Zhang, Yuan (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
In the last decades, a growing number of studies have investigated the relationship between two unique abilities of humankind, music and language. Music and language share important structural similarities ...
Peng, Li (Date of defense: 2021-07-30)
In the last few decades, the use of hand gestures that encode phonological features of the target language has been proven to play a positive role in L2 suprasegmental learning. However, less is known ...
González Fuente, Santiago (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
This dissertation takes an integrated approach to the study of audiovisual cues to verbal irony. While pragmatic studies have mainly focused on the role of the discourse context in irony detection, ...