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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Language, Modern"”.
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An Unstable Container
… gender, and sexuality, and the ways in which language, society, and the human body contribute to the construction of one's sense of self. Through the lenses of language, modern technology, medicine, and genetics, <em>An Unstable Container </em>explores blackness, queerness, masculine identity, …
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Le vocabulaire de Maupassant.
Le but de notre etude est de degager les caracteristiques du vocabulaire de Guy de Maupassant. En partant de l'outil de base de l'ecrivain, le mot, nous avons effectue une analyse statistique et stylistique du vocabulaire tire de quatre contes: "Farce normande", "Le vieux", "Aux champs" et "La …
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Reasuntivos y doblado del clitico: En torno a la caracterizacion del termino "Casi-Nativo"
… spite of having been in contact with the Spanish language since childhood, differ from the Spanish standard norm sanctioned by grammarians and linguists with respect to both their grammatical competence and their ability to process this language. In order to carry out this investigation we have …
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Phonetic and Phonological Evidence for Intermediate Phrasing in Spanish Intonation
… for a reanalysis of basic F0 contours in the language within the AM framework.
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Russian Bird Names: A Linguistic Analysis
The dissertation is divided into 13 chapters. Chapters 1-3 provide the ethnobiological context. Chapter 4 discusses semantic classification systems of bird names, and chapters 5-11 contain individual bird name entries for each of the six semantic categories described above plus foreign borrowings. …
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Syntax and Semantics of Path -Denoting Particles and Prepositional Phrases in German
This thesis analyzes the syntactic and semantic structure of German path-denoting expressions in combination with motion verbs. Path-denoting expressions include path-denoting prepositional phrases and path particles (separable prefixes). Descriptions of syntactic and semantic structure are …
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Das Schattenjahr 1932 Subjekt Zwischen Krise Und Katastrophe Im Roman Der Spaeten Weimarer Republik
"Chapter four discusses concepts of ""youth"" as represented in 1932 novels by authors from various political backgrounds."
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Weakening of Intervocalic /P, T, K/ in Two Spanish Dialects: Toward the Quantification of Lenition Processes
The dissertation concludes with a discussion of the implications of the experiment's results on our present understanding of stop implementation in Spanish, and suggested avenues for future research. These include the proposal of a method by which the imperfect relationship between speech style and …
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Acoustic Correlates of the Syllable: Evidence From Spanish
… thesis, following work by other authors on other languages, is that the duration of segments reflects their affiliation in the syllable structure in Spanish. In order to test this hypothesis two experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, we measured the duration of voiceless stops in …
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Intonation and Language Contact: A Case Study of Two Varieties of Peruvian Spanish
… in questions in Spanish is produced by all three language groups in Cuzco. This research then demonstrates the importance of examining several intonation features for possible contact, since not all features may undergo the same change.
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Mood Simplification: Adverbial Clauses in Heritage Spanish
Results show that position does not play a big role in recognizing and using the subjunctive. There are similarities between the monolingual and heritage speakers regarding familiarity with and use of the grammatical subjunctive. Heritage speakers seem to be more tolerant towards the ungrammatical …
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Spanish Subjects
Finally, I also find that the quantifiers un 'a', algun 'some (sg.)' and their corresponding plurals are positive polarity items: they have always wide scope over negation, disregarding their position.
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An Acoustic Study of Voiced Stop Allophony in Costa Rican Spanish
The findings of the study show that the dialect of the Central Valley of Costa Rica is more conservative in its treatment of /b, d, g/. Speakers of this dialect categorically produced more occlusive realizations in all tasks performed relative to those obtained from speakers of Madrid Spanish. This …
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Language Contact in Majorca: An Experimental Sociophonetic Approach
… feature. The relevance of these findings for language contact research is discussed.
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High Initial Tones and Plateaux in Spanish and Portuguese Neutral Declaratives: Consequences to the Relevance of F0, Duration and Vowel Quality as Stress Correlates
… in order to express stress in these two languages.
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Diphthongization of Non-High Vowel Sequences in Latin American Spanish
The findings of this study confirm that the articulation of Spanish adjacent vowels is internally driven by phonetic/phonological factors such as proximity to stress and initiality (with posttonic position being the most favorable for diphthongization to occur), but also provide evidence that the …
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Dialect Divergence and Identity in Basque Spanish
… factors 'area of residence', 'parental origin', 'language spoken at home' and 'relative exposure to Basque' have an effect on the appearance of the Basque variant [aw], for the /-ado/ variable. In the case of the use of the multiple vibrant (r), the results show that 'parental origin' and 'area of …
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Les Formes Du Dualisme Litteraire Et Socio -Culturel en Afrique
f1Kane, Cheikh Hamidou.(1961). L'aventure ambigue.
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"Assia Djebar and ""La Ville Blanche"": Writing in and on the *City"
… past, continuing down the hillside to the modern city and ending at the port, a site that Djebar revisits in several of her works, and which serves as the interface between self and other.
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The Effect on Reading Comprehension of Required Mastery of on -Line Prereading Activity Quizzes
The present study evaluated the effect of differing levels of prereading activity modules and on-line quizzes on the subsequent reading comprehension of an authentic short story in French. Forty-eight participants from six intact third-semester French classes were randomly assigned to three …
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