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 ...
Zaytseva, Victoria (Date of defense: 2016-07-01)
The present study investigates the impact of two different consecutive learning contexts, formal instruction (FI) at home and a 3-month stay abroad (SA), on second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition ...
Polymeneas, Georgios-Alexandros (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
This study presents a multidisciplinary framework for the analysis of evidential meaning in the Greek political discourse during the period of the current European debt crisis, and moving beyond a mere ...
Mehotcheva, Teodora H. (Date of defense: 2010-09-16)
Aquest estudi investiga la pèrdua (attrition) del castellà com a llengua estrangera en estudiants Erasmus holandesos i alemanys. S’investiguen tres tipus de dades: orals, lingüístiques i psicolingüístiques ...
Biau, Emmanuel (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)
Speakers naturally accompany their speech with hand gestures and extend the auditory prosody to visual modality through rapid beat gestures that help them to structure their narrative and emphasize ...
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 ...
Fomicheva, Marina (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
Both manual and automatic methods for Machine Translation (MT) evaluation heavily rely on professional human translation. In manual evaluation, human translation is often used instead of the source text ...
Barnes, Jeremy (Date of defense: 2019-01-28)
Sentiment Analysis is a task that aims to calculate the polarity of text automatically. While some languages, such as English, have a vast array of resources to enable sentiment analysis, most under-resourced ...
Bassaganyas-Bars, Toni (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
Aquesta tesi investiga la interpretació de les frases amb el verb have en anglès. Aquest verb ha generat una gran quantitat de literatura en tots els àmbits de la lingüística, sense que s'hagi arribat ...