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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"langauge"”.
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Extra-Linguistic Factors in Langauge Comprehension
Personality has been found to have significant connections to language. Ranging from impacting narrative style, to informing expectations about others based on linguistic factors such as accent, personality affects both language comprehension and production (Oberlander & Gill, 2004; Van den Brink …
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College-level ELLs in two English composition courses: the transition from ESL to the mainstream
… are particularly linguistic, based on the five langauge skills reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar. These behaviors will be analyzed separately through participant observation in class, and through two surveys given to participants in the study. Data will be analyzed for patterns in …
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Thinking outloud: the problem-solving language of preschoolers with and without language impairment
… revealed a split between children with normal langauge and children with specific language impairment. Efficient children with normal language spoke more and devoted more of their speech to narrowly task relevant utterances. Efficient children with specific language impairment spoke less but …
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Continuation Stealing in Julia
… use. An extension to the Julia programming langauge that adds support for optimizable spawn and sync parallel constructs has been proposed, but it does not currently support continuation stealing. In my thesis, I implement continuation stealing in Julia using two different metaprogramming …
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Grounding linguistic analysis in control applications
… control actions. We show that in this setting, langauge analysis can be learnt effectively via feedback signals inherent to the control application, obviating the need for manual annotations. Moreover we demonstrate how information automatically acquired from text can be used to improve the …
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`Osi kia Velenga: An educational quest for academic success in literacy for Tongan students in New Zealand
… learner (ELLs), an English Speaker of Other Langauge (ESOL), and a bilingual learner, in order to adequately address the learning needs and the learning interests of the Tongan learner. By this means, the Ako Conceptual Framework was developed by the researcher within this study to offer …
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Parental motivation for enrolling a child in a two-way immersion language program
… the parent to enroll their child in a dual-langauge program, the responses from Spanish-dominant parents were as follows: 90.11% of the respondents enrolled the child in the program because they wanted their child to be able to speak, read, and write in two languages, 67.10% enrolled because …
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CONSTRUCCIÓN DE IDEOLOGÍAS LINGÜÍSTICAS SOBRE BILINGÜISMO EN REDES SOCIALES: UN ANÁLISIS MULTIMODAL DE VIDEOS DE TIKTOK
… multimodal resources used to communicate them. Langauge ideologies are not limited to the evaluations that a community makes about an individual and his or her way of speaking; they establish a hierarchy among the linguistic varieties present in an individual's or community's environment, …
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Automatic induction of verb classes using clustering
Verb classifications have attracted a great deal of interest in both linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). They have proved useful for important tasks and applications, including e.g. computational lexicography, parsing, word sense disambiguation, semantic role labelling, information …
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Controllable natural language generation for audience-centric styles
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Explorations of Sound Symbolism and Iconicity
Sound symbolism refers to the finding that individuals have biases to associate certain language sounds (i.e., phonemes) with certain perceptual and/or semantic features (see Lockwood & Dingemanse, 2015; Sidhu & Pexman, 2018a). An example of this is the association between the phoneme /i/ (as in …
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Analyzing Best Practices in the Schooling of Secondary-Level Latino Newcomer Immigrant Youth: A Comparison Study of Two Yearlong Specialized Programs
<p>The purpose of this research study is to compare two yearlong program models designed specifically to educate secondary-level newcomer immigrant youth within one large, urban school district in Southern California. The two divergent secondary-level programs that are compared in this study, a …
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Science as a Second Language: Analysis of Emergent Bilingual Performance and the Impact of English Language Proficiency and First Language Characteristics on the Colorado Measures of Academic Success for Science
<p>In an age when communication is highly important and states across the nation, including Colorado, have adopted Common Core State Standards, the need for academic language is even more important than ever. The language of science has been compared to a second language in that it uses specific …
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It Takes Two: a Study of Meaning Negotiation and Multimodal Communication in Collaborative Gaming
This study examines how multimodal interaction resources such as speech, movement, and gesture mediate negotiation for meaning during collaborative gaming among second language learners. It also investigates the production of language-related episodes by second-language learners. This qualitative …
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Effects of Language Shift on Families and Young Children
This personal reflective narrative seeks to investigate what effects there are on children from non-English families when these families make decisions about the language use in their homes. These decisions may be intentional or be a result of situations that evolve over time. Nevertheless young …
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A sensorimotor basis of speech communication
This dissertation presents the development of sensorimotor primitives as a means of constructing a language-agnostic model of speech communication. Insights from major theories in speech science and linguistics are used to develop a conceptual framework for sensorimotor primitives in the context of …
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Ideologies, policies, and practices: Japanese language education in Australian secondary schools
This study explores Japanese Language Education (JLE) in Australia by untangling an interplay of language policies, practices and ideologies. It focuses on top-down policy initiatives, the bottom-up grassroots practices of secondary school Japanese language teachers (JLTs), and language ideologies …