Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "language"
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(2015-06-25)Department: Political ScienceMany political decisions have actual life or death consequences. I examine how rhetoric used to discuss these life or death consequences, along with personality predispositions, influence political attitudes. In my first ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: PsychologyCardinality, the ability to state the quantity of a set, is an important skill in the development of precise numerical reasoning abilities. This set of studies investigates the limits of cardinal number knowledge and the ...
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(2016-07-18)Department: Special EducationChildren who exhibit language deficits and behavior problems often underachieve. However, interventions that target children with behavior problems primarily focus on changing behavior, and interventions that aim to improve ...
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(2018-06-20)Department: HistoryMy dissertation project asks a simple question: how did the invading Franks navigate the multifaceted language barrier when they conquered, settled, and ruled Syria in the era of the crusades? This project explores the ...
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(2005-08-13)Department: PsychologyPrevious research suggests that neutral infants have more advanced expressive language abilities, compared to more emotionally expressive infants . Bloom (1993) hypothesized that infants who express more non-neutral affect ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Latin American StudiesIndigenous language speaking students from Latin America are hidden within the larger Spanish speaking, Latinx student population and are Latinized as demonstrated through this study within a school district in the ...
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(2021-07-14)Department: Creative WritingFrom the Inventory of Images I Cannot Unsee is a collection of original poetry that explores Asian American diasporic families, intergenerational influences and inheritances, trauma and recovery, queerness, womanhood, and ...
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(2013-04-17)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation addresses the philosophical problems of meaning and identity in the context of major depression. I provide a phenomenological account of the depressive’s intrapsychic and intersubjective life that is ...
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(2024-03-12)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesNaturalistic language production is integral to daily communication and ubiquitously impaired in aphasia, an acquired language disorder caused by focal brain damage typically due to stroke. Despite its importance, naturalistic ...
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(2015-10-14)Department: PsychologyThis paper examines the relation between intentional communication (i.e., declaratives, imperatives) observed at 12-19 months and expressive language abilities observed one year subsequently, comparing younger siblings of ...
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(2023-03-09)Department: PsychologyThe relationship between language and thought has been one of the most intriguing questions in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and cognitive science and has long been of particular interest in exploring the nature ...
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(2007-04-13)Department: Special EducationSPECIAL EDUCATION SIBLING USE OF RESPONSIVE INTERACTION STRATEGIES ACROSS SETTINGS JENNIFER ALACIA TRENT Dissertation under the direction of Professor Ann P. Kaiser The effects of an intervention designed to facilitate ...
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(2011-12-06)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThe purpose of the study was to examine the developmental effects of duration cues by comparing the phonetic boundaries and slopes of typically-developing (TD) children to adults on a stop-glide continuum, to examine the ...
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(2018-01-17)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to understand the potential benefit of auditory and pictorial components of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) systems in facilitating novel word learning for typically developing ...
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(2024-03-27)Department: Biological SciencesIn order to accurately describe the evolution of traits, researchers must study both their biological and cultural transmission. Socially learned cultural traits have been important for both human and songbird evolution. ...
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(2024-03-27)Department: Biological SciencesIn order to accurately describe the evolution of traits, researchers must study both their biological and cultural transmission. Socially learned cultural traits have been important for both human and songbird evolution. ...
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(2024-03-27)Department: Biological SciencesIn order to accurately describe the evolution of traits, researchers must study both their biological and cultural transmission. Socially learned cultural traits have been important for both human and songbird evolution. ...
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The Effects of Augmentative Assisted Language Matrix Training for Young Children with Down Syndrome (2019-03-29)Department: Special EducationDown syndrome (DS) is an intellectual disability (ID) characterized by a distinct profile of behavioral characteristics that impact language learning. One specific area of challenge is moving from producing single words ...
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(2014-11-26)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesHEARING AND SPEECH SCIENCES The Stability and Validity of Automated Vocal Analysis in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Early Stages of Language Development Tiffany Woynaroski Dissertation under the ...