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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"English and Korean"”.
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Anaphora Resolution Algorithms With Category: English and Korean
In sum, this dissertation develops faster and more efficient computational algorithms for anaphora resolution, in which category combinatorics determines the actions. In those algorithms, various kinds of anaphoric expressions are resolved similarly. Through the analyses and their implementations, …
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A moraic study of some phonological phenomena in English and Korean
… account of some phonological phenomena in English and Korean by employing the framework of moraic phonology.
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Agentivity of passives and inchoatives in second language learners of English and Korean
… L2 learners lexically causativize unaccusatives and then syntactically passivize them. This study suggests an alternative possibility: Passive unaccusatives may be caused by learners' confusion in the agentivity of passives and inchoatives. This study therefore explores whether L2 learners know …
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A Study of Temporal Variables in English and Korean: Cross-Linguistic, Development, and Native/nonnative Analyses
… temporal phenomena in language production, using English and Korean stories based on a film. The temporal variables included were primary temporal variables (speech rate, articulation rate, pause-time ratio, mean length of runs, and mean length of pauses), secondary temporal variables (repeats, …
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A grammatical and pragmatic analysis of English passives in second language acquisition
… purposes: (a) to provide a contrastive analysis and theoretical background of the passive in English and Korean; (b) to investigate how Korean learners of English use the English passive in terms of forms, meanings, and functions.One major claim in this dissertation is that the passive is best …
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Bilinguals’ Emotion and Language: An Exploratory Study of Korean-English Bilinguals’ Experience of and Expression of Shame
A major aim of this study was to investigate Korean-English bilingual students’ psychological experiences and verbal expressions of shame in Korean and English. In particular, this study focused on how English as a language of Education influences the ways in which University students acknowledge …
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Bilingual Language Organization: Lexical and Syntactic Processing
In these experiments, the French-English and Korean-English bilinguals showed an intermediate nature in their lexical and syntactic processing. The results are interpreted as support for the Mixed Hypothesis and the conclusion is made that, instead of applying the extreme version of the Shared or …
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Native and nonnative speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs assessed in grammaticality judgments and multiple choice tests
… investigated speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs. In Experiment 1, both native speakers of English and Korean learners of English as a second language made grammaticality judgments about dative sentences in English. This part of the thesis reexamined the roles of markedness …
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Teachers' Codeswitching in Secondary EFL Classrooms in Korea
… toward two different pedagogical goals of English lessons: teaching for enhancing communicative competence of English or teaching in preparation for exams. The first teacher's predominant use of English and delay in codeswitching to Korean occurred in contexts where she promoted …
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Working Memory Effects on Bilingual Sentence Processing
… a series of six experiments examined the online and offline relative clause attachment preferences of English monolingual speakers, Korean monolingual speakers, and late Korean/English bilingual speakers when processing globally ambiguous English and Korean relative clauses. Results showed that …
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"Fragile bilinguals: rescaling ""good"" and ""bad"" South Korean bilinguals"
… explores how U.S.-based multilingual South Korean speakers of English and Korean negotiate their positions in the over-crowded and complex lingusitic market, and try to stake a claim to being legitimate bilinguals through the process of metapragmatic typification (Agha, 2007). First, I …
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Advocacy in Mental Health Social Interactions on Public Social Media
… is a social phenomenon in which individuals and collectives attempt to raise awareness and change opinions and policies about health-related causes. Mental health advocacy is health advocacy to advance treatment, rights, and recognition of people living with a mental health condition. The …
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Patron-client relationship in cross-cultural church planting: a case study of Cambodia Bible College, 1998 - 2015
… is: ‘How does the patron-client dynamic between Korean missionaries and Cambodian church planters offer an alternative understanding of aid dependency within the discourse of mission studies?’ While the patron-client relationship has been a popular concept in social anthropology studies, its …
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The Food Safety Knowledge Level of Certified Food Managers Who Attended Two Self-Selected Training Courses
… on millions of employees daily to ensure proper and safe food handling of food products consumed by the general public. The State of Texas requires food establishments? management or person in charge be trained in food protection. For this inquiry, the researcher studied the knowledge level …
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Opinion Topic, Holder and Polarity in texts: exploration and automatic identification from cross-lingual data
… Also, with the rapid development of technology and the internet, more and more multilingual and multicultural information has become available on the web. The objective of the present dissertation is exploring and automatically extracting opinions from multilingual corpora. In pursuing this …
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Overcoming the challenges: How native English-speaking teachers develop the English speaking skills of university students in South Korea
English is considered the most important language after Korean in South Korea; thus, it is a compulsory subject in schools. English lessons begin in year three of the primary school and continue until the end of schooling, including at the university level. This was not always the case, as English …