Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Language"
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Abnormal auditory and language pathways in children with 16p11.2 deletion
(Elsevier, 2015)Copy number variations at chromosome 16p11.2 contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study seeks to improve our understanding of the biological basis of behavioral phenotypes ... -
Automatic Speech Recognition as a Clinical Tool: Implications for Speech Assessment and Intervention
(2022-10-27)Clinician judgments for speech assessment and treatment are subjective and costly, especially for large datasets. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, designed to transcribe spoken speech, present a possible objective ... -
Creciendo juntos: Cultural Pathways in Mexican-Origin Childrens Spanish and English Oral Language Development in Early Childhood
(2023-08-17)This dissertation helps elucidate the cultural pathways linked to Latinx children’s early Spanish and English oral language development and contributes to the field’s understanding of within-group variability in bilingual ... -
Critical Inquiries into Language Ideologies and Pedagogies in a Linguistically Diverse, Reform-Minded Urban Middle School
(2022-05-12)Research underscores that hegemonic stances toward non-mainstream languages and language varieties are prevalent in the larger educational landscape and have potential to cause harm for linguistically diverse student ... -
Cultural Memory in Contemporary Narrative: Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano Series
(2013-02-21)This dissertation discusses Italy’s bestselling author Andrea Camilleri’s series of Montalbano crime novels. It poses the question of what makes Camilleri’s series so successful in the contemporary literary marketplace and ... -
Discourse and Construction: Kant, Schleiermacher, and the Articulation of Epistemology's Language Problem
(2021-05-14)This dissertation establishes a theoretical framework for a critique of “textualist” interpretation, particularly as textualism occurs in theological and jurisprudential contexts. Textualists tend to use deductive reasoning, ... -
Examining the Authenticity of Plato’s Epistle VII through Deep Learning
(2021-06-03)Plato’s Epistle VII, a text in which the famous Athenian philosopher describes his political involvement in the affairs of 4th-century B.C.E Syracuse, has long been considered dubious by classical philologists. In particular, ... -
The First Scale of Attention: Linguistic Form and Aesthetic Experience in the Novel
(2013-08-27)We read a novel one sentence at a time. The first scale of attention for even the longest novel is the play of forces within the thousands of individual sentences. This project aims to rescale the analysis of novelistic ... -
Heterogeneity within primary progressive aphasia (PPA): differences between variants in functional communication, and a new sub-variant of logopenic variant PPA
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is an acquired neurodegenerative syndrome that has specific and devastating effects on an individual’s speech and language ability. Based on a detailed assessment of behavior and cognition, ... -
I Want to Go to the Future Please: Jenny Holzer and the End of a Century
(2013-03-18)The task of this dissertation is to assess the historical conditions that permitted Jenny Holzer to formulate a practice premised on language and conceptions of public space to break from historical avant-garde and ... -
Investigating the Neural Correlates of Voice versus Speech-Sound Directed Information in Pre-School Children
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Studies in sleeping newborns and infants propose that the superior temporal sulcus is involved in speech processing soon after birth. Speech processing also implicitly requires the analysis of the human voice, which conveys ... -
Language for an unknowable future: How language ideologies and pedagogies shape the lives of refugee children
(2022-06-06)Abstract There are currently 65 million people living as refugees globally, half of whom are of school-going age, and these numbers are on the rise. Within this context, refugee education policy is increasingly focused ... -
The Language of Implicit Preferences
(Elsevier BV, 2010)Are attitudes affected by the language in which they are expressed? In particular, do individual preferences shift to accord with the cultural values embedded in a given language? To examine these questions, two experiments ... -
Linguistic Distancing and Emotion Regulation: Theoretical, Developmental, and Translational Perspectives
(2021-09-10)Psychological disorders, especially internalizing disorders like anxiety and depression, cause immense human and economic burden across the globe. Prior work shows that internalizing disorders are characterized by perturbations ... -
Parenting and Early Language Development of Young Children in South Korea
(2021-05-10)Following the social interactionist and language socialization theories, language development research points to the importance of parents’ role in shaping children’s early experiences and their development. Although there ... -
Queerly Legal and Legally Queer: The Political Capacity of Law in South Korean Queer Activism
(2023-11-21)South Korean queer movements have increasingly played out as legal campaigns in the past decade. In sharp contrast to its early years from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, law has emerged for activists as the most potent ... -
Thinking in Words: Implicit Verbal Activation in Children and Adults
(2013-10-08)The relationship between language and thought has long been a topic of interest and controversy in cognitive science. In this dissertation, I address one aspect of this issue: when is language present during internal ...