Avello, Pilar (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
The present study investigates the impact of a 3-month study abroad (SA) period on second language (L2) phonological development in speech production by means of acoustic-phonetic measures, as well ...
Găluşcă, Cristina-Ioana (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
Human cultures abound in arbitrary symbols and behaviors acquired effortlessly, mostly through social interactions. Here we explore how social aspects of an interaction (ostensive signals) affect the ...
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 ...
Spalek, Alexandra Anna (Date of defense: 2014-05-20)
Even though it is an intuitive and perhaps obvious idea that composition leads to non-trivial semantic interactions between words, and these interactions affect the contents of predication, there has ...
Sánchez García, Carolina (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
El objetivo de esta tesis es investigar los mecanismos predictivos que operan de forma online durante la percepción audiovisual de una lengua. La idea de que existen mecanismos predictivos que actúan ...
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 ...
Navarrete Terrassa, Antonio (Date of defense: 2006-09-05)
Els datasets geogràfics representen la realitat mitjançant un conjunt d'entitats temàtiques que sovint no estan definides d'una manera precisa i que diferents persones poden entendre de diferents formes. ...
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 ...
Ruiz Tada, Elisa (Date of defense: 2019-01-28)
As the world experiences increased international mobility, we encounter those from different racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. Therefore it is increasingly crucial to examine the ways we ...
Lara, Ann Rebecca (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
Study abroad (SA) as an integral part of university studies is often seen by students, educators and institutions alike as an important means of boosting foreign language skills; yet, still little is ...