Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Language typology"”.
-
Linguistic Diversity On Africa: Clustering Methods Application On Language Typology Data
One of the main goals in language research is to understand the distribution of linguistic diversity and its underlying principles. Linguistic typology allows us to characterize diverse languages in terms of their linguistic features, which can be used to create a relatively comprehensive …
-
Language Typology and Sentence Frame Effects on Motion Verb Interpretation in Grade Schoolers
… been found to rely somewhat more on the overall language pattern, or typology (Hohenstein et al., 2004; Naigles & Terrazas, 1998). Grade schoolers have not been examined in this paradigm, and their linguistic abilities suggest that they may show an important part of a developmental trajectory …
-
Sign Languages of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and their Challenges for Sign Language Typology
The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to classification and the fact that they are understudied (Nyst, 2010, p. 416). This thesis investigates the languages of 12 deaf …
-
Sign Languages of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and their Challenges for Sign Language Typology
The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to classification and the fact that they are understudied (Nyst, 2010, p. 416). This thesis investigates the languages of 12 deaf …
-
Language universals, language typology and L2 acquisition: A cross-sectional study of adult English speakers learning Chinese
… study is an attempt to integrate the theories of language universals, language typology, and markedness with interlanguage (IL) phenomena, specifically those relating to the process of acquiring Chinese as a second language. The central question addressed is whether or not a composite theory of …
-
Word order in ancient Greek: VSO, SVO, SOV, or all of the above?
Post-Homeric Greek is a language which has a high degree of freedom in the placement of words/phrases within the sentence, so much so that there have been competing claims regarding the so-called 'basic' or 'unmarked' order of constituents. VSO, SVO, and SOV have all been claimed to be the 'basic' …
-
The numeral system of Japanese Sign Language from a cross-linguistic perspective
This thesis investigates how the Japanese Sign Language (JSL) numeral system can be characterised with respect to aspects of the linguistic structure of JSL numerals at the phonological and morphological levels; to typological comparisons with other sign languages; and, finally, to sociolinguistic …
-
Multilinguals' language control
… tried to explain how speakers of more than one language (multilinguals) manage to keep their languages separate and to switch from one language to the other depending on the context. This ability of multilingual speakers to use the intended language, while avoiding interference from the other …
-
Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World
This thesis presents work in two areas; Language Technology and Linguistic Typology. In the field of Language Technology, a specific problem is addressed: Can a computer extract a description of word conjugation in a natural language using only written text in the language? The problem is often …
-
Typology of Signed Languages: Differentiation through Kinship Terminology
… understand the linguistic constraints of spoken languages, while largely neglecting signed languages. Despite the fact that spoken languages can be classified into types, signed languages are generally assumed to be clustered all together in one type which the current study challenges. Exploring …
-
Speech in space and time: Contact, change and diffusion in medieval Norway
… includes several effects of societal factors on language change. Most discussed is the proposal that ‘intensive’ language contact causes simplification of language grammar. In the Norwegian case, the claim is that simplificatory changes which affected all of the Continental North Germanic …