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- BLACK ENGLISH FEATURES IN THE ENGLISH OF U.S. HISPANIC PRESCHOOL CHILDREN.
- Creator
- BELLI, GREGORY CHARLES, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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This study attempts to discover and quantify the extent to which selected Black English features are present in the English of a group of United States Hispanic Children in south Florida. The five features are /r,l/ simplification, consonant cluster simplification, past tense verb marker reduction, copula deletion, and inverted embedded questions. The best indicators of Black English influence in the young Hispanic children's English are found to be regular past tense verb endings, third...
Show moreThis study attempts to discover and quantify the extent to which selected Black English features are present in the English of a group of United States Hispanic Children in south Florida. The five features are /r,l/ simplification, consonant cluster simplification, past tense verb marker reduction, copula deletion, and inverted embedded questions. The best indicators of Black English influence in the young Hispanic children's English are found to be regular past tense verb endings, third person singular present tense forms of be, words containing a preconsonantal l, present tense plural forms of be, and an words containing voiced consonant clusters, respectively. A hierarchy of factors contributing to the overall Black English influence is constructed. Relevant literature is reviewed.
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- 1979
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13966
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE PREPARATION OF BEGINNING ENGLISH READING MATERIALS FOR MIKASUKI SPEAKERS.
- Creator
- KRUSE, KATRINA MARGUERITE., Florida Atlantic University, Trammell, Robert L., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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A sequence for materials in English beginning reading lessons is proposed for native speakers of Mikasuki. This sequence utilizes to the greatest possible extent the native linguistic background of Mikasuki-speaking students while including most of the skills taught to native English speakers in traditional materials. The presentation is based on two criteria: 1) an analysis of the phonological similarities and differences between Mikasuki and English, and 2) a linguistic approach to...
Show moreA sequence for materials in English beginning reading lessons is proposed for native speakers of Mikasuki. This sequence utilizes to the greatest possible extent the native linguistic background of Mikasuki-speaking students while including most of the skills taught to native English speakers in traditional materials. The presentation is based on two criteria: 1) an analysis of the phonological similarities and differences between Mikasuki and English, and 2) a linguistic approach to beginning reading instruction, which emphasizes the gradual and systematic introduction of regular sound-spelling patterns. Using these criteria it is possible to order the presentation of English phonemes and graphemes in terms of their predicted difficulty for the Mikasuki-speaking student. These are systematically presented to improve the Mikasuki-speaker's chances of establishing a, positive achievement base at each stage of the learning process.
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- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13699
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A DESCRIPTIVE PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SPANISH SPOKEN IN THE PROVINCE OF HAVANA, CUBA.
- Creator
- BERTOT, LILLIAN, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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The present study offers a series of observations based on extensive research into the phonology of the Spanish spoken in the province of Havana, Cuba. The phonemes for the province are determined, and special attention is given to allophonic variants peculiar to and/or characteristic of Havana. The allophonic variants are described in detail on articulatory and distributional criteria. There is a great deal of emphasis placed on the description of consonants. The vowels are also discussed....
Show moreThe present study offers a series of observations based on extensive research into the phonology of the Spanish spoken in the province of Havana, Cuba. The phonemes for the province are determined, and special attention is given to allophonic variants peculiar to and/or characteristic of Havana. The allophonic variants are described in detail on articulatory and distributional criteria. There is a great deal of emphasis placed on the description of consonants. The vowels are also discussed. There is no reference to suprasegmental phonological data. After the phonological studied is completed, the differences in the speech of socioeconomic groups are explained.
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- 1969
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13440
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Local contextual impenetrability of lexical access and gap-filling: A comparison of outcomes from cross-modal lexical priming and word-by-word reading tasks.
