Bir toplumu meydana getiren insanlar aynı zamanda ortak bir kültür de oluştururlar. Bu kültürün hem bir unsuru hem de taşıyıcısı dildir. Bu yüzden, dil bir milletin kimlik ve kültürünün çok önemli bir simgesidir. Geçmişten bu yana birçok medeniyete ev sahipliği yapmış olan Anado…
This dissertation examines how lexical tone can be represented with articulatory gestures, and the ways a gestural perspective can inform synchronic and diachronic analysis of the phonology and phonetics of a language. Tibetan is chosen an example of a language with interacting …
To date, no convincing explanation of the historical development of the internal passive verbs of Semitic has been proposed. This dissertation avoids obstacles that have impeded previous scholarship by viewing them in their broad relational context of detransitive stems more gen…
This study investigates adolescents' use of standard English in situations requiring careful speech. An account is given of the historical, political, linguistic and educational development of the concept of standard English, with particular emphasis on spoken standard English. …
This dissertation examines the grammar of a dialect of Kerinci spoken in the village of Tanjung Pauh Mudik. Kerinci is a Malayic language spoken primarily in the Kerinci Regency, in the mountainous western part of Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. In many Kerinci dialects, lex…
This thesis has two broad goals. The first is to contribute to the study of Arabic phonology particularly syllable structure and syllabification. This will be achieved through examining phenomena related to syllable structure and syllabic weight such as syllabification, stress a…
This thesis examines evolution in the phonology of Guernesiais, the endangered variety of Norman French indigenous to the Channel Island of Guernsey. It identifies ways in which modern Guernesiais phonology differs from previous descriptions of the variety written between 1870 a…
Providing a clear introduction to the sounds of German, designed particularly for English-speaking students of the language, this book covers topics including the role of the organs of speech, the state of the vocal cords and the differences between vowels and consonants.
A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current th…
This book contains some of the material which originally appeared in my Ph. D. thesis Lexical Phonology, submitted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but it can hardly be called a revised version of the thesis. The theory that I propose here is in many ways radically …
The theory of Lexical Phonology as Mohanan outlines it has its .roots in the tradition of both SPE phonology and classical phonemics. The central question addressed concerns the nature of the relation between phonological, morphological and syntactic processes. In Lexical Phonol…
O presente Relatório de Estágio apresenta-se como um documento que pretende refletir, criticamente, acerca da prática educativa realizada pela mestranda nos diferentes contextos educativos em que se encontrou, no âmbito da componente de Estágio da Unidade Curricular de Prática d…
Long-term contact between Hindi and Marathi in Nagpur, India has led to extensive transfer of linguistic features in both directions (Hindi to Marathi and Marathi to Hindi), leading to the formation of two contact varieties, Nagpuri Hindi and Nagpuri Marathi. This thesis investi…
Purpose : The purpose of this study is to explore the phonological development of Spanish-speaking preschoolers who are acquiring African American English (AAE) in North Carolina (NC). Understanding the phonological structure of the Spanish-AAE language combination will improve …
This dissertation develops a cognitive model describing when children learn to group distinct sound segments (allophones) into abstract equivalence classes (phonemes). The allophones an individual acquires are arbitrary and determined by their particular input, yet are intricate…