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Title: THE EFFECTS OF SPEAKING STYLE ON VOWEL SPACE AND LONG-TERM FORMANT DISTRIBUTIONS.
Creator: Garlitz, Rylen William, Kharlamov, Viktor, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This thesis analyzed the effects of speaking style, either read or spontaneous speech, on vowel spaces and long-term formant distributions (LTFD), alongside other sociolinguistic effects (sex and age). The results indicated that formant frequencies were indeed modulated by speaking style, with vowel spaces showing centralization during spontaneous speech compared to read speech. LTFD showed an increase in frequency during spontaneous speech over read speech, particularly in the third long...
Show moreThis thesis analyzed the effects of speaking style, either read or spontaneous speech, on vowel spaces and long-term formant distributions (LTFD), alongside other sociolinguistic effects (sex and age). The results indicated that formant frequencies were indeed modulated by speaking style, with vowel spaces showing centralization during spontaneous speech compared to read speech. LTFD showed an increase in frequency during spontaneous speech over read speech, particularly in the third long-term formant (LTF3). Sex and age were both significant factors for both vowel space and LTFD, with males and older speakers producing lower frequencies. The examination of the effect of speech style, sex and age on vowel space and LTFD allows us to better understand the factors that play a role in speech production.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014134
Subject Headings: Prosodic analysis (Linguistics), Linguistics
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Title: Manner Saliency and Linguistic Relativity: Verbal and Non-Verbal Experiments with Spanish-English Bilinguals.
Creator: Selecter, Spencer G., Hamilton, Michael, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Talmy (2007) was the first to propose a language typology based on the lexicalization patterns of motion verbs. According to his typology, certain languages tend to encode certain elements within the main verb of motion event descriptions. It has been proposed that Spanish and English exist on opposites sides of this typology and Slobin (1996 & 2006) speculates these structural differences may affect what aspects of external events are more salient to speakers of these languages. The present...
Show moreTalmy (2007) was the first to propose a language typology based on the lexicalization patterns of motion verbs. According to his typology, certain languages tend to encode certain elements within the main verb of motion event descriptions. It has been proposed that Spanish and English exist on opposites sides of this typology and Slobin (1996 & 2006) speculates these structural differences may affect what aspects of external events are more salient to speakers of these languages. The present study investigates the verbal and nonverbal behavior of English monolinguals and Spanish-English bilinguals to see if any differences exist in the aspects of the motion event that they describe in an elicitation task or prefer in a similarity judgement task. This study provides evidence that Spanish-English bilinguals may be less likely to encode manner when speaking in English. The present study provides no evidence that this extends to nonverbal behavior as all groups showed a preference for categorizing motion events based on the manner (e.g., run, walk, crawl, etc.) of motion rather than the path (up, down, left, right, etc.).
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014159
Subject Headings: Bilingualism, Typology (Linguistics), Linguistics
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Title: 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: 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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Date Issued: 1979
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13966
Subject Headings: Language, Linguistics
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Title: PROPAGANDA AND THE FIXED CHOICE POINT OF VIEW.
Creator: FARNSWORTH, ROBIN JOY., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description: Various approaches have been taken toward the study of language. Prescriptive and descriptive approaches have been the most common, both assuming a set of natural language rules. The Fixed Choice point of view, evolving out of the descriptive approach, questions the nature of language rules and discovers, through the study of the word, classic, that this new point of view is also the point of view of the propagandist.
Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14093
Subject Headings: Linguistic change.
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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: 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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Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13699
Subject Headings: Language, Linguistics
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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: 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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Date Issued: 1969
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13440
Subject Headings: Language, Linguistics
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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: 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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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12483
Subject Headings: Language, Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive
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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: 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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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12434
Subject Headings: Language, Linguistics, Psychology, Experimental
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Title: LEXICAL OBSOLESCENCE IN LATE MIDDLE ENGLISH: A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC INVESTIGATION.
Creator: Harrison, Rachel L., Leeds, John C., Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Lexical obsolescence is a topic whose study spans centuries, and yet it is not well-understood. Variously termed lexical mortality, lexical death, and lexical loss, among other names, the phenomenon has been described as both a product and a process, but the scholarship on how and why expressions go out of use has, until recently, been sporadic and sparse. The last few years have seen attempts to situate obsolescence among other processes of language change, but these have mostly focused on...
Show moreLexical obsolescence is a topic whose study spans centuries, and yet it is not well-understood. Variously termed lexical mortality, lexical death, and lexical loss, among other names, the phenomenon has been described as both a product and a process, but the scholarship on how and why expressions go out of use has, until recently, been sporadic and sparse. The last few years have seen attempts to situate obsolescence among other processes of language change, but these have mostly focused on obsolescing constructions in modern languages. The present study, by contrast, investigates words that went obsolete in Late Middle English, suggesting a methodological approach designed to overcome the challenge of finding that which is no longer there, namely the consultation of a comprehensive online historical dictionary, and proposing an explanatory framework within the tradition of onomasiology and semasiology that positions obsolescence as a diachronic result of the habitual and contextually driven corporate deselection of linguistic constructions.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014218
Subject Headings: Onomasiology, Semantics, Linguistics
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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: 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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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12995
Subject Headings: Indo-European languages, Historical linguistics, Linguistic geography
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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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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
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12378
Subject Headings: Language, Linguistics, Speech Communication, Psychology, Experimental
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Title: A SURVEY OF CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS AND ERROR ANALYSIS.