- Creator
- Lewis, James Robert, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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Contextual impenetrability is the measurable consequence of informational encapsulation, which is a key feature of input systems hypothesized to be modular. The data from the current psycholinguistic literature do not clearly converge on support for or refutation of the modularity hypothesis with regard to the existence of contextual impenetrability for lexical access and gap-filling. Most previous research has focused on the influence of global context on lexical access. The experiments in...
Show moreContextual impenetrability is the measurable consequence of informational encapsulation, which is a key feature of input systems hypothesized to be modular. The data from the current psycholinguistic literature do not clearly converge on support for or refutation of the modularity hypothesis with regard to the existence of contextual impenetrability for lexical access and gap-filling. Most previous research has focused on the influence of global context on lexical access. The experiments in this dissertation explore a more local context imposed by the argument structure and lexical conceptual structure of a verb on its direct object. The primary goal for this dissertation was to develop a set of test sentences appropriate for study with both cross-modal lexical priming and word-by-word reading to connect key experiments in the lexical access and gap-filling literature, then to determine if the outcomes supported or failed to support the existence of contextual impenetrability for lexical access and gap-filling. The outcomes of these experiments supported the hypothesis of contextual impenetrability for these linguistic operations. A secondary goal of this dissertation was to address recent criticisms of studies that have used cross-modal lexical priming to study the contextual impenetrability of gap-filling. The cross-modal lexical priming experiments in this dissertation demonstrated that it is unreasonable to attribute priming effects at hypothesized gap locations to artifacts such as hypothesized "continuation priming." The dissertation concludes with discussions of the implications of these results for two competing theories of mental structure (the modularity hypothesis and interactionist hypotheses) and recommendations for the appropriate interpretation of various experimental tasks and additional experiments.
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- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12483
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Contextual influences on real-time processing of linguistic stimuli: Traditional and dynamical approaches.
- Creator
- Raczaszek, Joanna, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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This work examines contextual influences on processing of linguistic stimuli. The traditional (symbolic) models of context influences are reviewed and their shortcomings pointed out. The dynamical approach, recently emerging in the area of behavioral sciences, is suggested as a viable alternative. Two studies follow. In the first one we use the case of perception of ambiguous sentences to show that perception of linguistic stimuli is the outcome of an underlying dynamical process. Thus it may...
Show moreThis work examines contextual influences on processing of linguistic stimuli. The traditional (symbolic) models of context influences are reviewed and their shortcomings pointed out. The dynamical approach, recently emerging in the area of behavioral sciences, is suggested as a viable alternative. Two studies follow. In the first one we use the case of perception of ambiguous sentences to show that perception of linguistic stimuli is the outcome of an underlying dynamical process. Thus it may be better described in dynamical terms, employing notions such as multistability and differential coherence of patterns, than in the traditional, symbolic framework. The second study is an on-line investigation of contextual adaptation. We studied general category names embedded in neutral or biasing sentential contexts. The results obtained indicate that the initial lexical access is context independent. The relative availability of particular members of category suggests that the initial state is best captured by a multistable representation, which may be essential for the flexibility of linguistic processing. Contextual adaptation seems to occur later in the unfolding sentence. A more detailed investigation into the timing and nature of contextual adaptation suggests that this adaptation takes the form of rapid reorganization of conceptual information rather than just facilitation of relevant category members. The results of the studies presented have implications both for dynamical and psycholinguistic approaches. The main implication for the dynamical approach is the importance of using on-line methods in studies of perception. Dynamical studies that use off-line methods perhaps miss an important stage of processing: a transition from locally invariant to contextually congruent organization of information. For psycholinguistics the characterization of language processing as pattern formation has at least three major advantages: (1) capturing the timing of the processes allows for including distinctions between fast/slow, linear/nonlinear processing, (2) conceptualization of the initially available lexical information as a constraint on possible meanings rather than meaning itself allows for accounting for apparently contradictory psycholinguistic data, (3) adding the dimension of stability of the patterns generated during language processing makes possible new predictions regarding speed and variability of performance on various psycholinguistic tasks.
