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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"cross-linguistic study"”.
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A cross-linguistic study of Broca's aphasia
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1981.
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Epistemic action and language : a cross-linguistic study
… inherently spatial in nature. In this regard, a cross-linguistic replication of an experiment by Maglio et al. (1999) which required participants to produce as many words as possible within five minutes from a string of seven random letters was performed in order to investigate epistemic actions …
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A cross-linguistic study of requestive speech acts in email communication
The study investigated the formulations of requesting strategies in writing by ESL PhD students. The aim was to discover the extent to which their performance converged or differed from that of English Ll participants. Furthermore, in order to account for the ESL participants' possible differential …
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A cross-linguistic study of certain temporal features of speech in stuttering and nonstuttering children
Four experiments were performed to measure temporal coarticulatory speech features in the perceptually fluent speech of 120 South African children. The aim was to test, in a limited way, the postulate that stuttering may be essentially a disorder of speech timing. Comparisons were made between …
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Intervention effects in German : a contiguity approach
… from the languages explored by Branan's (2018) cross-linguistic study. Japanese, Korean, and Mongolian, being syntactically right-headed, prosodically left-active languages, first destroy but then reestablish a Contiguous Probe-Goal relationship in the course of the derivation of intervention …
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An Element-geometry Approach to Depressors in Bantu & Chinese
… this thesis aims to bridge this gap through a cross-linguistic study of five Bantu languages and some dialects of Chinese Wu, all of which show depressor effects. Depressor types, laryngeal settings, feature specifications of these depressors will be discussed. In addition, both constraint …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
This thesis is a study of synchronic consonant insertions in Amfo'an, a variety of Meto (Austronesian) spoken in Western Timor. Amfo'an attests synchronic consonant insertion in two environments: before vowel-initial enclitics and to mark the right edge of the noun phrase. This constitutes two …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
This thesis is a study of synchronic consonant insertions in Amfo'an, a variety of Meto (Austronesian) spoken in Western Timor. Amfo'an attests synchronic consonant insertion in two environments: before vowel-initial enclitics and to mark the right edge of the noun phrase. This constitutes two …
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The Phonology and Phonetics of Word-Initial Geminates
… dissertation represents the first major cross-linguistic study of initial geminates. It is a crucial preliminary step in understanding a significantly understudied class of sounds, thereby providing a more solid empirical basis for the study of language sound systems.
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A corpus-based contrastive study of the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish
The present study investigates the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish. It is a bi-directional study that uses empirical fiction and non-fiction material in the form of original texts and their translations from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. Using a contrastive research …