• Bridging the gap: a study of academic language-learning needs of Saudi international students 

  Alkutbi, Douaa (2018-10-01)

  Using quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, the current study examines Saudi students’ perspectives, coupled with EAL instructors’ views, regarding Saudi students’ English language-learning needs. Two data ...
• Tempo modulations in English 

  Kirkham, Sandra Patricia (2018-09-14)

  The goal of synthetic speech is to provide speech that is both comprehensible and natural sounding. While synthetic speech is drawing nearer to its goal, it has not yet attained a truly natural quality. Naturalness can be ...
• A comparative study of the language content of employment-related units in government-funded language programs for newcomers in Canada and Australia 

  Zhang, Yiran (2018-08-10)

  In response to the scant studies comparing the language content of the employment-related units in Australia's Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) and Canada's Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program, ...
• The morphological and phonological structures of Spokane lexemes 

  Black, Deirdre Jean (2018-08-01)

  The primary purpose of this study is to specify the structural characteristics of the phonological representations of Spokane lexemes which are relevant for the rules of the morphology and the rules of the phonology. In ...
• The light verb construction in Japanese: the role of the verbal noun 

  Miyamoto, Tadao (2018-07-25)

  This is a study of the so-called Light Verb Construction (LVC) in Japanese, which consists of the verb suru ‘do’ and the accusative-marked verbal noun, as exemplified in (1). (1) a. Taroo ga Tokyo ni ryokoo o suru. NOM ...
• Language planning for national development: the case of Ghana 

  Agbedor, Paul Kofi (2018-07-11)

  Studies by Fishman (1968a) and Pool (1971) show some correlation between economic development and multilingualism. In other words, countries that are multilingual tend to be less economically developed. This kind of ...
• On the nature of Mandarin tone and tone sandhi 

  Lin, Hua (2018-07-05)

  Traditional representations of Mandarin tones have provided valuable descriptions of Mandarin tone sandhi processes. However, none of them has been able to associate these processes in a principled way, or to explain why ...
• Canadian English in Saskatchewan: a sociolinguistic survey of four selected regions 

  Nylvek, Judith Anne (2018-06-28)

  The objective of this study is to provide detailed information regarding Canadian English as it is spoken by English-speaking Canadians who were born and raised in Saskatchewan and who still reside in this province. A data ...
• Syntactic dependencies in Chinese and their theoretical implications 

  Xue, Ping (2018-06-27)

  This dissertation discusses antecedent-gap dependencies, specifically topicalization phenomena in various constructions in Chinese. The discussion reveals the relevance of certain general notions essential to the analysis ...
• The phonological structure of the Kashubian word 

  Hopkins, Paul Stanley (2018-06-22)

  This dissertation examines the word-level phonology of the North-West Slavic language Kashubian spoken in East Pomerania (northern Poland) placing the investigation within the theoretical context of Optimality Theory. The ...
• A grammar of the Nisgha language 

  Tarpent, Marie-Lucie (2018-06-21)

  The Nisgha language, a member of the Tsimshianic family, is spoken in the Nass Valley of British Columbia. This grammar, based on recent first-hand research, provides an overview of the structure of the language. The first ...
• The aspectual system of Chinese 

  Yang, Suying (2018-06-13)

  Mandarin Chinese has a very interesting and complex aspectual system. This thesis studies this system from a new perspective, a modified version of Smith's (1991) two-component theory. It is shown that the modifications ...
• Literacy and language revitalization: leaving a visible trace 

  Comeau, Emily (2018-05-31)

  The purpose of this research is to seek out Indigenous perspectives on literacy in Indigenous Language Revitalization (ILR), and to explore the role of print literacy in ILR in British Columbia. The central research question ...
• A phonetic and phonological investigation of North American English (NAE) segments in the interlanguage grammar of a native speaker of German (SHG) 

  Suessenbach, Lisa (2018-04-30)

  This thesis investigates the L2 English pronunciation of a native speaker of German who has lived in western Canada for 25 years. The goal of the study was understand the defining features of his accent, to determine what ...
• Prosodic structure of the foxtrot 

  Richards, Matthew (2018-04-30)

  Language is a common metaphor used to describe dance and how people understand, observe, dance and relate to dances. This metaphor implies that dance has a communicative aspect between people and there is a structure to ...
• The role of storytelling in the development of pronunciation of Brazilian learners of English as a foreign language 

  Rezende Lucarevschi, Claudio (2018-04-26)

  A number of studies in the literature claim that storytelling is a powerful tool in the development of receptive (i.e., Reading and Listening) and productive (i.e., Speaking and Writing) language skills, including pronunciation ...
• Limxhl Hlgu Wo'omhlxw Song of the Newborn : knowledge and stories surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, and the newborn. A collaborative language project 

  Dworak, Catherine (2018-01-30)

  The Limxhl Hlgu Wo'omhlxw (Song of the Newborn) project is situated on Lax Yipxwhl Gitxsan (Gitxsan Territory) and embraces a decolonizing and Indigenist (Wilson, 2007) methodology. The project is a collaboration between ...
• Theoretical and empirical considerations in investigating washback : a study of ESL/EFL learners 

  Saif, Shahrzad (2018-01-19)

  Researchers' and educators' recognition of the positive/negative effects of tests on teaching and learning activities goes back at least four decades. However, this phenomenon, referred to as “washback” in the applied ...
• Codeswitching in the multilingual mind 

  Hilderman, Dustin (2017-12-22)

  The very existence of intra-word codeswitching—of the type [w ML1 + ML2]; *[eat]eng + [-iendo]Spanish —has long been a point of contention in the language mixing literature (Poplack, 1980; Myers-Scotton, 1992; MacSwan, ...
• A study of linguistic, perceptual and pedagogical change in a short-term intensive language program 

  Woodman, Karen (2017-10-18)

  This study investigates linguistic, perceptual and pedagogical change (LPPC) in a short-term study-abroad English immersion program. A conceptual and methodological framework, the LPPC Interactive Model of SLA, is proposed ...

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