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Non-native speaker attitudes toward non-native English accents
The increasing number of proficient, non-native English speakers, both in U.S. academic institutions and around the globe, warrants considerable investigation into possible norms developing within non-native to non-native interactions. This report analyzes attitudes toward accent, a prominent …
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(non)native Speakering: The (dis)invention Of (non)native Speakered Subjectivities In A Graduate Teacher Education Program
Despite its imprecision, the native-nonnative dichotomy has become the dominant paradigm for categorizing language users, learners, and educators. The “NNEST Movement” has been instrumental in documenting the privilege of native speakers, the marginalization of their nonnative counterparts, and why …
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Non-Native Grounds: Jewish Writers In American Empire
This dissertation examines the way Jewish writers around the period of mass migration to the U.S. (1881-1924) reflected on the imperial politics of the country they were entering. It consists of contextualized analyses of the works of seven Jewish writers: Emma Lazarus, Israel Zangwill, Abraham …
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Common Difficulties in English for Non-Native Speakers
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7310019.pdf: 7855862 bytes, checksum: 6752500396268d5a7052bf382d246c1f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Non-Native Production of Arabic Pharyngeal and Pharyngealized Consonants
… on the production of pharyngealized versus non-pharyngealized consonants; pharyngeals versus non-pharyngeals; pharyngeal versus pharyngealized sounds; intra-category differences among the target consonants; and pharyngeal and pharyngealized consonants which differ in the adjacent vowel. The …
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Detection of non-native freshwater fishes using environmental DNA
Invasive non-native species are a serious conservation threat, and management to mitigate their impact depends on accurate survey methods. Early detection enables a rapid response while an invader is still localised. Recently, environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques, based on detection from DNA present …
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Text readability and summarisation for non-native reading comprehension
This thesis focuses on two important aspects of non-native reading comprehension: text readability assessment, which estimates the reading difficulty of a given text for L2 learners, and learner summarisation assessment, which evaluates the quality of learner summaries to assess their reading …
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Non-native perception, production, and lexical processing of tone
… in the ease with which they learn tone in a non-native language. I examine the extent to which individual variability in tone learning facility depends on factors attributable to a learner’s first language, namely the function of pitch for lexical distinctions (‘L1 tonal status’) and the …
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Ecological consequences of non-native parasites for native UK fishes.
Introductions of non-native species can result in the release of their parasites. Although the majority of parasites are lost during the introduction process, those that do get released can spill over to native species and potentially result in pathological, physiological and ecological impacts. …
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Native Speakers' Reactions to Non -Native Stress in English Discourse
… evidence supporting the general hypothesis that native speakers process, understand, and respond more positively to non-native English speech when primary stress is used correctly compared to when it is not. Practical implications include suggestions for incorporating the teaching of English …
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The count/mass distinction in native and non-native grammar
… by first language (L1) transfer from their native language or are instead affected by semantic universals in L2 acquisition of the count/mass distinction. Furthermore, this dissertation also examines how similarly/differently L2-learners behave in online and offline tasks regarding the …
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Automatic correction of grammatical errors in non-native English text
… of grammatical errors in texts written by non-native speakers. This dissertation concerns the correction of non-native grammatical errors in English text, and the closely related task of generating test items for language learning, using a combination of statistical and linguistic methods. …
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Pragmatic Competence and Transferability: Native and Non-Native Speakers of Portuguese
… question the current view of the relevance of ""native speaker competence"" in second language acquisition literature. The study points out the implications of the coexistence of two or more language systems in a speaker's mind and their influence on his/her sociocultural values and …
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Third position responses in French native and non native-speaker interaction
… analytic methodology to understand how French native speakers and non-native speakers produce third position responses (i.e., question-answer-follow up responses) in a sequence of talk. Specifically, the first part of the project focuses on how French native speakers produce third position …
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Native and Non-native Grammars of Chinese Gapping-like Verb Ellipsis
… which bear a surface resemblance to English canonical gapping constructions. Despite the surface similarities shared by Chinese gapping-like constructions and English canonical gapping, the two verb-less constructions derive from different syntactic representations, which is reflected in their …
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Analysis and modeling of non-native speech for automatic speech recognition
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Exploring Metacognitive Online Reading Strategies of Non-Native English-Speaking Translation Students
… reading strategies employed by highly proficient non-native English-speaking graduate students of Translation, Interpretation and Language Education at Middlebury Institute of International Studies to find out the types of reading strategies students report using, and how they use them when …
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Non-Native Leaf Litter Modifies Algal Resources with Effects on Tadpole Growth
… as a cross-boundary subsidy. The invasion of non-native plant species into forests can alter aquatic resources. I investigated the effects of non-native leaf litter species on algal resources and green frog, <em>Lithobates clamitans</em>, development using a randomized complete block …
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