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Dialect, stereotype, and humor: Linguistic variation and its place in humor studies through the lens of Mark Twain's dialect humor
Jeanelle Barrett , Purdue University
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the existence of dialect humor as a linguistic reality in addition to its most recognized use as a literary device. Dialect humor has been acknowledged in passing by linguists, literary scholars, and humor scholars, but none have given much attention to dialect humor as a component of language study or as more than a trifling component of humor. This dissertation makes the argument that dialect humor is used in everyday language in much the same way as it has been used in literature. Therefore, a broader and more thorough study of dialect humor and its concomitant stereotypes in both linguistic and literary humor can inform language and humor study by observing how language creation and linguistic competence are reflected in speakers' uses of dialect humor. Moreover, how language attitudes are reflected in and perpetuated by the presence of such stereotypes is discussed as a cognitive function informing our use and understanding of language; the existence of dialect humor reflects a good deal of that understanding. To connect the extant literary corpus to the proposed linguistic corpus of dialect humor, this dissertation relies on the work of humorist Mark Twain, making connections between the linguistic properties of Twain's humor and their speech counterparts in everyday language, noting some possible pedagogical and theoretical uses in the fields of linguistics and humor alike.
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Computational measures of linguistic variation: a study of Arabic varieties
Abunasser, mahmoud.
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Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variation and change. The book demonstrates how variationist methodology can be applied to the study of linguistic structures and processes. It introduces readers to variation theory, while also providing an overview of current debates on the linguistic, cognitive and sociocultural factors involved in linguistic patterning. With its coverage of a diverse range of language varieties and linguistic problems, this book offers new quantitative analyses of actual language production and processing from both top experts and emerging scholars, and presents students and practitioners with theoretical frameworks to meaningfully engage in accountable research practice.
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Chapter | 4 pages, introduction, part a | 68 pages, the variationist comparative method, chapter 1 | 15 pages, contrasting patterns of agreement in three communities, chapter 2 | 16 pages, a comparative variationist perspective on relative clauses in child and adult speech, chapter 3 | 18 pages, uh and um in british and american english: are they words, chapter 4 | 17 pages, a variationist approach to subject-aux question inversion in bajan and other caribbean creole englishes, aave, and appalachian, part b | 74 pages, identifying and tracking language change, chapter 5 | 21 pages, the continuing story of verbal –s, chapter 6 | 15 pages, phonetic variation across centuries, chapter 7 | 20 pages, focus and wh-questions in brazilian portuguese, chapter 8 | 16 pages, grammaticalization and variation of will and shall in shakespeare's comedies, part c | 61 pages, language ideology, prescription, and community norms, chapter 9 | 16 pages, drifting toward the standard language, chapter 10 | 13 pages, the neglected topic of variation in teacher classroom speech, chapter 11 | 15 pages, words we use, chapter 12 | 15 pages, active retirees, part d | 73 pages, evaluating the effects of language contact on the ground, chapter 13 | 16 pages, going through (l) in l2, chapter 14 | 15 pages, variable patterns in spanish-english acquisition from birth, chapter 15 | 21 pages, déjà voodoo or new trails ahead, chapter 16 | 19 pages, dialect-to-standard advergence, part e | 63 pages, fresh perspectives on classic problems, chapter 17 | 12 pages, the beginnings of the southern shift, chapter 18 | 22 pages, a comparative sociolinguistic analysis of the dative alternation, chapter 19 | 16 pages, variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic theory in the context of pronominal perseveration, chapter 20 | 11 pages, comparing variables in different corpora with context-based model-free variant probabilities.
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The genre of the linguistics article within studies of language variation and change : a diachronic perspective, 1891-2015.
David Durian
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Eubanks, Philip, 1954-
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Historical linguistics; Linguistic analysis (Linguistics); Technical writing
I analyze the rhetorical and structural elements of the genre of the linguistics article, specifically within the subfield of studies of language variation and change, also known as "American sociolinguistics." As my analysis demonstrates, the genre of the linguistics article in studies of language variation and change can most profitably be analyzed as having been shaped by intellectual movements occurring during three distinct eras. During the first era (1891--1954), the variationist linguistics article was primarily a "discovery text." That is, many of the topics discussed are first studies of those topics or first studies of the communities in which particular linguistic phenomena occur. During the second era (1955--1984), the variationist linguistics article became reconfigured from discovery text into a true scientific analysis text. Throughout this era, the methods of linguistics were being refined, the autonomy of the field was being more robustly established, and the robustness of the scientific methods employed in the analysis of linguistic data were strengthened. During the final era (1985--2015), the methods of analysis, discussion, and exploration of linguistic data trends developed during the previous era became further refined and perfected. During this era, more precise statistical tools for analyzing linguistic trends developed, while the theoretical apparatus for discussing those trends matured. Ultimately, as my analysis demonstrates, the genre of the linguistics article proves interesting to study for several reasons from the perspective of genre theory. First, it provides us with a rather salient example of how genre conventions track the social action of critical commentary versus the social action of scientific study within a given field of study. Unlike many of the other scientific fields that have been studied in genre studies previously, linguistics provides a unique field for study, one that transformed quickly from one that was mostly a humanistic enterprise before the late 19th Century---that is, one considered primarily with language history and philology from the perspective of language as a lifeform---to one that become increasingly a scientific one, particularly from middle of the 20th Century onward. As the discussion of the material in Chapters 4 and 5 will show, this transformation was not only rapid, but also quite complete, once it took hold. In demonstrating this transformation, I provide the field of genre studies with a robust example of what Bazerman was attempting to demonstrate in his work on the Royal Society---the fact that a new relationship among intellectuals was emerging with the turn to the scientific in linguistics as spearheaded within variationist studies by the work of William Labov; thus, a new kind of standard writing emerged to mediate between them. A second area where my study makes a contribution to genre studies is its use and implementation of a new kind of hybrid methodology for approaching the study of the genre of scientific writing, by combining Miller's focus on genre as social action with the emphasis on the structural components of the scientific article one finds in the work of researchers such as Swales, and the structural and organizational elements of professional texts of researchers such as Bhatia and Berkenkoter and Huckin. My analysis investigates the structural aspects of the genre by employing Swales's CARS (Creating a Research Space) for exploring the structural aspects of introductions found in my data corpus throughout Chapters 4, 5, and 6, while also considering the organizational and structural elements of the writing more generally within the context of larger movements in the field. In addition, it mixes this approach to the social and the structural with Bazerman's context-rich approach of incorporating a detailed analysis and discussion of the situation and historical contexts surrounding the development of genre conventions within a field of study. In doing so, this hybrid approach provides new insights into the genre of the research article more generally.
