Rocafiguera Montanyà, Núria de (Date of defense: 2023-01-30)
Pronominal anaphora resolution, and particularly the interpretation of third-person null and overt subject pronouns, is a complex linguistic phenomenon of the syntax-pragmatics interface. On the one ...
Xi, Xiatong (Date of defense: 2023-09-22)
In the realm of second language acquisition of pronunciation, perception-based phonetic training has been shown to be effective in improving L2 perception and production. By incorporating the visual ...
Lagerwaard, Hendrik Dirk (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
Nowadays, we still witness many foreign language classrooms where traditional teaching methods do not enable students to further expand their communicative development. The aim of the sociocultural ...
Pasenkova, Irina (Date of defense: 2020-07-02)
In this dissertation we examine the sphere of the English verbs of speaking (VoS) with 2 components: the manner of speaking component (MoSC) and the component of non-standard speech (CoNS), and their ...
Yuan, Chenjie (Date of defense: 2022-02-01)
This dissertation studies the inferential articulation of speech acts (in particular, assertions and questions) in dialogue, drawing upon two theoretical frameworks, a normative Question Under Discussion ...
Huang, Xiang (Date of defense: 2023-02-06)
Obesity is a pressing health issue and a popular topic in Chinese media. This PhD thesis investigates the metaphors used to talk about obesity in Chinese media. Specifically, this thesis compares the ...
Tovar, Antonia (Date of defense: 2022-11-11)
Language is a core aspect of human cognition and richly interacts with aspects of nonverbal cognition, as evidence from normal development (Perszyk & Waxman, 2018), abnormal development (Schroeder et ...
Vorobyeva, Tamara (Date of defense: 2020-11-24)
Previous research has demonstrated the difficulty of the grammatical gender category for L2 learners and bilingual speakers. The main goal of this study is to investigate the gender agreement by 30 young ...
Hochberg, Amy Dara (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate multilingual health information websites in English, Spanish, and Catalan for comprehensibility and cultural adaptation in terms of language. This study ...
Baills, Florence (Date of defense: 2022-01-21)
Prosodic features of language such as prominence, melody, and rhythm, are frequently embodied by hand movements in face-to-face communication. However, little is known on the role of embodied techniques ...