abilities for children and adults alike, in Experiments 2 and 3 both the beginning and advanced Korean-English bilinguals ...
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(1982)The present study is intended as a threefold contribution: (1) to the field of language acquisition in general; (2) to the particular field of child bilingualism, and (3) to the field of general linguistics.
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(2002)This thesis investigates how the informational status of words is expressed by means of intonation in two pitch accent languages, Tokyo Japanese and Bermeo Basuque, in which the tonal shape of words is lexically determined. ...
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(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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(1985)This thesis deals with the representation of the functional relations such as agent, instrument, source and so on that are assigned to the various participants in a situation. It can be viewed as an investigation of that ...
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(1998)The Recovery Rules are not proposed to take the place of pragmatic information but intended to be an alternative theory for interpreting Chinese zero anaphors. They can be applied in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, ...
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(1997)It has been observed that word order and intonational prominence in MC NPs tend to correlate with definite and indefinite readings of the NPs. Based on recurring interpretive patterns in MC, I show that in MC, definite ...
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(2013-08-22)Very little has been said about the intonation system of Hindi and Indian English. This study aims to contribute to the field of intonation studies by bridging the gaps in the understanding of intonation patterns of Hindi ...
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(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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(1979)In this thesis, I defend Noam Chomsky's transformational account of "John is easy to please". Then, in the light of an analysis of "John is an easy man to please", based on the infinitival relative, I ...
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(2010-08-20)In this thesis, the focus is the analysis of bounced language test items - rejected test questions which, if retained, may result in strange effects compared with normal items. Typically, test items are expected to show ...
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