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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"P Philology. Linguistics"”.
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A sociolinguistic analysis of communication patterns between midwives and mothers in antenatal clinics in Great Britain and Germany
Building on the success of previous investigations, the doctoral thesis offers a contribution to the study of communication between health professionals and their clients. Since the overall aim of the investigation was to analyse both the verbal and non-verbal communication strategies used by both …
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The acquisition of alternation in a second language
This study examines the acquisition of alternation in a second language (L2) by focusing on the acquisition of the copular verbs in Spanish, ser and estar, by native speakers of English, who have only one copula, be, in their first language (L1). Specifically, this thesis focuses on the acquisition …
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Thinking outside the box: processing instruction and individual differences in working memory capacity
Processing Instruction is a pedagogic intervention that manipulates the L2 input learners are exposed to in the classroom. Proponents of this intervention claim that it poses a minimal strain on learners’ processing resources. While there has been extensive research on the benefits of Processing …
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A semantic contribution to verbal short-term memory: a test of operational definitions of ‘semantic similarity’ and input versus output processes
Baddeley and Hitch (1974; Baddeley, 1986, 2000) propose that coding in verbal short-term memory is phonological and that semantic codes are employed in long-term memory. Semantic coding in short-term memory has been investigated to a far lesser degree than phonological codes and the findings have …
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Measuring primary, secondary and cumulative effects of processing instruction in the acquisition of French
This thesis presents the results of a classroom experiment designed to investigate the possible transfer-of-training effects of two types of instruction on the acquisition of the past imperfective aspect, subjunctive mood, and causative constructions in French. An input-based practice, Processing …
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Description and contrastive analysis of tense and time in English and Arabic
Summary available; p. xxxi - xxxiii
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Studies in the dialect and palaeographical materials of the medieval West Country
The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive phonological and morphosyntactic overview of the dialect materials found in Devon, Dorset and Somerset during the Middle Ages. Building on methodology developed during the creation of the Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English, the present …
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Quality and efficiency factors in translation
It is the objective of this research to carry out the following: (a) Establish working definitions and terminology of translation, quality and efficiency. (b) Propose a means of evaluating quality and efficiency in translation. (c) Review the process used in the private sector as revealed by …
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Towards an Understanding of the Appropriate Cultural Content of EFL Textbooks for a Specific Teaching Context: The Case of EFL Textbooks for Saudi Secondary State Schools
The purpose of this study is to understand the appropriate cultural content of EFL textbooks for Saudi state secondary schools according to the students’ and their teachers’ opinions. The design of this study is a sequential explanatory mixed-method design, and each stage is informed by the results …
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Intonation in Luo
This thesis investigates the intonation of Luo. It shows how intonation distinguishes sentences. It also investigates how information structure (i.e. focus, dislocations and topics) is intonationally cued in a sentence. The aim is to establish the phonological and phonetic representation of Luo …
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Concept-Based Instruction for Enhancing Understanding and Use of English Tense and Aspect Markers by Algerian Learners of L2 English
This study reports on an investigation of the potential of Concept-Based Instruction (CBI) for enhancing EFL learners’ understanding of the concept of tense/aspect in English and their use of associated forms; past simple, past continuous and present perfect. CBI was compared to a traditional …
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An Element-geometry Approach to Depressors in Bantu & Chinese
This thesis presents a multi-layered element-geometry approach to explain how different types of depressors are represented and the mechanism for depressor-tone interactions. Though there are already comprehensive discussions on consonant-tone interactions in the literature, systematic studies on …
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Stress and Epenthesis in Alatawalah Arabic: Classical versus Stratal OT
This study provides a comprehensive description of lexical stress and vowel epenthesis in Alatawalah Arabic (AA), a variety spoken in the village of Alatawalah southwest of Saudi Arabia, which has never been studied before. It presents and compares an account of both processes in classical …
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Grammar in Interaction: Polar Interrogative Sequences in Talk-in-Interaction
The current study investigates the sequential organisation of the polar interrogative sequence. By implementing Conversation Analysis ethnomethodology, the study explores the action and form-related preferences which underpin the structure and the various trajectories of this type of sequence. The …
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A sociolinguistic study of a southern Iraqi dialect: fortition of the variants [j] and [ʧ].
Although dialect levelling is commonly investigated in research on phonological variation and change, it has been rarely dealt with in the Iraqi context. My research investigates sociolinguistic variation and change in the dialect of the Mišlab tribe in Qalʿat Siker, (a south-Mesopotamian dialect), …
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Phonology-Morphology Interaction in Abha Arabic: Vowel Processes in Stratal Optimality Theory
This thesis focuses on phonological processes that result from phonology-morphology interaction in Abha Arabic, which is a variety spoken in the southwestern region of Saudi Arabia. The main motivations are providing an account of vowel processes in Abha Arabic and testing Stratal OT’s ability to …
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Dzongkha: Variation inFinal Nasals and Rhotics
This first quantitative sociolinguistic analysis of Dzongkha (Bhutan’s official language), as spoken by residents of the capital Thimphu, investigates variation and change in two salient and traditional linguistic features: syllable-final nasals (N) and postvocalic rhotics (R). Thimphu is Bhutan’s …
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Japanese Learners’ Recognition of English Vowel Phonemes
This research will be informative for the English language education of Japanese learners from the standpoint of phonology and phonetics. Japanese learners struggle to recognise English sounds accurately due to the substantial differences that exist between the Japanese and English languages. …
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Enhancing EFL teacher trainees’ cognition through Systemic Theoretical Instruction (STI)
Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory (SCT) proposes that human mental functioning is fundamentally a mediated process that is organized by cultural artefacts, language being one of the primary means of mediation (Lantolf & Thorne, 2007). Based on SCT, Gal’perin (1969) conceived Systemic Theoretical …
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