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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Tagalog"”.
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Non-verbal argument structure : evidence from Tagalog
… predicates (focusing primarily on adjectives) in Tagalog. Drawing on evidence from a variety of construction types (including Comparative, Existential, and Ellipsis constructions among others), I argue against the claim that adjectives differ from verbs in their ability to project an internal …
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Infixer: A Method for Segmenting Non-Concatenative Morphology in Tagalog
… data. The target language for this project is Tagalog, a major language of the Philippines that makes extensive use of non- concatenative morphology, and the training data is built from data from the IARPA Babel Program and the Tagalog Wikipedia.</p> <p>The results for this test were promising, …
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The structure of Tagalog : specificity, voice, and the distribution of arguments
This thesis examines the syntax of Tagalog with a particular focus on argument structure and its implications for clause structure. Through cross-linguistic comparison I show that Tagalog syntax is not as exotic as is often assumed and that it can be straightforwardly accounted for using available …
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A Comparative Variationist Analysis of Phonetic Variation and Change in Toronto Heritage Tagalog
… processes underlying variation and change. Using Tagalog spontaneous speech data from two generations of heritage speakers in Toronto, and from older and younger homeland speakers in Manila, three phonetic variables are examined: the F2 of /u/, voice onset time (VOT) of /p t k/, and the …
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The interaction of morphological and phonological rules in Tagalog : a study in the relationship between rule components in grammar.
Thesis. 1979. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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Language usage and language attitudes among education consumers : the experience of Filipinos in Australia and in three linguistic communities in the Philippines / by Iluminado C. Nical.
… and language attitudes in relation to Filipino/Tagalog, Philippine languages other than Tagalog and English among senior high school students and their parents in two countries, the Philippines and Australia. The study provides an historical overview of the development of national language …
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Patient Activation and Self-Management of Hemoglobin A1C among Filipinos
… direction for research to further develop the Tagalog version of PAM to capture the full context of the survey considering that 84% of participants used the Tagalog version of PAM scale.</p>
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Popular Politics in a Philippine Municipality
… (light), and so forth. The consistent usage of Tagalog word-concepts, rather than their English translation, is a key feature of the methodology.
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Buhol-Buhol: The Possibilities and Problems of Entanglement in Contemporary Manila Theatre
… capital of the Philippines. Drawing on its Tagalog counterpart, buhol-buhol, I conceive entanglement not only as a juxtaposition between or among elements, but also a process of enmeshing, muddling, and snaring. Taken together, these manifestations of buhol-buhol enable me to affirm the …
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The Attitudes and Perspectives of Filipino-Americans Regarding Speech and Language Disorders
… online survey provided in either English or Tagalog language. The survey consisted of a demographic questionnaire and statements related to speech and language disorders. One-hundred-sixty-six (166) Filipino-Americans representing 24 states completed the survey and provided their level of …
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Default ergative
… discuss languages outside Mayan (i.e., Chukchee, Tagalog and Kurmanji) with an eye towards the extension of the default ergative analysis to these languages. I focus on the cross-linguistically attested syncretism between ergative and oblique case, and suggest that ergative may also be assigned to …
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Care of Aging Parents: The Experiences of Middle-Aged Filipino Women
… Filipino women were conducted in English and/or Tagalog, and at times a combination of both languages. Data were transcribed verbatim from the audio-recorded interviews and analyzed using a constant comparative method of analytic induction. Field notes were kept and patterns of observation were …
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Gender variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
… backgrounds: Malayalam, Punjabi, Bengali, Tagalog, Sinhala, and Sunda. Interviews were conducted in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. Half of the informants had spent five years or less in the Gulf, while the other half had spent 10 years or more in the area at the time of …