Luraghi (2009) presents a good argument that the Proto-Indo-European *-(e)h2 suffix, which came to be an inflection marker of the feminine grammatical gender in the nucle[...]

Clarke and Oconee County, GA are two communities which are geographically located within a few miles of each other, but display strong cultural difference. Clarke County[...]

This dissertation examines the strategies used to feminize professional titles in French, Spanish, and Portuguese newspapers. It addresses the growing use of distinctive [...]

In this dissertation, I examined the usage of adjective intensifiers in the academic writing of multilingual undergraduate university students in an English as a foreign [...]

Mandarin Chinese, like other tonal languages, makes use of modulation in F0 for both marking lexical items and pragmatic purposes. This makes it challenging for L2 speake[...]

In this study, I conduct a case study of news media coverage of Dylann Roof's mass shooting in Charleston, SC in 2015. Using systemic functional linguistics, I explore ho[...]

En este estudio se analiza la adquisición de la reduplicación del clítico dativo de tercera persona (le/les) en español por parte de estudiantes de español como L2 y prof[...]

The present study investigates the linguistic feature of directness found in Peninsular Spanish requests and how directness is perceived by both native speakers of Spanis[...]

The present study investigates the use of pragmatic apology strategies by YouTube micro-celebrities in online apology videos. It aims to better understand what apology st[...]

In this dissertation, I investigate how late bilinguals of English and Brazilian Portuguese (BP), two typologically distinct languages, encode motion in writing and speec[...]

Vowel epenthesis is an essential strategy in the adaptation of English loanwords into Korean. Despite its importance, epenthetic vowels remain relatively underexplored ac[...]

In US English, the merging of the voiceless labiovelar glide [hw] and its voiced counterpart [w] has been an ongoing process over the past century, originating in central[...]

In United States English, morpheme-initial <wh> exhibits sociophonetic variation between competing segments [hw] and [w]. Once the standard and prestige variant, [h[...]

The present study investigates phonetic variation in two Southern US counties with the goal of untangling how cultural and place-based identities can contribute to lingui[...]

Sociolinguistic research finds that people with strong ties to the place where they live are more likely to use local dialect features, but what happens when the cultural[...]

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) departments around the United States depend on international teaching assistants (ITAs) as a significant source of teach[...]

Ingria is a region no longer on any map, but rather a place in the hearts and minds of diasporic Ingrians and Ingrian-Finns, whose numbers have systematically dwindled fr[...]

Research shows that the acquisition of grammatical gender agreement is a major stumbling block for learners of foreign languages. Even after years of study, learners stru[...]

All languages exhibit the duality of patterning, where words are formed via discrete meaningful units called morphemes, which in turn are made up of lexically contrastive[...]

This dissertation investigates the potential effect of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the variation and realization of Arabic marked consonants including /t/, /[...]

Although the ESP approach is widely used in English language programs in Saudi Arabia, few applications have been conducted to customize ESP courses to suit the Saudi wor[...]

This dissertation proposes a method of preparing natural language data for analysis, focusing on the transformation of spoken language into written form in a Language Var[...]

Request structures vary considerably between languages and among the dialects of a language in both their level of directness and the ways in which they are mitigated. Va[...]

This dissertation describes a study in linguistic geography conducted in Colorado using the methodology of the Linguistic Atlas of the Western States. As such, the goals[...]

In contexts where English is considered a foreign language, the classroom provides the only exposure to language for most learners. As such, it becomes an important site [...]