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- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12434
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics, Psychology, Experimental
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- An examination of three competing hypotheses concerning the origin of the Indo-European language family.
- Creator
- Workman, Shannon Marie., Florida Atlantic University, Broadfield, Douglas C.
- Abstract/Description
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The thesis will examine three hypotheses which seek to explain the origin of the Indo-European language family. Each will be treated according to the following criteria: the specific data selected, how the data sets used in the hypotheses correlate to one another, the methodology used by the author(s), and how well the final conclusion correlates to the data. The thesis will also discuss how the Bantu and Romance languages spread. The mechanisms of dispersal of these two languages will be...
Show moreThe thesis will examine three hypotheses which seek to explain the origin of the Indo-European language family. Each will be treated according to the following criteria: the specific data selected, how the data sets used in the hypotheses correlate to one another, the methodology used by the author(s), and how well the final conclusion correlates to the data. The thesis will also discuss how the Bantu and Romance languages spread. The mechanisms of dispersal of these two languages will be examined and the supporting data will be compared to the mechanisms of dispersal and the supportive data of the three Indo-European hypotheses.
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- 2002
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12995
- Subject Headings
- Indo-European languages, Historical linguistics, Linguistic geography
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The effect of face-voice synchrony on infant allocation of visual attention.
- Creator
- Minar, Nicholas J., Hansen, Amy, Lewkowicz, David J., Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2011-04-08
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3165808
- Subject Headings
- Speech perception, Language acquisition, Prosodic analysis (Linguistics)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Parsing local ambiguities in syntactic structures: Prosodic influences.
- Creator
- Nagel, Harold Nicholas, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
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This project comprises a series of experiments investigating the role of prosody--the timing and intonation of an utterance--in syntactic disambiguation. Acoustic analyses isolated two parameters--main-clause verb segment and pause durations, and the pitch contour over the verb and the following phrase--that reliably predicted syntactic structure in two sets of temporarily ambiguous sentences. The manipulation of one of these parameters--verb and pause duration--resulted in increased...
Show moreThis project comprises a series of experiments investigating the role of prosody--the timing and intonation of an utterance--in syntactic disambiguation. Acoustic analyses isolated two parameters--main-clause verb segment and pause durations, and the pitch contour over the verb and the following phrase--that reliably predicted syntactic structure in two sets of temporarily ambiguous sentences. The manipulation of one of these parameters--verb and pause duration--resulted in increased processing load over the disambiguating region of sentences temporarily ambiguous between a direct object and an embedded clause syntactic structure (e.g., "John knew the answer by heart" vs. "John knew the answer was correct"). Also, differences in the prosodic contours associated with temporarily ambiguous "filler-gap" sentences determined whether or not a gap was posited during on-line sentence processing. These findings suggest that prosodic information is used early, perhaps immediately, to make informed on-line parsing decisions and support a model of sentence processing in which both lexical and prosodic information interact on-line to generate the syntactic representation of an utterance.
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- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12378
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics, Speech Communication, Psychology, Experimental
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- An analysis of negative and interrogative structures in the English of junior high school ESL students in a bilingual community.
- Creator
- Briggs, Susan Ellen, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis investigates the acqusition of certain negative and interrogative structures by adolescent Spanish-speaking ESL students in a bilingual community. These ESL learners demonstrated two unexpected negating strategies using not plus the verb and never plus the verb. They likewise used does/did as an overgeneralized question marker. Age of first exposure to English did not appear to be a significant factor in the acquisition of the English auxiliary, and the students' acquisition of...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the acqusition of certain negative and interrogative structures by adolescent Spanish-speaking ESL students in a bilingual community. These ESL learners demonstrated two unexpected negating strategies using not plus the verb and never plus the verb. They likewise used does/did as an overgeneralized question marker. Age of first exposure to English did not appear to be a significant factor in the acquisition of the English auxiliary, and the students' acquisition of negative and interrogative structures appeared to be delayed in this bilingual environment, despite ESL instruction.
