Kushch, Olga (Date of defense: 2018-03-09)
Previous research has shown that gestures are beneficial for language learning. This doctoral thesis centers on the effects of beat gestures– i.e., hand and arm gestures that are typically associated ...
Chimeva, Yordanka (Date of defense: 2021-07-14)
Telecollaboration through videoconferencing is one way of responding to the present situation in education resulting from the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as from globalization and innovation in ...
Cañas Peña, Sara (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)
This thesis provides a morphosyntactic description of polar questions and a pragmatic analysis of biased questions in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Polar questions in LSC are obligatorily marked with ...
Muñoz Basols, Javier Francisco (Date of defense: 2012-03-09)
This thesis examines the relationship between sound, meaning, humor and culture through the lens of translation. It illustrates the relevance of sound to determining the meaning of words by analyzing ...
Parra López, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Much research has been conducted on language variation and marked speech in its various forms, such as dialects, registers, and styles. There is one variety, however, which seems to have been broadly ...
Rocafiguera Montanyà, Núria de (Date of defense: 2023-01-30)
Pronominal anaphora resolution, and particularly the interpretation of third-person null and overt subject pronouns, is a complex linguistic phenomenon of the syntax-pragmatics interface. On the one ...
Barquin, Elisa Leslie (Date of defense: 2012-10-29)
While study abroad at the university level has been shown to benefit many aspects of second language proficiency, little is known about how this affects participants’ writing skills. The present study ...
Meza Meza, Nohelia (Date of defense: 2017-09-08)
One of the major challenges in electronic literature is the search for literariness in the works. This topic is still largely debated among scholars due to the diverse representations that the literary ...
Richtarcikova, Veronika (Date of defense: 2018-02-15)
Reference via adjectives typically requires an intermediate step: nominalization through overt derivational affxing. However, many languages allow even unaffixed adjectives to be used referentially. ...
Quixal Martínez, Martí (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)
Esta investigación se encuentra en la encrucijada entre el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural y el Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras y, en concreto, dentro del área denominada Aprendizaje ...