Advisors: Philip Eubanks.||Committee members: Betty Birner; Jessica Reyman.||Includes bibliographical references.
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Linguistic variation from cognitive variability: the case of English 'have'
Muye Zhang , Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Follow
Date of Award
Fall 10-1-2021
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Linguistics
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Piñango, María
In this dissertation, I seek to construct a model of meaning variation built upon variability in linguistic structure, conceptual structure, and cognitive makeup, and in doing so, exemplify an approach to studying meaning that is both linguistically principled and neuropsychologically grounded. As my test case, I make use of the English lexical item 'have' by proposing a novel analysis of its meaning based on its well-described variability in English and its embedding into crosslinguistically consistent patterns of variation and change. I support this analysis by investigating its real-time comprehension patterns through behavioral, electropsychophysiological, and hemodynamic brain data, thereby incorporating dimensions of domain-general cognitive variability as crucial determinants of linguistic variability. Per my account, 'have' retrieves a generalized relational meaning which can give rise to a conceptually constrained range of readings, depending on the degree of causality perceived from either linguistic or contextual cues. Results show that comprehenders can make use of both for 'have'-sentences, though they vary in the degree to which they rely on each. At the very broadest level, the findings support a model in which the semantic distribution of 'have' is inherently principled due to a unified conceptual structure. This underlying conceptual structure and relevant context cooperate in guiding comprehension by modulating the salience of potential readings, as comprehension unfolds; though, this ability to use relevant context--context-sensitivity--is variable but systematic across comprehenders. These linguistic and cognitive factors together form the core of normal language processing and, with a gradient conceptual framework, the minimal infrastructure for meaning variation and change.
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Zhang, Muye, "Linguistic variation from cognitive variability: the case of English 'have'" (2021). Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations . 445. https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/gsas_dissertations/445
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| 2021 | Wei | Lai | The Online Adjustment of Speaker-Specific Phonetic Beliefs in Mulit-Speaker Speech Perception |
| 2021 | Ruaridh | Purse | The Role of Morphological Structure in Phonetic Variation |
| 2021 | Caitlin | Richter | Alternation-Sensitive Phoneme Learning: Implications For Children’s Development And Language Change |
| 2021 | Yosiane | White | The Processing and Mental Representation of ING Variation |
| 2020 | Andrea | Ceolin | Functionalism, Lexical Contrast and Sound Change |
| 2020 | Ava | Creemers | Morphological Processing and the Effects of Semantic Transparency |
| 2020 | Aletheia | Cui | The Emergence of Phonological Categories |
| 2020 | Taylor | Jones | Variation and African American English: The Great Migration and Regional Differentiation |
| 2020 | Jordan | Kodner | Language Acquisition in the Past |
| 2020 | Milena | Šereikaitė | Voice and Case Phenomena in Lithuanian morphosyntax |
| 2020 | Lacey | Wade | The Linguistic and the Social Intertwined: Linguistic Convergence Toward Southern Speech |
| 2020 | David | Wilson | A Concatenative Analysis of Diachronic Afro-Asiatic Morphology |
| 2020 | Hong | Zhang | The Distribution of Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech: Empirical Observations and Theoretical Implications |
| 2019 | Luke | Adamson | Derivational Trapping and The Morphosyntax of Inflectionlessness |
| 2019 | Nattanun | Chanchaochai | Language Profiles of Thai Children with Autism: Lexical, Grammatical, and Pragmatic Factors |
| 2019 | Kajsa | Djaerv | Factive and Assertive Attitude Reports |
| 2019 | Aaron | Freeman | Rhotic Emphasis and Uvularization in Moroccan Arabic |
| 2019 | Ava | Irani | Learning From Positive Evidence: The Acquisition of Verb Argument Structure |
| 2018 | Mao-Hsu | Chen | Tone Sandhi Phenomena in Taiwan Southern Min |
| 2018 | Sabriya | Fisher | Variation and change in past tense negation in African American English |
| 2018 | Amy | Goodwin Davies | Morphological representations in lexical processing |
| 2018 | Gudrun | Gylfadottir | The Effective Borrowing of a Phonemic Contrast |
| 2018 | Helen | Jeoung | Optional Elements in Indonesian Morphosyntax |
| 2018 | Soohyun | Kwon | The development of glide deletion in Seoul Korean: A corpus and articulatory study |
| 2018 | Betsy | Sneller | Mechanisms of Phonological Change |
| 2018 | Robert | Wilder | Investigating Hybrid Models of Speech Perception |
| 2017 | Hezekiah Akiva | Bacovcin | Parameterising Germanic ditransitive variation: a historical-comparative study |
| 2017 | Sunghye | Cho | Development of Pitch Contrast and Seoul Korean Intonation |
| 2017 | Einar | Sigurdsson | Deriving case, agreement and voice phenomena in syntax. |
