Markina, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-02-01)
The present study explores the impact that task-supported language teaching (TSLT) and task- based language teaching (TBLT) have on the acquisition of case forms and verbs of motion in Russian and on ...
Zhang, Qing (Date of defense: 2017-09-07)
Vocal learning, one of the subcomponents of language, is put at center stage in this dissertation. The overall hypothesis is that vocal learning lays the foundation for both language evolution (phylogeny) ...
Shi, Ruoyang (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
[eng] This thesis examines a hitherto uninvestigated aspect of formal thought disorder (FTD), a core symptom of schizophrenia that manifests itself as speech which is difficult to follow often to the ...
Schroeder, Kristen (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
Reference is a phenomenon both fundamental to communication and inherent to every act of language use. Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are marked by problems of both communication and language. This ...
Valldepérez Castillo, Mª Soledat (Date of defense: 2017-01-12)
The main aim of this dissertation consists in evaluating the oral language taught in EFL textbooks considering the influence of the Spoken Production and Interaction descriptors in the Common European ...
Lloberes Salvatella, Marina (Date of defense: 2016-09-06)
Because parsers are still limited in analysing specific ambiguous constructions, the research presented in this thesis mainly aims to contribute to the improvement of parsing performance when it has ...
Benavent Chàfer, José Vicente (Date of defense: 2020-02-14)
The focal point of this PhD thesis is (foreign/native) speaker perception and recognition. To test such phenomena, jurors from British and Spanish universities were selected to answer ad hoc perception ...
Vila Borrellas, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
Understanding questions is key for successful communication. Although deficits in communication are the hallmark of Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC), how both yes/no-questions and wh-questions are ...