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Allan, Hallie | Noun Incorporation in Crow: an Assessment of Various Approaches | Polysynthesis is generally understood to be some form of morphological complexity in the verb, encoding information about the predicate and its related arguments. One feature associated with polysynthesis is noun incorporation, where noun and nominal structures are brought into the verbal structure.... | | 2020 |
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Nakashima, Elizabeth | Linguistic Reclamation in the LGBTQ+ Community | This thesis analyzes and determines whether or not the pejorative fag or faggot is in the process of being reclaimed by the LGBTQ+ speech community. Previous research on linguistic reclamation has not provided an adequate model for determining whether or not a pejorative is within the process of bei... | | 2017 |
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Jones, Tanner | An analysis of stress patterns in bolognese | Bolognese, the language native to Bologna, Italy, exhibits a stress pattern that is mostly predictable, and tends to be word-final. This pattern becomes more interesting when it interacts with other phonotactic and morphophonological constraints. The two most prominent influences that cause stress t... | | 2024 |
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Olson, Eve | Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants | In this project, I investigate the voice onset time (VOT) of stop consonants as produced by Arabic speakers in comparison to English speakers. In English, there exists a phonological contrast between voiced and voiceless pronunciations of bilabial, alveolar, and velar stop consonants. These pairs ar... | | 2017 |
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Loveland, Jessica | Learning styles of teachers and students in a second language classrooms | The general research questions for this research study are concerned with learning styles and whether differences in student and teacher learning styles negatively impact students' perceived grades in second and foreign language classrooms. Participants were asked to take a 30-minute online question... | Learning - Evaluation - Case Studies; Learning styles - Students; Learning styles - Teachers | |
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Webb, Andrew | Legal instability and societal breakdown in La mort le roi Artur | The death of King Arthur and the twilight of his empire are attributed by many scholars to the adulterous love affair between Queen Guinevere and Lancelot. Indeed their adulterous relationship seems to set off a chain of events that leads to the inglorious demise of almost all of the Knights of the ... | Legend of King Arthur; Arthurian law | 1991 |
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Manwill, Savannah | The sociolinguistics of Basque in the U.S. | This thesis examines the history of the Basques (both in Europe and the United States), the ethnolinguistic vitality of Basque in the U.S. (including the role of language and language revitalization efforts), and some linguistic features of Basque today. It makes use of various articles, studies, an... | Basque language - Social aspects - United States; Sociolinguistics - United States | 2013-05 |
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Breiholz, Camille | Not there yet: The effect of persistent grief on an immigrant's ability to assimilate | Grief is a component of immigration present no matter the time period or mode of migration. In the Distance by Hernan Diaz tells the story of a young Swedish immigrant to America during the 1800s gold rush as he traverses the country in search of his brother while Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck r... | | 2023 |
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Hansen, James Christian | Visionary Minds, Visionary Worlds: Analyzing Three Video Games from Fumito Ueda, Hidetaka Miyazaki, and Jenova Chen | The objective of this thesis is to analyze Fumito Ueda's Shadow of the Colossus, Hidetaka Miyazaki's Dark Souls, and Jenova Chen's Journey in order to see how together they represent the storytelling potential of video games. Each embody in their work the notion that games as a medium can convey and... | | 2018 |
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Hannon, Jackson | National strategy and military doctrine in Afghanistan and Iraq and the creation of the office of foreign affairs and reconstruction | The 9/11 terror attacks in New York by al Qaeda have largely been considered a landmark moment in American hist ory, and in the path of the Bush presidency. While the Bush administration had something of a general foreign policy and guiding strategy, the attacks on 9/11 were a seminal moment for the... | United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century; United States -- Military policy; United States -- Military relations -- Afghanistan; United States -- Military relations -- Iraq; United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan; United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq | 2015-08 |
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Townsend, Colby J. | Appropriation and adaptation of J material in the Book of Mormon | This study explores the influence of the King James Bible (KJV) on the Book of Mormon (BM) by examining how the BM appropriates and adapts the text of the J source of the Pentateuch-a narrative strand from Genesis to Deuteronomy-and weaves phrases, ideas, motifs, and characters into the text. I iden... | Book of Mormon - Criticism, Textual | 2016-05 |