Aina, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
This thesis studies the information that an expression and its context contribute to ambiguity resolution, focusing on the syntactic, lexical, and referential levels, and on the English language. I ...
Cepak, Roberta (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)
This study examines the opinions of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and hearers of Spain with regards to the subtitling services currently offered by the Spanish Digital Television, with the aim of integrating ...
Cussel, Mattea (Date of defense: 2023-01-23)
The object of study of this thesis is a special case of translation: the Anglophone literature of writers of Caribbean or Latin American origin in the United States translated into Spanish. This case ...
Rohrer, Patrick Louis (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
Human language is essentially multimodal in that speakers use multiple channels to convey meaning, including speech prosody and gesture (e.g. Mondada, 2016; Perniss, 2018). In the last decades, studies ...
Ginovart Cid, Clara (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)
While (translation) technology and the language industry continue to evolve, varieties of professional profiles and nuances to the relevant skillsets emerge. The field of machine translation post-editing, ...
Slušná, Dominika (Date of defense: 2022-03-31)
Language impairment forms a broader spectrum in humans than current diagnostic labels such as specific language impairment suggest. This thesis is about language capacities at the neglected bottom end ...
Sorodoc, Ionut-Teodor (Date of defense: 2022-04-11)
In this thesis, I tackle the ability of deep neural networks to represent entities, and I assess the extent to which this feature impacts tasks involving entities. I consider two standard architectures, ...
Chapin, Kayla (Date of defense: 2023-06-30)
Linguistic characteristics of spontaneous connected speech are showing increasing potential for detecting and tracking cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease, and could be particularly suitable to ...
Chimeva, Yordanka (Date of defense: 2021-07-14)
Telecollaboration through videoconferencing is one way of responding to the present situation in education resulting from the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as from globalization and innovation in ...
Cañas Peña, Sara (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)
This thesis provides a morphosyntactic description of polar questions and a pragmatic analysis of biased questions in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Polar questions in LSC are obligatorily marked with ...