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- 1988
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14438
- Subject Headings
- Education, Bilingual and Multicultural, Language, Linguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Learning to hear new speech sounds: A dynamical approach.
- Creator
- Case, Pamela S., Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
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When adults attempt to learn new speech sounds, they do so in the context of the phonology of their native language. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the nature of the learning process; that is, to examine, in individuals, (1) the process of acquiring a new phonetic category, (2) the impact of learning a new phonetic category on a similar, existing category, and (3) transfer of learning to a novel phonetic context. Monolingual American English speakers were required to learn...
Show moreWhen adults attempt to learn new speech sounds, they do so in the context of the phonology of their native language. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the nature of the learning process; that is, to examine, in individuals, (1) the process of acquiring a new phonetic category, (2) the impact of learning a new phonetic category on a similar, existing category, and (3) transfer of learning to a novel phonetic context. Monolingual American English speakers were required to learn the Hindi voiced, unaspirated, dental stop consonant. Two synthetic speech continua (one voiced, the other voiceless) were created, spanning a range from Hindi dental to American English alveolar stop consonants. Subjects underwent a perceptual mapping procedure that included identification, judged goodness, and difference-rating tasks in order to establish how they perceived the stimuli initially. Then they participated in a two-alternative, forced-choice training program using only voiced, natural speech stimuli. Progress was monitored throughout training. Following training, the mapping procedure was repeated with both the voiced and voiceless continua. After at least a two-week delay with no further training, subjects participated in a follow-up test. Results indicate that the nature of change during the learning process depends on how the individual listener perceives the stimuli prior to training and on the order of presentation of stimuli.
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- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12475
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics, Psychology, Experimental, Psychology, Cognitive
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The significance of old French manuscript evidence for seeking all sources of "The Romaunt of the Rose".
- Creator
- Balis, Nathaniel Cogswell, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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The search for all sources of The Romaunt of the Rose, the fourteenth-century English version of Le roman de la Rose, focuses on Geoffrey Chaucer. The authorship controversy is so divisive that prominent medievalists like Huot, Hult, Robertson, and Badel write long volumes on the Roman's influence without mentioning the Romaunt. Comparing Geissman's list of rime-borrowings with both poems' concordances is the only way to end the debate, because Chaucer is the likeliest author and one must...
Show moreThe search for all sources of The Romaunt of the Rose, the fourteenth-century English version of Le roman de la Rose, focuses on Geoffrey Chaucer. The authorship controversy is so divisive that prominent medievalists like Huot, Hult, Robertson, and Badel write long volumes on the Roman's influence without mentioning the Romaunt. Comparing Geissman's list of rime-borrowings with both poems' concordances is the only way to end the debate, because Chaucer is the likeliest author and one must start with the most compatible French and English texts. At present, the best way to test Geoffrey Chaucer's authorship of the Middle English Romaunt is through close examination of the French rime-borrowings most orthoepically comparable in both languages that the Middle English writer occasionally chose to translate rather than borrow. This selective borrowing suggests the translator's attempt to bring each term slowly into the English mainstream, by using it at first only in its literal sense.
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- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15032
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics, Literature, Comparative, Literature, Medieval
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The dilemma of the language-minority stud.
- Creator
- Ruiz, Maegan, Galin, Jeffrey R., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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If we define language fluency as more than simply a way of speaking, but also a way of thinking, acting, and being, then we enter a conversation of language as ‘Discourse’ that was sparked by James Paul Gee. This conversation invokes discrete designations of Discourse as home-based, school-based, dominant, and non-dominant. These designations reveal divisions between Discourses that are believed to manifest themselves in the identity formation of ‘language-minority students:’ those whose home...
