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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"markedness"”.
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The theory of markedness in generative grammar.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics.
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Exquisite Corpses: Markedness, Gender, and Death in Video Games
… sacrifice to explore how death in games stages markedness. Markedness articulates how a culture treats normative identities as unproblematic while marking non-normative identities as deviant. Chapter One characterizes play as a form of death-deferral, which culminates in the spectacle of …
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The phonetics and phonology of coronal markedness and unmarkedness
… restriction in outputs are attested: coronal unmarkedness and coronal markedness. This thesis shows that coronal unmarkedness is truly a default pattern of place restriction. Coronal unmarkedness is not confined to specific segmental contexts or to languages with a particular inventory …
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A Markedness Approach to Epenthesis in Arabic Speakers' L2 English
… this thesis illustrates that the universal markedness of consonant clusters could be a factor that motivates L2 speakers to simplify complex syllable margins. Universal markedness has to do with the frequency that a structure occurs cross-linguistically. Languages that allow complex syllable …
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A Markedness Approach to Epenthesis in Arabic Speakers' L2 English
… this thesis illustrates that the universal markedness of consonant clusters could be a factor that motivates L2 speakers to simplify complex syllable margins. Universal markedness has to do with the frequency that a structure occurs cross-linguistically. Languages that allow complex syllable …
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Markedness and instructed SLA: An experiment in teaching the Spanish subjunctive
… study has investigated the role of typological markedness on instructed second language acquisition (SLA). In particular, the study has examined whether instruction in a marked Spanish subjunctive use had an effect on the acquisition of this marked element and triggered the acquisition of …
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Native and nonnative speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs assessed in grammaticality judgments and multiple choice tests
… This part of the thesis reexamined the roles of markedness and language transfer in the context of Korean as the first language of English learners. Unlike findings in previous studies on the acquisition of English dative alternation by native speakers of French that markedness could predict the …
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Learning phonotactic constraints in the production of non-native consonant clusters, as reflected in speech errors
… phonotactic learning is moderated by universal markedness constraints (e.g., Berent, Steriade, Lennertz, & Vaknin, 2007; Redford, 2008). To that end, this study aims to provide evidence for the idea of an adaptive language production mechanism that is sensitive to recent experience, but subject …
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Phonetic Faithfulness in Phonological Opacity
… opaque are initially biased by certain phonetic markedness conditions. Second, these phonetic biases, encoded in the phonetically enriched inputs, are mapped onto the nearest phonologically contrastive sounds to satisfy the requirement of phonetic faithfulness, resulting in surface phonological …
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Language universals, language typology and L2 acquisition: A cross-sectional study of adult English speakers learning Chinese
… 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 universals and typological parameters can …
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"Cerulean Skies" by Maria Schneider: A Formal and Semiotic Analysis
… the concepts of high point, periodicity, markedness, and virtual agency are discussed. These are combined with a discussion of her distinct formal schema as theorized by Ben Geyer.</p> <p>The resulting methodology is applied to “Cerulean Skies” in chapters three, four, and five. While the …
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Constraints on vowel-zero alternations in Hungarian
… below as Syncope) is outranked not only by the Markedness constraints that define illicit CC-clusters in Hungarian but also by the faithfulness constraints that are normally violated in the repair of such clusters. The general ranking I will argue for is: (1) Markedness (*CC for various CCs) » …
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Morphological variability in long-distance subject-verb agreement: A study of native and nonnative processing
… agreement: structural distance and plural markedness. The study also investigated the effects of task demands on processing of agreement morphology. Participants completed an online reading task using a moving window self-paced reading paradigm. In order to explore whether increases in …
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Illustrating the prototype structures of parts of speech: A multidimensional scaling analysis
… conceptual targets. The criteria of typological markedness is used to identify asymmetries in how these lexemes are formally encoded relative to each other across the three propositional act functions. These markedness asymmetries are then coded for and illustrated in a multidimensional scaling …
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The phonetics and phonology of tone mapping in a constraint-based approach
… of positional faithfulness and positional markedness constraints. The research findings reported here have implications for both phonetics and phonoloy.
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Focus, polarity and framing effects
… It is possible that these results are due to markedness of the terms, where empty is considered marked and full unmarked (Greenberg, 1966). The final two experiments look at two sets of logically equivalent frames in neutral contexts and find that participants find it easier to read about …
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Examining native and non-native establishment of dependencies in the online processing of coordinate phrase agreement in Spanish: An event-related potentials study
… specifying its feminine value. Featural markedness has been linked to both native speaker and L2 learners’ grammatical processing in Spanish. For instance, when two or more nouns with different gender values are conjoined, default morphology is argued to play a role as agreement can be …
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An investigation into the aesthetic codes and strategies used within visual art to represent and construct space, time and movement
… score and the structure of the work, hue and markedness and the relationships between digital and tangible media. The research leads to two new kinds of work, the Chronopan and the Chronocyclograph. Reflection upon this work offers new insights into space and dimensionality, oppositions, the …
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