| 2017 | Gayeon | Son | Interactive development of FO as an acoustic cue for Korean stop contrast |
| 2016 | Anton | Ingason | Realizing morphemes in the Icelandic noun phrase |
| 2016 | Marielle | Lerner | The aquisition of sociolinguistic variation in a Mexican immigrant community |
| 2016 | Hilary | Prichard | The Role of Higher Education in Linguistic Change |
| 2015 | Chris | Ahern | Cycles and Stability in Linguistic Signaling |
| 2015 | Aaron | Ecay | A Multi-Step Analysis of the Evolution of English Do-Support |
| 2015 | Yong-cheol | Lee | Prosodic Focus Within and Across Languages |
| 2015 | Kobey | Shwayder | Words and Subwords: Phohology in a Piece-Based Syntactic Morphology |
| 2014 | Dimka | Atanassov | Processing Strategies for Scalar Implicatures |
| 2014 | Lauren | Friedman | The St. Louis Corridor: Mixing, Competing, and Retreating Dialects |
| 2014 | Brittany | McLaughlin | Animacy in Morphosyntactic Variation |
| 2014 | Meredith | Tamminga | Persistence in the Production of Linguistic Variation |
| 2013 | Toni | Cook | Morphological and Phonological Structure in Zulu Reduplication |
| 2013 | Josef | Fruehwald | The Phonological Influence on Phonetic Change |
| 2013 | Kyle | Gorman | Generative Phonotactics |
| 2013 | Jon Scott | Stevens | Information Structure, Grammar & Strategy in Discourse. |
| 2013 | Yanyan | Sui | Phonological and Phonetic Evidence for Trochaic Metrical Structure in Standard Chinese. |
| 2012 | Catherine | Lai | Rises all the way up: The interpretation of prosody, discourse attitudes and dialogue structure |
| 2012 | Caitlin R. | Light | The Syntax and Pragmatics of Fronting in Germanic. |
| 2012 | Laurel | MacKenzie | Locating Variation Above the Phonology. |
| 2012 | Giang Huong | Nguyen | Vietnamese Vowel System. |
| 2011 | Ariel | Diertani | Morpheme Boundaries and Structural Change: Affixes Running Amok |
| 2011 | Aviad | Eilam | Explorations in the Informational Component |
| 2010 | Lucas | Champollion | Parts of a Whole: Distributivity as a Bridge Between Aspect and Measurement |
| 2010 | Jonathan | Gress-Wright | Opacity and transparency in phonological change |
| 2010 | Joshua | Tauberer | Learning [voice] |
| 2009 | Aaron | Dinkin | Dialect Boundaries and Phonological Change in Upstate New York |
| 2009 | Keelan | Evanini | The Permeability of Dialect Boundaries: A Case Study of the Region Surrounding Erie, Pennsylvania |
| 2009 | Michael | Friesner | The Social and Linguistic Predictors of the Outcomes of Borrowing in the Speech Community of Montreal |
| 2009 | Laia | Mayol | Pronouns in Catalan: Information, Discourse and Strategy |
| 2009 | Jean-François | Mondon | The Nature of Homophony and its Effects on Diachrony and Synchrony |
| 2009 | Maya | Ravindranath | Language Shift and the Speech Community: Sociolinguistic Change in a Garifuna Community in Belize |
| 2009 | Joel | Wallenberg | Antisymmetry and the Conservation of C-Command: Scrambling and Phrase Structure in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective |
| 2008 | Lukasz | Abramowicz | Socioeconomic Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Polish |
| 2008 | Damien | Hall | A Sociolinguistic Study of the Regional French of Normandy |
| 2008 | Yoon-kyoung | Joh | Plurality and Distributivity |
| 2008 | Marjorie | Pak | The Postsyntactic Derivation and its Phonological Reflexes |
| 2008 | Tatjana | Scheffler | Semantic Operators in Different Dimensions |
| 2008 | Augustin | Speyer | Topicalization and Clash Avoidance. On the Interaction of Prosody and Syntax in the History of English with a Few Spotlights on German |
| 2008 | Suzanne | Wagner | Linguistic Change and Stabilization in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood |
| 2007 | Sudha | Arunachalam | Early Verb Representations |
| 2007 | Jinyoung | Choi | Free Choice and Negative Polarity: A Compositional Analysis of Korean Polarity Sensitive Items |
| 2007 | Daniel | Johnson | Stability and Change Along a Dialect Boundary: The Low Vowels of Southeastern New England |
| 2007 | Jonathan | Wright | Laryngeal Contrast in Seoul Korean |
| 2006 | Maciej | Baranowski | Phonological Variation and Change in the Dialect of Charleston, SC |
| 2006 | Susan | Das | The Banarasi Bhojpuri Verb System |
| 2006 | Michelle | Fox | Usage-Based Effects in Latin American Spanish Syllable-Final /s/ Lentition |
| 2006 | Na-Rae | Han | Korean Zero Pronouns: Analysis and Resolution |
| 2006 | Sophia | Malamud | Semantics and Pragmatics of Arbitrariness |
| 2006 | Sergio | Romero | Sociolinguistic variation and linguistic history in Mayan: the case of K’ichee’ |
| 2006 | Ian | Ross | Games Interlocutors Play: New Adventures in Compositionality and Conversational Implicature |
| 2005 | Anne | Charity | Dialect Variation in School Settings Among African-American Children of Low Socioeconomic Status |
| 2005 | Jeff | Conn | Of “Moice” and Men: The Evolution of a Male-Led Sound Change |
| 2005 | Alan W. | Lee | Tone patterns of Kelantan Hokkien and Related Issues in Southern Min Tonology |
| 2005 | Thomas | Morton | Sociolinguistic variation and language change in El Palenque de San Basilio, Colombia |
| 2005 | Tara | Sanchez | Constraints on Structural Borrowing in a Multilingual Contact Situation |
| 2005 | Victoria | Tredinnick | On the Semantics of Free Relatives With -Ever |