Show moreIf we define language fluency as more than simply a way of speaking, but also a way of thinking, acting, and being, then we enter a conversation of language as ‘Discourse’ that was sparked by James Paul Gee. This conversation invokes discrete designations of Discourse as home-based, school-based, dominant, and non-dominant. These designations reveal divisions between Discourses that are believed to manifest themselves in the identity formation of ‘language-minority students:’ those whose home Discourse is non-dominant. The dominant Discourse that these students encounter in school generates two documented paths: Richard Hoggart’s scholarship boy and Herbert Kohl’s not-learner; both paths reflect the limited agency of these students within academia. In order to counteract this delimiting of student agency, this project proposes a progressive shift towards a post-modern conception of identity formation; this can be accomplished by opening the Composition classroom to student authored, non-traditional, ‘hybridized’ Discourses.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004053
- Subject Headings
- Discourse analysis, Language and education, Language and languages -- Variation, Linguistic minorities -- Education, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- First language attrition of Colombian Spanish speakers in south Florida.
- Creator
- Gonzalez, Gwynne., Florida Atlantic University, DuBravac, Stayc
- Abstract/Description
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This research study compares the use of the Spanish preterite and imperfect forms of stative verbs between native Spanish speakers in an L1 Spanish environment (E1) with L1 Spanish speakers in an L2 English environment (E2). The study specifically targets subjects' Spanish L1 attrition of these verb forms in an English L2 environment by eliciting their use in an informal interview.
- Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13378
- Subject Headings
- Language attrition--Florida., Linguistic minorities--Florida., Language obsolescence., Immigrants--Language--Florida.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Prognosis and health management communications quality of service.
- Creator
- Tavtilov, Timur, Cardei, Ionut E., Graduate College
- Date Issued
- 2011-04-08
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164701
- Subject Headings
- Ocean energy resources, Computational linguistics, XML (Document markup language)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Syllable structure and stress effects on articulatory coordination.
- Creator
- Gleason, Philip Lawrence, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
- Abstract/Description
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Two experiments are reported, both dealing with syllable affiliation of a consonant. The first experiment extends the work of Tuller and Kelso (1990) and was designed to capture the signatures of loss of stability in a dynamical system (enhanced fluctuations and critical slowing). An Articulograph device (Carstens Medizinelektronik GmbH.) was used to track the movements of the tongue tip, the lower lip, and the jaw in the midsagittal plane while the subjects spoke a VCC word in time to an...
Show moreTwo experiments are reported, both dealing with syllable affiliation of a consonant. The first experiment extends the work of Tuller and Kelso (1990) and was designed to capture the signatures of loss of stability in a dynamical system (enhanced fluctuations and critical slowing). An Articulograph device (Carstens Medizinelektronik GmbH.) was used to track the movements of the tongue tip, the lower lip, and the jaw in the midsagittal plane while the subjects spoke a VCC word in time to an auditory metronome at a slowly increasing rate. A clear transition occurred in the phonetics (VCC -> CVC) as judged by a phonetically trained listener, and the transition in phonetics corresponded to a change in the relative phase between the tongue tip and the lower lip and between the tongue tip and jaw. The transition was accompanied by both enhanced fluctuations and critical slowing for subjects who complied with the metronome. The second experiment examined syllable affiliation in natural English phrases with contrasting metrical structures. The phonemes /s/, /t/ and /k/, were used, and the tongue tip, tongue blade, and jaw were recorded by the Articulograph device. Consistent relative timing of the consonant movement in relation to vowel movement was observed, thus supporting the position that syllable affiliation is expressed as distinct phase values in natural speech as well as reiterated speech. In addition, the evidence supports the view that the syllable is an organizational unit of speech in English.
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- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12591
- Subject Headings
- Language, Linguistics, Psychology, Psychobiology, Psychology, Experimental, Psychology, Personality
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Arabic Dialectology and the Influence of Coptic on Egyptian Arabic.
