• L2, L3 and heritage acquisition of Chinese T3 sandhi: comprehensibility and accentedness 

  Deng, Jie (2022-05-02)

  This is a study of Mandarin third tone (T3) sandhi produced by learners learning Mandarin as a second language, third language, or heritage language. I investigate factors affecting learners’ Mandarin T3 sandhi performance ...
• A grammar of relationship. How Mi’kmaw verbs indicate the relationship between participants in a sentence 

  Friesen, Dianne (2022-04-27)

  In this thesis we ask, how are arguments introduced and mapped to grammatical positions in Mi’kmaw? We build on insights from Piggott (1989), Wiltschko (2014), and Harley (2017) and use a corpus of over 150 verb stems in ...
• Heterogeneity in the structure of Icelandic -st figure reflexives 

  Moser, Christiana (2021-08-25)

  Under a theoretical framework of Minimalism and Distributed Morphology, this thesis presents evidence for an analysis that accounts for heterogeneity in the argument structure of figure reflexives that contain -st verbs ...
• À Paris/sur Paris: a variationist account of prepositional alternation before city names in Hexagonal French 

  Buaillon, Emmanuelle (2021-08-04)

  À is the prototypical preposition used before city names in French, yet there are reports that, since the mid-20th century, sur also appears in this context in vernacular varieties of European French. To date, research ...
• Explicit versus implicit corrective feedback during videoconferencing: effects on the accuracy and fluency of L2 speech 

  Shirani, Reza (2020-09-21)

  A growing body of research has compared the effects of explicit and implicit corrective feedback (CF) on L2 accuracy. However, L2 performance is not limited to accuracy. Fluency is another important aspect of L2 performance, ...
• The development and empirical substantiation of Japanese pedagogical materials based on kabuki 

  Katsumata, Yuriko (2020-05-21)

  Many researchers (e.g., Nation, 2001, 2015; Schmitt, 2000) have recognized the importance of vocabulary learning in second language (L2) or additional language (AL) acquisition. The strong effects of lexical and background ...
• Valuing linguistic diversity: grammatical features of First Nations school-aged children's spoken and written language 

  Hart Blundon, Patricia (2019-12-24)

  Students who speak local varieties (i.e., dialects) of English that differ from the codified variety promoted in school are at a disadvantage. Research illustrates that differences in sound systems, grammar, vocabulary, ...
• When if is when and when is then: The particle nı̨dè in Tłı̨chǫ 

  Anisman, Adar (2019-12-11)

  The purpose of this dissertation is to account for the syntactic and semantic traits of Tłı̨chǫ modal clauses within a cross-linguistic typology of conditional clauses. This dissertation provides a comprehensive ...
• An investigation of pedagogical approaches and methods used in a French university French-as-a-foreign-language program: teacher and student perspectives 

  Blackstone, Pam (2019-10-01)

  This qualitative study has investigated a month-long French-as-a-foreign-language summer program. Its goal was to compare teacher (n=4) and student (n=6) perspectives regarding learning objectives, challenges, and preferred ...
• The impact of computer-mediated communication on EFL learners' oral performance 

  Bagherbeigi, Vahid (2019-09-20)

  Since the advent of the Internet as a means of communication, more and more people have been using electronic media for a variety of purposes including interpersonal communication, sending and receiving information as well ...
• The efficacy of lexical stress diacritics in the English comprehensibility and accentedness of Korean speakers 

  Kim, Keun (2019-08-20)

  In the field of second language (L2) pronunciation research and teaching, relatively less research has been conducted on the efficacy of suprasegmental features (e.g., stress and intonation) than that of segmentals (individual ...
• Goyatıı̀ K’aàt’ıı̀ Ats’edee, K’aàt’ıı̀ Adets’edee: Ho! 

  Erasmus, Margaret Therese (2019-05-06)

  This study investigates key components for effective Indigenous adult language learning and resulting health and wellness benefits following a Dene research paradigm with Grounded Theory applications. Eight colleagues in ...
• The morphosyntax of clause typing: single, double, periphrastic, and multifunctional complementizers in Korean 

  Ceong, Hailey Hyekyeong (2019-05-01)

  In this dissertation I provide an account of the distribution of Korean clause-typing markers from the perspective of a formal typological model, the Universal Spine Hypothesis (Wiltschko, 2014, 2017). Although Korean ...
• An acoustic investigation of vowel variation in Gitksan 

  Borland-Walker, Kyra Ann (2019-02-13)

  The research question for this thesis is: How does vowel quality vary across Gitksan speakers, and what sociolinguistic factors may be influencing this variation? Answering this question requires both that I show what the ...
• The phonological representation and distribution of vowel in SENĆOŦEN (Saanich) 

  Leonard, Janet (2019-01-29)

  This dissertation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the phonology of vowels in SENĆOŦEN (Salish). Evidence from various phonological and phonetic phenomena are brought together to support a proposal that there ...
• The syntax of V-V resultatives in Mandarin Chinese 

  Liu, Jianxun (2019-01-25)

  This is a study on the syntax of V-V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese within the generative framework. I investigate three aspects of these constructions: the generation of resultative V-V compounds, the ...
• 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 ...

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