S. E. Israel

The purpose of this study was to understand the differences of conscious constructive responses and shifting strategies with the goal of understanding reading comprehension while reading nonfiction, fiction, and poetry texts. This naturalistic diagnostic study uses a think-aloud…

This dissertation provides a diachronic analysis of the functional contrast between varieties of Low and High German from roughly 1500-1840 in the context of the shift to High German. The shift preceded rapidly over several decades at the written level, as North Germans abandone…