- Creator
- Soliman, Mary, Trammell, Robert L., Florida Atlantic University
- Abstract/Description
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The Arabic language includes many dialects that differ considerably from one another. In fact, they differ in almost every linguistic category : syntax, morphology, phonology, style and the lexicon. Written and spoken varieties also differ greatly , which is why Arabic is a prime example of diglossia within a single language. The dialects of Arabic were influenced by languages spoken previously in those regions. In addition, written Arabic has remained syntactically, morphologically and...
Show moreThe Arabic language includes many dialects that differ considerably from one another. In fact, they differ in almost every linguistic category : syntax, morphology, phonology, style and the lexicon. Written and spoken varieties also differ greatly , which is why Arabic is a prime example of diglossia within a single language. The dialects of Arabic were influenced by languages spoken previously in those regions. In addition, written Arabic has remained syntactically, morphologically and phonologically essentially unchanged for over a millennium. The spoken varieties, however, have evolved freely. This thesis will describe some of the differences that exist between these dialects and it will demonstrate that some of these differences are a result of the influence of substratum languages on Arabic. In particular, it will focus on the influence of Coptic on Egyptian Arabic.
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- 2007
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000965
- Subject Headings
- Diglossia (Linguistics)--Egypt, Sociolinguistics--Egypt, Arabic language--Etymology, Linguistics--Arab countries
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF PAPIAMENTO AND SPANISH VERBS, AND SOME THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF PAPIAMENTO (ANTILLES, CREOLE).
- Creator
- QUINN, ROBERT ANTHONY., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
- Abstract/Description
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The first chapter of this thesis examines the influences of Spanish and Portuguese on the development of Papiamento, and concludes that Papiamento is most likely of Afro-Portuguese origin. The influence of Spanish, however, has grown steadily and to such an extent that Papiamento, regardless of its origin, has definitely become a Spanish creole. A contrastive analysis of the internal constituents of Papiamento and Spanish verb phrases, constituting the principal objective of this thesis, is...
Show moreThe first chapter of this thesis examines the influences of Spanish and Portuguese on the development of Papiamento, and concludes that Papiamento is most likely of Afro-Portuguese origin. The influence of Spanish, however, has grown steadily and to such an extent that Papiamento, regardless of its origin, has definitely become a Spanish creole. A contrastive analysis of the internal constituents of Papiamento and Spanish verb phrases, constituting the principal objective of this thesis, is presented in chapter two. Points of conflict and agreement in the formation of verb constructions in the two languages are emphasized in the course of the contrastive analysis, and the salient points are summarized in charts. The last part of the the sis consists o f a thematic index of works on Papiamento and a linguistic bibliography.
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- 1971
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13463
- Subject Headings
- Papiamentu language, Comparative linguistics, Spanish language--Verb, Creole dialects, Dutch--Netherlands Antilles
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Language separation and intermingling in young children's bilingual environments and their effects on children's dual language development and use.
- Creator
- Place, Silvia., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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The current study addressed several questions about the use of language intermingling in child-directed speech and its influence on children's English and Spanish language acquisition on children's language code-switching, Participants were 65 children (Mean age=30.93 months, SD=0.44, 28 boys and 37 girls) who had been exposed to English and Spanish from birth and for whom at least one parent was a native Spanish speaker.... Measures of the children's lexical, grammatical, receptive, and...
Show moreThe current study addressed several questions about the use of language intermingling in child-directed speech and its influence on children's English and Spanish language acquisition on children's language code-switching, Participants were 65 children (Mean age=30.93 months, SD=0.44, 28 boys and 37 girls) who had been exposed to English and Spanish from birth and for whom at least one parent was a native Spanish speaker.... Measures of the children's lexical, grammatical, receptive, and productive language development in English and in Spanish were collected concurrently.... Consistent with sociolinguistic theories that propose that language separation is necessary for heritage language maintenance, children who were exposed to more language intermingling were more English-dominant. Both sensitivity to the language context and children's language dominance were related to children's production of mixed utterances. Children code-switched more when speaking in their less proficient language and when in the context of minority language use.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355870
- Subject Headings
- Language arts (Early childhood), Language acquisition, Parent participation, Hispanic American families, Language, Bilingualism in children, Code switching (Linguistics), Sociolinguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The modeling of an ecology of language: Haitian Creole among first and second generation Haitian college students.
