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COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONVERSATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
(2009)
The decisions of the United States Supreme Court have far-reaching implications in American life. Using transcripts of Supreme Court oral arguments this work looks at the conversational dynamics of Supreme Court justices ...
Fine-Grained Linguistic Soft Constraints on Statistical Natural Language Processing Models
(2009)
This dissertation focuses on effective combination of data-driven natural language processing (NLP) approaches with linguistic knowledge sources that are based on manual text annotation or word grouping according to semantic ...
Island repair and non-repair by PF strategies
(2009)
Since Ross (1967), it has been observed that there are configurations from which otherwise unbounded movement operations cannot occur, and they are called islands. Ellipsis and resumption are known to have a peculiar ...
Dimensions of Ellipsis: Investigations in Turkish
(2009)
This dissertation examines the elliptical structures of (a) sluicing (John called someone, but I don't know who!), (b) fragment answers (A: Who did John call?, B: Mary!), (c) gapping (John is eating ice-cream, and Mary ...
On The Way To Linguistic Representation: Neuromagnetic Evidence of Early Auditory Abstraction in the Perception of Speech and Pitch
(2009)
The goal of this dissertation is to show that even at the earliest (non-invasive) recordable stages of auditory cortical processing, we find evidence that cortex is calculating abstract representations from the acoustic ...
BEYOND STATISTICAL LEARNING IN THE ACQUISITION OF PHRASE STRUCTURE
(2009)
The notion that children use statistical distributions present in the input to acquire various aspects of linguistic knowledge has received considerable recent attention. But the roles of learner's initial state have been ...
Apologies in French: An Analysis of Remedial Discourse Strategies Used by L1 Speakers
(2009)
Speech act research has contributed much to our understanding of contextual L1 and L2 use in various languages. French, however remains largely ignored. The handful of studies that do exist are confined to a rather small ...
The predictive nature of language comprehension
(2009)
This dissertation explores the hypothesis that predictive processing--the access and construction of internal representations in advance of the external input that supports them--plays a central role in language comprehension. ...
Sawing the Air Thus: American Sign Language Translations of Shakespeare and the Echoes of Rhetorical Gesture
(2009)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) signed in1990 states that "no individual may be discriminated against on the basis of disability." The creation of anti-discrimination laws did not, however, legislate community ...
Grammatical Gender Representation and Processing in Advanced Second Language Learners of French
(2009)
One of the most difficult challenges of learning French as a foreign language is mastering the gender system. Although there are theories that account for how French native speakers (NSs) master their gender system, it is ...