Browsing by Subject "Linguistics: the Study of the Language Faculty"
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A lexical semantics for musical instrument nouns in Dutch
(2011)In most languages, nominals generally occur with a determiner. In contrast, musical instrument constructions in Dutch can often be bare: not just in the presence of a verb, noun or preposition, but also on their own in ... -
A Neurophysiological Investigation of Experience-Based Processing of Phoneme Substitutions in L2
(2009)Phoneme substitutions, as they typically occur in foreign-accented speech, are the topic of investigation in this study. In particular, th-substitutions by Dutch L2 learners of English are studied to find out whether the ... -
A new Phase for reference in Syntax: An account of wh-extraction phenomena in Germanic within the Phase Reference Model
(2015)Subject/object asymmetries are attested in a large number of languages across the world. One such asymmetry is the so-called that-trace effect, the effect that wh-subject extractions across a complementizer are not allowed, ... -
A perceptual magnet effect in pitch accents: parametric modelling
(2015)This thesis presents the results of two experiments that suggest the presence of a Perceptual Magnet Effect (PME, Kuhl 1991) in pitch accents (linguistically significant fundamental frequency (F0) movements). The perceived ... -
A Puzzle in Binding: Half Reflexives and Locally Bound Pronouns A Comparative Study of Anaphoric Systems in Indonesian, Javanese, Palembangnese, City Jambi and Village Jambi
(2013)The Canonical Binding Theory (Chomsky, 1981) assumes three major classes of expressions, anaphors, pronominals and R-expressions. However, it has been found that many languages have a richer system. In this thesis I ... -
A Research Study on the English Accents of Students in Two International College Campuses
(2014)Scientific research to date has shown speakers’ imitation in both laboratory and non-laboratory conditions. Still, the possibility of students being attracted by the accent of one speaker, physically present in international ... -
A semantics for scalar PAN-constructions
(2014)This thesis aims to provide a degree-based account of the scalar PAN-construction (Van Miltenburg & Zwarts 2013), illustrated in (1 a,b). Such constructions contain a Preposition, an Adjective, and a Noun (usually denoting ... -
Acquisition of the Reflexive and Reciprocal Interpretations of Albanian Anaphors and the Verbal Affix u
(2009)The purpose of this study was to investigate the acquisition of the reflexive pronoun vetvete ´self-self´ and the reciprocal pronoun njëri tjetri ´each other’ and the lexical meaning of the verbal affix u (u like Romance ... -
An articulographical analysis of age-related speaker variaton
(2009)Effects of speech rate on speech kinematics in younger and older adults. -
Aspects of Control
(2010)This thesis presents a new theory of control. It is structured around two independent papers: one on obligatory control (OC), in which I argue for a movement and PRO approach to OC (van Urk, submitted), and one on adjunct ... -
Assessing the impact of frequency and local adaptation mechanisms on child-caregiver language: a recurrence-quantificational approach
(2014)The degree to which the prevalence of words and syntactic structures in child-caregiver language is influenced by (1) their frequency in the other interlocutor's speech and (2) their involvement in local adaptation processes ... -
Attrition and Language Reversion in Dutch-English Migrants in Australia: Working Memory Capacity and Inhibitory Functioning across Languages and Age Groups
(2012)Language changes across a lifetime, in particular among bilingual migrants, who can experience both language attrition and reversion. The question is if cognition skills affect or are affected by attrition and reversion ... -
Australian and Austronesian Anaphora: And Archival Approach
(2010)This is a study of reflexivity in the Australian and Austronesian language families. It consists of two sub-projects. The first sketches an overview of the reflexivisation strategies used in these two families. The second ... -
Auxiliary influences on argument-verb integration in Dutch
(2012)Passive sentences are structurally different from active sentences. In Dutch, passives are expressed with the auxiliaries 'zijn' (to be) and 'worden' (to be[come]), whereas transitive active sentences most often use 'hebben' ... -
Auxiliary Selection and Telicity
(2008)In this thesis, I look at the connection between the selection of auxiliaries HAVE and BE and aspectual properties of sentences like telicity. In discuss arguments that have been proposed against such a relationship, and ... -
Categories of Causative Verbs: a Corpus Study of Mandarin Chinese
(2012)This thesis examines the categories of causative verbs in Mandarin Chinese, including two corpus studies. Previous research has shown a tight relationship between the concept of CAUSE as it is described in the psychological ...