Aliaga-Garcia, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Adult second language learners often experience major difficulties in perceiving and producing non-native speech sounds. Several perception training studies (Iverson & Evans, 2007; Nishi, & Kewley-Port, ...
Moldovan, Andrei (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)
This thesis focuses on the semantics of definite descriptions (DDs). In chapter 1 I introduce a framework for doing compositional semantics for natural language that follows Heim and Kratzer (1998) and ...
Slusher, Katherine (Date of defense: 2014-01-13)
This dissertation is a comprehensive analysis of the prints produced by Man Ray (1890-1976) over a period of sixty-two years. It is the first in-depth look at Man Ray within the context of 20th century ...
Valério, Miguel Filipe Grandão (Date of defense: 2016-04-08)
The aim of this dissertation is to advance our knowledge of Cypro-Minoan, a group of undeciphered syllabic inscriptions dated roughly to the 16th or 15th through the 11th centuries BCE and found mostly ...
Ribas Segura, Catalina (Date of defense: 2013-12-13)
This thesis presents original research: it examines the constructs of duty and obedience in post-World War II Greek-Australian and Chinese Australian literature and compares the strategies these first- ...
Speakman, Robert J. (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)
Mimbres-Mogollon people inhabited areas of southwestern New Mexico from approximately A.D. 200–1150, with settlements located primarily in the Gila, Mimbres, and Rio Grande Valleys and immediate adjacent ...
Rosich Pagès, Gerard (Date of defense: 2015-12-09)
This PhD has pursued three different and interconnected objectives, each corresponding to one of the three parts of the PhD. In Part I, a historical reconstruction is provided in order to present the ...
Marcos Alonso, Susana (Date of defense: 2017-06-20)
The nursing profession in Bangladesh has undergone substantial development over recent decades but still faces significant challenges. A remarkable gap has been described between the institutionally-accepted ...
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) ...
García-Granero Fos, Juan José (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)
Understanding how human societies adapted to past environmental and climatic variability is fundamental to face present and future climatic events, particularly in highly vulnerable arid and semi-arid ...