| 2005 | Alexander | Williams | Complex Causatives and Verbal Valence |
| 2004 | Thomas | McFadden | The Position of Morphological Case in the Derivation: A Study on the Syntax-Morphology Interface |
| 2004 | Kimiko | Nakanishi | Domains of Measurement: Formal Properties of Non-Split/Split Quantifier Constructions |
| 2003 | Cassandra | Creswell | Syntactic Form and Discourse Function in Natural Language Generation |
| 2003 | Katherine | Forbes | Discourse Semantics of S-Modifying Adverbials |
| 2003 | Elsi | Kaiser | The Quest for a Referent: A Crosslinguistic Look at Reference Resolution |
| 2003 | Eleni | Miltsakaki | The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Effects of the Main-Subordinate Distinction on Attention Structure |
| 2003 | Elise | Morse-Gagne | Viking Pronouns in England: Charting the Course of They, Their, and Them |
| 2003 | Rashmi | Prasad | Constraints on the Generation of Referring Expressions, with Special Reference to Hindi |
| 2003 | John | Schultz | Term Selection for Information Retrieval Applications |
| 2003 | Kieran | Snyder | The Relationship Between Form and Function in Ditransitive Constructions |
| 2002 | Ronald | Kim | Topics in the Reconstruction and Development of Indo-European Accent |
| 2002 | Paul | Kingsbury | The Chronology of the Pali Canon: The Case of the Aorists |
| 2002 | Eon-Suk | Ko | The Phonology and Phonetics of Word Level Prosody and its Interaction With Phrase Level Prosody: A Study of Korean in Comparison to English |
| 2002 | Megumi | Kobayashi | A Quantitative Study of Accent Change and Variation in Tokyo Japanese: Focusing on Adjective and Nouns |
| 2002 | Mary | O'Malley Madec | From the Centre to the Edge: The Social Contours and Linguistic Outcomes of Contact with English in an Irish Core and Peripheral Community |
| 2001 | Sean | Crist | Conspiracy In Historical Phonology |
| 2001 | Anita | Henderson | Is Your Money Where Your Mouth Is? Hiring Managers' Attitudes Toward African-American Vernacular English |
| 2000 | Nadia | Biassou | The Neural Encoding Of Lexical Perception In The Human Cortex: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study |
| 2000 | David | Bowie | The Effect Of Geographic Mobility On The Retention Of A Local Dialect |
| 2000 | Alexis | Dimitriadis | Beyond Identity: Topics in Pronominal and Reciprocal Anaphora |
| 2000 | Masato | Kobayashi | Historical Phonology Of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants |
| 2000 | Hikyoung | Lee | Korean Americans As Speakers Of English: The Acquisition Of General And Regional Features |
| 2000 | Christine | Moisset | Variable Liaison In Parisian French |
| 2000 | Roumyana | Pancheva-Izvorski | Free Relatives And Related Matters |
| 2000 | Amanda | Seidl | Minimal Indirect Reference: A Theory Of The Syntax-Phonology Interface |
| 1999 | Rajesh | Bhatt | Covert Modality In Non-Finite Contexts |
| 1998 | Christine | Doran | Incorporating Punctuation into the Sentence Grammar: A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar Perspective |
| 1998 | Chung-hye | Han | The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives: Mood and Force in Universal Grammar |
| 1998 | Beth | Hockey | The Interpretation and Realization of Focus: An Experimental Investigation or Focus in English and Hungarian |
| 1998 | Corey | Miller | Pronunciation Modeling in Speech Synthesis |
| 1998 | Bruce | Nevin | Aspects of Pit River Phonology |
| 1998 | Laura | Wagner | The Semantics and Acquisition of Time in Languge |
| 1997 | Charles | Boberg | Variation and Change in the Nativization of Foreign (a) in English |
| 1997 | David | Embick | Voice and the Interfaces of Syntax. |
| 1997 | Carmen | Fought | The English and Spanish of Young Adult Chicanos |
| 1997 | Soonhyun | Hong | Prosodic Domains and Ambisyllabicity in Optimality Theory |
| 1997 | Lou | Matossian | Burglars, Babysitters, and Persons: A Sociolinguistic Study of Generic Pronoun usage in Philadelphia and Minneapolis |
| 1997 | Miriam | Meyerhoff | "Be I No Gat": Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama |
| 1996 | Sharon | Cote | Grammatical and Discourse Properties of Null Arguments in English |
| 1996 | Elizabeth | Dayton | Grammatical Categories of the Verb in African American Vernacular English |
| 1996 | Shi-Zhe | Huang | Quantification and Predication in Mandarin Chinese: A Case Study of Dou |
| 1996 | Mark | Karan | The Dynamics of Language Spread: A Study of the Motivations and the Social Determinants of the Spread of Sango in the Republic of Central Africa |
| 1996 | Arturs | Karins | The Prosodic Structure of Latvian |
| 1996 | Chang-Bong | Lee | Conditionals as a Discourse-Bound Entity: Pragmatics of Korean Conditionals |
| 1996 | Naomi | Nagy | Language Contact and Language Change in the Faetar Speech Community |
| 1995 | Seo-Young | Chae | External Constraints on Sound Change: The Raising of /o/ in Seoul Korean |
| 1995 | Shengli | Feng | Prosodic Structure and Prosodically Constrained Syntax in Chinese |
| 1995 | Jeong-Hwa | Kim | Linguistic Variation and Territorial Functioning: A Study of the Korean Honorific System |
| 1995 | Richard | Lungstrum | Switch-Reference and the Structure of Lakhota Narrative Discourse |
| 1995 | Kenjiro | Matsuda | Variable Zero-Marking of (0) in Tokyo Japanese |
