This dissertation demonstrates a framework for incremental model selection and processing of highly variant speech transcripts and user-generated text. The system reduces natural language processing (NLP) ambiguity by segmenting text by domain, allowing for domain-specific downs…
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Morpho-syntactic features of Modern Standard Arabic mix intricately with those of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic in ordinary speech. I study the lexical, phonological and syntactic features of verb phrase morphemes and constituents in different tenses, aspects, moods. A corpus of ov…
The present work has three main goals. Its first goal is simply to describe the language contact phenomena (LCP) occurring in a corpus of conversations among bilingual West Tarangan (WT) speakers of Dobo town in the Aru islands of southeast Maluku, Indonesia. The corpus consists…
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the use of language alternation and the role it played in four ESP (English for Specific Purposes) classrooms at the College of Business Studies (CBS) in Kuwait, with special reference to the Business English courses taught i…
The present study aims at examining the correlation between multilingualism and the construction of social identity in Dakar (Senegal). More specifically it studies how the inhabitants of Dakar construct social identities in relation to the languages they speak. I will try to de…
This qualitative study explored and examined patterns of language choice and codeswitching (hereafter CS) behavior and their relation to the acculturation process of six Iranian female adults, ages 26-54, living in the US. All had left Iran as a result of the 1979 Islamic Revolu…
This study examined the language situation in the religious discourse in Egypt. It investigated the switch from Classical Arabic to Egyptian Arabic in the religious domain in one of the most renowned preachers in Egypt, Amr Khaled. In order to investigate the phenomenon, I chose…
The historical nature of language contact between French and Arabic in Algeria has created a sociolinguistic situation in which French is permeated throughout Algerian society. The prevalence and use of spoken French in Algeria by native speakers of Spoken Algerian Arabic has be…
The early cessation of the mother tongue (MT) and early introduction of English in Nigeria's classrooms may cause children to perform poorly if they lack mastery of skills in either language. The use of English as a medium of instruction in an elementary school where students sp…
This paper investigates language/topic priming in utterances of non-immigrant bilingual Libyan children who live in the US, and who have acquired English after they arrived there at the ages from 2 to 7. Data were collected from 16 children who come from non-immigrant families a…
This study investigates experiences in the learning of Swahili across two university programs in African studies, one in Dar es Salaam, and the other in Mexico City, with the goal of understanding how emerging social identities intersect with institutional language policies in t…
Codeswitching (CS) between Standard Arabic (SA) and Dialectal Arabic (DA) is a characteristic feature of Arabic bidialectal speech in a number of contexts. This dissertation focuses on two aspects related to this phenomenon, namely, its syntactic structure and its social functio…
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the formal constraints on Arabic/English code-switching in light of the Matrix Language Frame Model and its sub-models the 4-M model and the Abstract Level model. This study focused on two main goals: (1) studying the formal co…
The primary purpose of this study is to demonstrate how Saudi-spoken Arabic and English code-switching fits into the established point of view on the systematicity and rule-governed nature of code-switching, and to relate the apparent systematicity to current linguistic theory. …