- Creator
- Kepley, Kristyl Williams., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this research study was to identify and define important components that might constitute an ecology of language (Mufwene 2001; Haugen 1972). Focusing on components as varied as social networks, physical ecology, identity and linguistic realities allowed for the construction of such a model, which was then applied to a specific case study addressing the vitality of Haitian Creole among first and second generation Haitian college students in South Florida. The resulting ecology...
Show moreThe purpose of this research study was to identify and define important components that might constitute an ecology of language (Mufwene 2001; Haugen 1972). Focusing on components as varied as social networks, physical ecology, identity and linguistic realities allowed for the construction of such a model, which was then applied to a specific case study addressing the vitality of Haitian Creole among first and second generation Haitian college students in South Florida. The resulting ecology of language model demonstrates that the competition and selection pressures guiding language use among first and second generation Haitian college students hinge on two ecological factors: the survey respondents' level of American acculturation and their desire to be involved in or affiliated with a separate subgroup of Haitians. The study found that (1) the reported language behavior of parents had no correlations with the respondents' interest in affiliating with other Haitians, and (2) Haitia n college students who do identify strongly with Haitian culture do not necessarily equate that cultural identity with the Haitian Creole language. These results suggest, in contrast to the claims of Zephir (2001), that Haitian college students will acculturate quickly into American linguistic society despite their desire to maintain the hyphenated identity of Haitian-American. Additionally, many of the conditions which are noted in the language endangerment literature (Grenoble & Whaley1998; Nettle & Romaine 2000; Crystal 2000) pointing towards language loss are occurring within the Haitian college community in South Florida. Despite the fact Haitian college students in South Florida all have positive attitudes towards Haitian culture and language, the respondents prefer to speak English rather than Haitian Creole. As is the case with other minority languages (Potowski 2010), it can be predicted that Haitian Creole will maintain its integrity and vitality in America continued, immigration.
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- 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3332252
- Subject Headings
- Languages in contact, Social ecology, English language, Study and teaching, Creole speakers, Language attrition, Haitians, Languages, Linguistic minorities, Ecolinguistics
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Bilingual Sentiment Analysis of Spanglish Tweets.
- Creator
- Serrano, Melissa, Shankar, Ravi, Florida Atlantic University, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Abstract/Description
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Sentiment Analysis has been researched in a variety of contexts but in this thesis, the focus is on sentiment analysis in Twitter, which poses its own unique challenges such as the use of slang, abbreviations, emoticons, hashtags, and user mentions. The 140-character restriction on the length of tweets can also lead to text that is difficult even for a human to determine its sentiment. Specifically, this study will analyze sentiment analysis of bilingual (U.S. English and Spanish language)...
Show moreSentiment Analysis has been researched in a variety of contexts but in this thesis, the focus is on sentiment analysis in Twitter, which poses its own unique challenges such as the use of slang, abbreviations, emoticons, hashtags, and user mentions. The 140-character restriction on the length of tweets can also lead to text that is difficult even for a human to determine its sentiment. Specifically, this study will analyze sentiment analysis of bilingual (U.S. English and Spanish language) Tweets. The hypothesis here is that Bilingual sentiment analysis is more accurate than sentiment analysis in a single language (English or Spanish) when analyzing bilingual tweets. In general, currently sentiment analysis in bilingual tweets is done against an English dictionary. For each of the test cases in this thesis’ experiment we will use the Python NLTK sentiment package.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004877, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004877
- Subject Headings
- Twitter., Online social networks., Connotation (Linguistics), Mass media--Audiences., Spanish language--Usage.
- Format
- Document (PDF)