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…
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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…
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…
In this dissertation, I investigate the phonology, phonetics, and historical development of Santa María Gueinagati Zapotec (GZ), an Otomanguean language spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. My description of the phonology of GZ focuses of the contrasts the occur in the root, which, in its …
The subject of this dissertation is the Lun Bawang language (also called Lundayeh, and formerly also Murut), and in particular the Kemaloh dialect thereof, spoken principally in highland Borneo in the area near, and on all sides of, the borders dividing Malaysia’s Sarawak and Sa…
This is a reference grammar of Enxet Sur, an indigenous language of the Paraguayan Gran Chaco, and one of six recognized languages in the Enlhet-Enenlhet (EE, or Mascoyan) language family. This is the first comprehensive grammatical description of a language in the Enlhet-Enenlh…
This thesis examines an understudied nasalization rule in Hoocąk, an endangered Siouan language, whereby the alveolar flap becomes nasalized after nasal vowels. Impressionistic descriptions suggest that this has developed in two ways over time: (1) the output was [ɾ͂] but is not …
The main objective of this dissertation is to describe the way the foreigner is linguistically represented in classical Egyptian cinema from its beginning in the 1920s to the mid-1960s and, hence, to determine to what extent this representation is stereotyped. To show this, I ca…
This thesis is a grammatical description of Dela (ISO 639-3:row), an Austronesian language of western Rote, eastern Indonesia, spoken by approximately 11,000 native speakers. The grammar describes and discusses issues from the phonology of the language to its discourse structure.
This dissertation presents in-depth description and analysis the Zophei sound system within the context of the closely-related Maraic languages. Zophei (or Zyphe, ISO 639-3 ZYP), a previously undocumented member of the Maraic branch of Kuki-Chin (or South-Central Tibeto-Burman) …
This thesis presents aspects of handshapes in Afghan Sign Language [afg]. Afghan Sign Language is a Deaf sign language found in Afghanistan (Lewis, Simons, and Fennig 2014). Signs in Afghan Sign Language contrast based on the handshape parameter. Furthermore, handshapes contrast…