| 1995 | Umit | Turan | Null vs. Overt Subjects in Turkish Discourse: A Centering Analysis |
| 1995 | Ekaterina | Zubritskaya | The Categorical and Variable Phonology of Russian |
| 1994 | Julie | Auger | Pronominal Clitics in Quebec Colloquial French: A Morphological Analysis |
| 1994 | William | Reynolds | Variation and Phonological Theory |
| 1994 | Julie | Roberts | Acquisition of Variable Rules: (-t, d) Deletion and (ing) Production in Preschool Children |
| 1993 | Josep | Fontana | Phrase Structure And The Syntax Of Clitics In The History Of Spanish |
| 1993 | Young-Suk | Lee | Scrambling As Case-Driven Obligatory Movement |
| 1993 | Linda | Maisel | Variation in Q'eqchi' (Q'eqchi' Mayan): Four compound deictic forms and their role in structuring discourse |
| 1992 | Richard | Cameron | Pronominal and Null Subject Variation in Spanish: Constraints, Dialects, and Functional Compensation |
| 1992 | Margaret | Moser | The Negation Relation: Semantic And Pragmatic Aspects Of A Relational Analysis Sentential Negation |
| 1992 | Peter | Patrick | Linguistic Variation In Urban Jamaican Creole: A Sociolinguistic Study Of Kingston, Jamaica |
| 1991 | Catherine | Ball | The Historical Development Of The It-Cleft |
| 1991 | Robert | Belnap | Grammatical Agreement Variation In Cairene Arabic |
| 1991 | Niloofar | Haeri | Sociolinguistic Variation In Cairene Arabic: Palatalization And The Qaf In The Speech Of Men And Women |
| 1991 | Caroline | Heycock | Layers Of Predication: The Non-Lexical Syntax Of Clauses |
| 1991 | Rosemary | Kauffman | Parking Court: A Linguistic Analysis Of Instrumental Adaptation To Addressee, Time, Adversary, And Identity |
| 1991 | Susan | Pintzuk | Phrase Structures In Competition: Variation And Change In Old English Word Order. |
| 1991 | Otto | Santa Ana | Phonetic Simplification Processes in the English of the Barrio: A Cross-Generational Sociolinguistic Study of the Chicanos of Los Angeles |
| 1991 | Shobha | Satyanath | Variation And Change: (Daz) In Guyanese. |
| 1991 | Thomas | Veatch | English Vowels: Their Surface Phonology And Phonetic Implementation In Vernacular Dialects |
| 1991 | Raffaella | Zanuttini | Syntactic Properties Of Sentential Negation. A Comparative Study Of Romance Languages. |
| 1990 | Ruth | Herold | Mechanisms Of Merger: The Implementation And Distribution Of The Low Back Merger In Eastern Pennsylvania. |
| 1990 | Robin | Sabino | Towards a Phonology of Negerhollands: An Analysis of Phonological Variation. |
| 1990 | Ann | Taylor | Clitics and Configurationality in Ancient Greek. |
| 1990 | Asha | Tickoo | On Preposing and Word Order Rigidity. |
| 1990 | Enric | Vallduvi | The Informational Component |
| 1989 | Beatrice | Santorini | The Generalization Of The Verb-Second Constraint In The History Of Yiddish |
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1. Changing Identities : Language Variation on Czech Television
Author : Tora Hedin ; Barbro Nilsson ; Karel Šebesta ; Karel Kučera ; Stockholms universitet ; [] Keywords : HUMANIORA ; HUMANITIES ; Czech discourse analysis ; Czech language ; Czech linguistics ; codification ; television discourse ; linguistic norm ; linguistic variation ; code-switching ; post-Communist media ; Slavic languages ; Slaviska språk ;
Abstract : This study examines different aspects of language variation in contemporary Czech television discourse. The modern Czech language is characterised by a specific linguistic situation in which speakers must choose between two varieties – Standard Czech (SC) and Common Czech (CC). READ MORE
2. Evidential marking in spoken English : Linguistic functions and gender variation
Author : Erika Berglind Söderqvist ; Merja Kytö ; Angela Hoffman ; Marta Carretero ; Uppsala universitet ; [] Keywords : HUMANIORA ; HUMANITIES ; HUMANIORA ; HUMANITIES ; Evidentiality ; spoken language ; English ; corpus linguistics ; gender ; style ; pragmatics ; sociolinguistics ; English ; Engelska ;
Abstract : This thesis investigates the marking of evidentiality in spoken British English. Evidentiality is the linguistic expression of whether and how a speaker/writer has access to evidence for or against the truth of a proposition, and it is usually manifested in the form of sensory evidentiality (e.g. I saw Sam leave), hearsay evidentiality (e. READ MORE
3. Second Person Singular Pronouns in Early Modern English Dialogues 1560-1760
Author : Terry Walker ; Merja Kytö ; Ulrich Busse ; Uppsala universitet ; [] Keywords : HUMANIORA ; HUMANITIES ; English language ; thou ; you ; variation ; Early Modern English ; speech-related genres ; extra-linguistic factors ; linguistic factors ; macro-analysis ; micro-analysis ; corpus linguistics ; historical pragmatics ; historical sociolinguistics ; Engelska ; English language ; Engelska språket ; English ; engelska ;
Abstract : This dissertation is a corpus-based investigation examining thou and you from 1560 to 1760 in three speech-related genres: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy. Previous research has focused on Drama Comedy; especially little attention has been paid to Depositions. READ MORE
4. The Subject of the Verbal Gerund : A Study of Variation in English