Creator: ROGERS, WENDEE OLIVIA SMITH., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: This thesis presents an overview of the paths taken by the proponents of contrastive analysis and error analysis, addressing specific positions held and studies done in these two areas of linguistics. A brief historical survey of linguistics, learning theories, and teaching strategies is given, dating from pre-structuralism through to poststructuralism. Following a discussion of contrastive analysis and its influence on the development of error analysis, the merits of interlanguage are...
Show moreThis thesis presents an overview of the paths taken by the proponents of contrastive analysis and error analysis, addressing specific positions held and studies done in these two areas of linguistics. A brief historical survey of linguistics, learning theories, and teaching strategies is given, dating from pre-structuralism through to poststructuralism. Following a discussion of contrastive analysis and its influence on the development of error analysis, the merits of interlanguage are discussed for the purpose of demonstrating its very vital contributions to the field of second-language learning.
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Date Issued: 1980
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14015
Subject Headings: Contrastive linguistics, Grammar, Comparative and general
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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: 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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Date Issued: 1988
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14438
Subject Headings: Education, Bilingual and Multicultural, Language, Linguistics
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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
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12475
Subject Headings: Language, Linguistics, Psychology, Experimental, Psychology, Cognitive
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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: 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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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15032
Subject Headings: Language, Linguistics, Literature, Comparative, Literature, Medieval
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Title: No bones about it (or are there?): evaluating markedness constraints on structural representations of the phonology skeleton.
Creator: Causey, Kayla B., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Linguistic research suggests that speakers represent syllable structure by a CV-frame. CVC syllables are more frequent than VCC ones. Further, the presence of VCC syllables in a language asymmetrically implies the presence of CVC syllables. These typological facts may reflect grammatical constraints. Alternatively, people's preferences may be due solely to their sensitivity to the statistical properties of sound combinations in their language. I demonstrate that participants in an auditory...
Show moreLinguistic research suggests that speakers represent syllable structure by a CV-frame. CVC syllables are more frequent than VCC ones. Further, the presence of VCC syllables in a language asymmetrically implies the presence of CVC syllables. These typological facts may reflect grammatical constraints. Alternatively, people's preferences may be due solely to their sensitivity to the statistical properties of sound combinations in their language. I demonstrate that participants in an auditory lexical decision task reject VCC nonwords faster than CVC nonwords, suggesting that the marked VCC syllables are dispreferred relative to CVC syllables. In a second experiment, I show that people are also sensitive to the distribution of these frames in the experiment. Findings indicate that syllable structure is represented at the phonological level, that individuals have preferences for certain syllables, and that these preferences can not be accounted for by the statistical properties of the stimuli.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/166449
Subject Headings: Grammar, Comparative and general, Phonology, Phonetics, Computational linguistics, Universals (Linguistics), Learning, Psychology of
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Title: Arabic Dialectology and the Influence of Coptic on Egyptian Arabic.
Creator: Soliman, Mary, Trammell, Robert L., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: 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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Date Issued: 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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Title: Now you hear it, now you don't: The effect of markedness on the perception of unattested clusters.
Creator: Lennertz, Tracy J., Florida Atlantic University, Berent, Iris, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description: Linguistic theory predicts that speakers are equipped with universal sonority principles that restrict the structure of the syllable: onset clusters with sonority rises are preferred to onsets with plateaus, which are preferred to onsets with falling sonority (bn > bd > lb). We investigate the source of this preference in English, a language in which these sonority profiles are unattested. We gauged speakers' preferences for unattested onsets by examining their susceptibility to epenthetic...
Show moreLinguistic theory predicts that speakers are equipped with universal sonority principles that restrict the structure of the syllable: onset clusters with sonority rises are preferred to onsets with plateaus, which are preferred to onsets with falling sonority (bn > bd > lb). We investigate the source of this preference in English, a language in which these sonority profiles are unattested. We gauged speakers' preferences for unattested onsets by examining their susceptibility to epenthetic repair. If English speakers are sensitive to onset structure, then onsets that are universally dispreferred should be more likely to elicit repair (e.g., lbif→lebif). Results from a syllable judgment task and an identity task support our predictions: onsets of rising sonority are perceived more accurately compared to onsets with sonority plateaus, which, in turn, are perceived more accurately compared to onsets with sonority falls. Our findings suggest that speakers are equipped with phonological preferences for sonority profiles that are unattested in their language.
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Date Issued: 2006
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13392
Subject Headings: Markedness (Linguistics), Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology, Tone (Phonetics), Lexical phonology, Optimality theory (Linguistics)
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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)
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