Author : Susanna Lyne ; Merja Kytö ; Hilde Hasselgård ; Uppsala universitet ; [] Keywords : HUMANIORA ; HUMANITIES ; BNC ; British National Corpus ; corpus linguistics ; genitive ; genre ; gerund ; ing-form ; Late Modern English ; linguistic variation ; multivariate analysis ; possessive ; prescriptivism ; Present-day English ; English ; Engelska ;
Abstract : This study deals with variation between possessive/genitive and objective/plain forms of the subject of the verbal gerund clause (VGC) in Present-day and Late Modern British English, as in Would you object to my [me] paying her a visit? and Poor timing of spoonfuls can lead to the child’s [the child] feeling frustrated. According to the traditional prescriptivist view, the possessive/genitive form is the preferred variant. READ MORE
5. Phonological Quantity in Swedish Dialects : Typological Aspects, Phonetic Variation and Diachronic Change
Author : Felix Schaeffler ; Umeå universitet ; [] Keywords : HUMANIORA ; HUMANITIES ; Swedish dialects ; phonological quantity ; vowel and consonant duration ; cluster analysis ; linguistic typology ; phonetic variation ; diachronic change ; Phonetics ; Fonetik ;
Abstract : This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project.The study is explorative in character. READ MORE
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Kelly Wade Petronis . M.A., 2019. Finding the game: a conversation analysis of laughables and play frames in comedic improv Advisor: Ruth Harman
Mohammad Fahad Aljutaily . Ph.D. 2018. The influence of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the variation of Arabic marked consonants in the speech of Gulf Pidgin Arabic : acoustic analysis Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe
Sofia Alexandrovna Ivanova . Ph.D. 2018. Cue weighting in the acquisition of four American English vowel contrasts by native speakers of Russian Co-Advisors: Victoria Hasko and Keith Langston
Elisabeth Wood Anderson Lacross . Ph.D. 2018. Variation in future temporal reference in southern France Advisor: Diana Ranson
Sandra McGury . Ph.D. 2018. Passives are tough to analyze Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
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Ryan Michael Dekker . M.A. 2018. Income effects on speech community: : Oconee County within northeastern Georgia Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe
Nicole Elizabeth Dreier . M.A. 2018. Gender in Proto-Indo-European and the feminine morphemes Advisor: Jared Klein
Melissa Ann Gomes . M.A. 2018. A Holistic Analysis of Get Constructions Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Jason D Hagler . M.A. 2018. Call of qatullu: towards an understanding of the semantic role of terminal root consonant reduplication in the Semitic languages Advisor: Baruch Halpern
Joshua Robert Hummel . M.A. 2017. Conflict's connotation: a study of protest and riot in contemporary news media Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe
Madeline Asher Jones . M.A. 2017. The impact of EFL teacher motivational strategies on student motivation to learn english in Costa Rica Advisor: Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Mariah Lillian Copeland Parker . M.A. 2017. Flippin' the script, joustin' from the mouth: a systemic functional linguistic approach to hip hop discourse Advisor: Ruth Harman
Christa August Rampley . M.A. 2017. Ratchet: an etymological origin & social dispersion theory Advisor: Lewis (Chad) Howe
Joseph Thomas Rhyne . M.A. 2017. Quantifying the comparative method: applying computational approaches to the Balto-Slavic question Advisor: Jared Klein
Wei Chen . Ph.D. 2016. The impact of environmental factors on the production of english narratives by Spanish-English bilingual children Advisor: Liang Chen
Richard Moses Katz Jr . Ph.D. 2016. The resultative in Gothic Advisor: Jared Klein
Martin Jakub Macak . Ph.D. 2016. Studies in classical and modern Armenian phonology Advisor: Jared Klein
Judith Allen Oliver . Ph.D. 2016. When fingerspelling throws a curveball Advisor: William Kretzschmar
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Calvin Ferst . M.A. 2016. Walhalla: language shift in the garden of the gods Advisor: Joshua Bousquette
Maisy Elizabeth French . M.A. 2016. When orthography and phonology collide: an examination of the effect of orthography on the phonetic production of homophones Advisor: Margaret Renwick
Karen Elizabeth Sesterhenn . M.A. 2016. An overview of the phenomenon of doublets in English Advisor: Jared Klein
Steven Slone Coats . Ph.D. 2015. Finland Twitter English: lexical, grammatical, and geographical properties Advisor: William Kretzschmar
Xiangyu Jiang . Ph.D. 2015. Ultimate attainment in the production of narratives by Chinese-English bilinguals Advisor: Liang Chen
Rachel Virginia Nabulsi . Ph.D. 2015. Burial practices, funerary texts, and the treatment of death in Iron Age Israel and Aram Advisor: Richard Friedman
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Olympic Breakdancer Raygun Has PhD in Breakdancing?
Rachael gunn earned a zero in breakdancing at the paris 2024 olympic games., aleksandra wrona, published aug. 13, 2024.
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Gunn's Ph.D. thesis, titled "Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: a B-girl's Experience of B-boying," did cover the topic of breakdancing. However ...
... Gunn earned her Ph.D. in cultural studies. Moreover, a "PhD in breakdancing" does not exist as an academic discipline.
On Aug. 10, 2024, a rumor spread on social media that Rachael Gunn (also known as "Raygun"), an Australian breakdancer who competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics, had a Ph.D. in breakdancing. "This australian breakdancer has a PhD in breakdancing and dance culture and was a ballroom dancer before taking up breaking. I don't even know what to say," one X post on the topic read .
"Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael Gunn has a PhD in breakdancing and dance culture," one X user wrote , while another asked, "Who did we send? Raygun, a 36-year-old full-time lecturer at Sydney's Macquarie University, completed a PhD in breaking culture and is a lecturer in media, creative arts, literature and language," another X user wrote .
The claim also spread on other social media platforms, such as Reddit and Instagram .
"Is she the best break dancer? No. But I have so much respect for going on an international stage to do something you love even if you're not very skilled at it," one Instagram user commented , adding that, "And, I'm pretty sure she's using this as a research endeavor and will be writing about all our reactions to her performance. Can't wait to read it!"
In short, Gunn's Ph.D. thesis, titled "Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl's Experience of B-boying," indeed focused on the topic of breakdancing. However, Gunn earned her Ph.D. in cultural studies, not in breakdancing. Furthermore, it's important to note that a "PhD in breakdancing" does not exist as an academic discipline.
Since Gunn's research focused on the breakdancing community, but her degree is actually in the broader field of cultural studies, we have rated this claim as a "Mixture" of truths.
Gunn "secured Australia's first ever Olympic spot in the B-Girl competition at Paris 2024 by winning the QMS Oceania Championships in Sydney, NSW, Australia," the Olympics official website informed .
Gunn earned a zero in breakdancing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and clips of her routine went viral on social media, with numerous users creating memes or mocking dancer's moves. "As well as criticising her attire, social media users mocked the Australian's routine as she bounced around on stage like a kangaroo and stood on her head at times," BBC article on the topic read .
The website of the Macquarie University informed Gunn "is an interdisciplinary and practice-based researcher interested in the cultural politics of breaking" and holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies, as well as a bachelor of arts degree (Hons) in contemporary music:
Rachael Gunn is an interdisciplinary and practice-based researcher interested in the cultural politics of breaking. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies (2017) and a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Music (2009) from Macquarie University. Her work draws on cultural theory, dance studies, popular music studies, media, and ethnography. Rachael is a practising breaker and goes by the name of 'Raygun'. She was the Australian Breaking Association top ranked bgirl in 2020 and 2021, and represented Australia at the World Breaking Championships in Paris in 2021, in Seoul in 2022, and in Leuven (Belgium) in 2023. She won the Oceania Breaking Championships in 2023.
Gunn's biography further revealed that she is a member of the Macquarie University Performance and Expertise Reasearch Centre, and has a range of teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels "across the areas of media, creative industries, music, dance, cultural studies, and work-integrated learning."
Moreover, it informed her research interests included, "Breaking, street dance, and hip-hop culture; youth cultures/scenes; constructions of the dancing body; politics of gender and gender performance; ethnography; the methodological dynamics between theory and practice."
Gunn earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Media, Music, Communications, and Cultural Studies within the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. Below, you can find the abstract of her paper, shared by the official website of Macquarie University:
This thesis critically interrogates how masculinist practices of breakdancing offers a site for the transgression of gendered norms. Drawing on my own experiences as a female within the male-dominated breakdancing scene in Sydney, first as a spectator, then as an active crew member, this thesis questions why so few female participants engage in this creative space, and how breakdancing might be the space to displace and deterritorialise gender. I use analytic autoetthnography and interviews with scene members in collaboration with theoretical frameworks offered by Deleuze and Guttari, Butler, Bourdieu and other feminist and post-structuralist philosophers, to critically examine how the capacities of bodies are constituted and shaped in Sydney's breakdancing scene, and to also locate the potentiality for moments of transgression. In other words, I conceptualize the breaking body as not a 'body' constituted through regulations and assumptions, but as an assemblage open to new rhizomatic connections. Breaking is a space that embraces difference, whereby the rituals of the dance not only augment its capacity to deterritorialize the body, but also facilitate new possibilities for performativities beyond the confines of dominant modes of thought and normative gender construction. Consequently, this thesis attempts to contribute to what I perceive as a significant gap in scholarship on hip-hop, breakdancing, and autoethnographic explorations of Deleuze-Guattarian theory.
In a response to online criticism of her Olympics performance, Gunn wrote on her Instagram profile: "Don't be afraid to be different, go out there and represent yourself, you never know where that's gonna take you":
We have recently investigated other 2024 Paris Olympics' -related rumors, such as:
- Lifeguards Are Present at Olympic Swimming Competitions?
- Hobby Lobby Pulled $50M in Ads from 2024 Paris Olympics?
- 2024 Paris Olympics Are 'Lowest-Rated' Games in Modern History?
Gunn, Rachael Louise. Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-Girl's Experience of B-Boying. 2022. Macquarie University, thesis. figshare.mq.edu.au, https://doi.org/10.25949/19433291.v1.
---. Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-Girl's Experience of B-Boying. 2022. Macquarie University, thesis. figshare.mq.edu.au, https://doi.org/10.25949/19433291.v1.
Ibrahim, Nur. "Lifeguards Are Present at Olympic Swimming Competitions?" Snopes, 8 Aug. 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/lifeguards-paris-olympics-swimming/.
"Olympic Breaking: Criticism of Viral Breakdancer Rachael Gunn - Raygun - Condemned by Australia Team." BBC Sport, 10 Aug. 2024, https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/articles/c2dgxp5n3rlo.
ORCID. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1069-4021. Accessed 12 Aug. 2024.
Paris 2024. https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/-raygun_1940107. Accessed 12 Aug. 2024.
Saunders, Grant Leigh, and Rachael Gunn. "Australia." Global Hip Hop Studies, vol. 3, no. 1–2, Dec. 2023, pp. 23–32. Macquarie University, https://doi.org/10.1386/ghhs_00060_1.
Wazer, Caroline. "2024 Paris Olympics Are 'Lowest-Rated' Games in Modern History?" Snopes, 1 Aug. 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/paris-olympics-lowest-rated-games/.
---. "Hobby Lobby Pulled $50M in Ads from 2024 Paris Olympics?" Snopes, 8 Aug. 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/olympics-hobby-lobby-ads/.
By Aleksandra Wrona
Aleksandra Wrona is a reporting fellow for Snopes, based in the Warsaw, Poland, area.
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In this dissertation, I seek to construct a model of meaning variation built upon variability in linguistic structure, conceptual structure, and cognitive makeup, and in doing so, exemplify an approach to studying meaning that is both linguistically principled and neuropsychologically grounded. As my test case, I make use of the English lexical item 'have' by proposing a novel analysis of ...
The quantitative results and new questions in this dissertation set the stage for continued progress toward an integrated model of how social, grammatical, and psychological forces contribute to the production of linguistic variation.
Dissertations from 2021. PDF. Linguistic Variation from Cognitive Variability: The Case of English 'Have', Muye Zhang.
Abstract Sociolinguistic study of variation and change has a long-standing bias towards speech communities in Western and especially Anglophone societies. We argue that our field requires a much wider scope for variation studies, which puts more emphasis on culturally contextualised social meaning in the full range of human societies.
variation in the production and use of certain linguistic variables (such as phonemes). Most early language variation research was primarily concerned with the direction and spread of linguistic variables (such as phonemes) over specific and predetermined social variables (such as the age and gender of speakers).
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The effects of linguistic experience on the perceptual classification of phonological dialect variation were investigated in a series of behavioral experiments with naïve listeners.
This is a selection of some of the more recent theses from the department of Linguistics and English Language.
Recommended Citation Durian, David, "The genre of the linguistics article within studies of language variation and change : a diachronic perspective, 1891-2015" (2016). Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations. 5797.
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the existence of dialect humor as a linguistic reality in addition to its most recognized use as a literary device. Dialect humor has been acknowledged in passing by linguists, literary scholars, and humor scholars, but none have given much attention to dialect humor as a component of language study or as more than a trifling component of humor ...
Summary This chapter introduces some of the range of variationist studies, including examples from recent research, and describes interactions with other linguistic fields. It highlights some of the community outreach that variationists perform as a result of their scholarship. It is organized around the following themes: the range of language variation, divisions of language variation, the ...
Description Title Computational measures of linguistic variation: a study of Arabic varieties Author (s) Abunasser, Mahmoud Issue Date 2015-04-08 Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis) Benmamoun, Elabbas Doctoral Committee Chair (s) Benmamoun, Elabbas Committee Member (s) Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark A. Shosted, Ryan Mustafawi, Eiman Department of Study Linguistics Discipline ...
ABSTRACT Linguistic Variation: Confronting Fact and Theory honors Shana Poplack in bringing together contributions from leading scholars in language variation and change. The book demonstrates how variationist methodology can be applied to the study of linguistic structures and processes. It introduces readers to variation theory, while also providing an overview of current debates on the ...
Durian, David, "The genre of the linguistics article within studies of language variation and change : a diachronic perspective, 1891-2015" (2016). Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations. 5797.
In this dissertation, I seek to construct a model of meaning variation built upon variability in linguistic structure, conceptual structure, and cognitive makeup, and in doing so, exemplify an approach to studying meaning that is both linguistically principled and neuropsychologically grounded. As my test case, I make use of the English lexical item 'have' by proposing a novel analysis of its ...
Variation and Language peakers (Crystal, 1995). These coordinated rules and conventions make up the various domains of linguistic knowledge including the lexicon, the phonological and phonetic inventories, syntactic structures, and cultural a
My dissertation investigates the loss of morphological case and grammatical gender in the Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund languages. Crucial language-internal and language-external motivations are considered.
The Effect of Anger and Fear on Forensic Authomatic Speaker Recognition System Performance. The Impact of Face Coverings on Speech Comprehension and Perceptions of Speaker Attributes. Tracking Linguistic Differences in the Ultrasound Images of the Tongue in Spoken and Silent Speech Conditions Using Pose Estimation.
Theses/Dissertations from 2016. Implicit Causality And Consequentiality In Native And Non-Native Coreference Processing, Wei Cheng. Attention Control and The Effects of Online Training in Improving Connected Speech Perception by Learners of English As A Second Language, Burcu Gokgoz-Kurt.
Dissertation Title. 2024. Aini. Li. Inferring dynamics of sociolinguistic variation in speech perception. 2023. Ryan. Budnick. Learning Grammar Distributions with Limited Feedback.
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Theses/Dissertations Since 1999, most theses and dissertations submitted by graduate students at the university are published online in the UGA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Database (ETD). This page is a list of recent theses and dissertations produced by graduates of the University of Georgia M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Linguistics, with a link to the UGA ETD page for the pdf file.
Theses/Dissertations from 2021. PDF. Trademarks and Genericide: A Corpus and Experimental Approach to Understanding the Semantic Status of Trademarks, Richard B. Bevan. PDF. First and Second Language Use of Case, Aspect, and Tense in Finnish and English, Torin Kelley. PDF. Lexical Aspect in-sha Verb Chains in Pastaza Kichwa, Azya Dawn Ladd.
Abstract. A substantive body of research has been revolving around the linguistic features that distinguish different levels of students' writing samples (
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