Programa de Doctorat en Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge: Recent submissions
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Silence speaks volumes a fine-frained analysis of pause production reveals group differences on the spectrum of cognitive decline
Previous evidence suggests that increased pause production in spontaneous speech can indicate cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and that this may depend on the linguistic context of the pause, such as syntactic ...
Object naming from lexical systems to language use and back
When referring to the objects they see, speakers choose a word from the lexical system to name them. This process involves using a word with a general meaning to refer to a specific object, which possesses unique features ...
Analysing social biases toward migrant groups encoded in language models
Embedding models are powerful machine-learning-based representations of human language used in a myriad of Natural Language Processing tasks. Due to their ability to learn underlying word association patterns present in ...
Modelo semántico y computacional para análisis del conflicto armado en Colombia
La disponibilidad de herramientas conceptuales para la descripción y la extracción en un determinado dominio de conocimiento es fundamental para garantizar el acceso a la información. En contextos de conflictos armados ...
A Discurse afterlife: representations of the political life, death, and continued presence of Marielle Franco]
This dissertation is an exploration of discourses representing the political life, death, and continued presence of Marielle Franco following her assassination on 14 March 2018. Marielle Franco was a councilwoman in the ...
Exploring the nexus of language and thought: a comparative analysis of spontaneous speech in aphasia and schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Our language capacity emerges robustly and universally in development, it lies at the heart of our human experience from the beginning of a human life, and remains relatively stable across the lifespan. Yet its vulnerability ...
Interpreting the learning dynamics of language models
Language models (LMs) have evolved to become remarkably capable yet similarly complex and intransparant systems. Our ability to understand how they achieve their outstanding traits – i.e. making them interpretable – can ...
Referent predictability in pronoun production insights from a multi-methodological exploration
While it is known that speakers tend to use more reduced forms (e.g., by shortening or deleting segments) for words or phrases that are semantically predictable from context, it is contentious whether the same phenomena ...
Verbal gerunds in English: a case study in natural language ontology and referentiality
This thesis investigates the two verbal gerunds in English: POSS-ing (Clay’s winning the game) and ACC-ing (Clay winning the game). It is widely recognized that they do not denote events, but there are many different ...
Producción videográfica en L2: prácticas translingüísticas e identifidación de los creadores transnacionales en Douyin
En esta tesis exploramos una práctica creativa emergente en las selvas digitales: la producción videográfica en idioma extranjero o adicional (L2), con el objetivo de indagar cómo los aprendices de L2 construyen y negocian ...
The Evolution of disease terms of western medicine in Chinese (1915-2020) and suggestions for terminology policy in China
In this doctoral thesis, we address the study of the linguistic evolution of Western medicine disease terms in the Chinese language from 1915 to 2020. This is a parameter that has not yet been investigated in the specialized ...
The Representation of youth language in fictional dialogue in english and its translation into catalan
This dissertation describes youth language as it is represented in contemporary novels published in English and its subsequent translation into Catalan. Youth language is especially appealing for the study of written fiction ...
Interactive language learning in deep network agents
Recent advances in language modeling led to remarkable performance in many NLP applications. However, the static and passive learning imposed by the nexttoken- prediction objective makes models suboptimal when deployed in ...
Traducción y recepción del teatro de Chéjov en Cataluña en el siglo XXI: El caso de «дядя ваня» [L'oncle Vània. Tío Vania]
La presente tesis doctoral estudia el proceso de la integración del teatro de Antón Chéjov en Cataluña en el siglo XXI, enfocándose en las traducciones de la obra «Дядя Ваня» [L’oncle Vània. Tío Vania] al catalán y al ...
La derivació en llengua de signes catalana (LSC): per una morfologia de l'LSC
Aquesta tesi estudia la morfologia de la llengua de signes catalana (LSC) des d’un punt de vista lexicalista i morfofonològic a través del procés de la derivació. Les anàlisis es basen en un model integrat a partir de ...
L'Estabilitat referencial i la dominança lingüística en el marcatge diferencial d'objecte en el bilingüisme català-espanyol
El marcatge diferencial d’objecte (MDO) és un fenomen complex, regulat per factors nominals, verbals i pragmàtics. L’animacitat i l’estabilitat referencial dels objectes (Aissen, 2003, Farkas i von Heusinger, 2003) són dos ...
Writer-reader relationship and technicality of vocabulary in multilingual health information websites in English, Spanish, and Catalan
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate multilingual health information websites in English, Spanish, and Catalan for comprehensibility and cultural adaptation in terms of language. This study questions whether there ...
Processing of sentential meaning: behavioural and electroencephalographic evidence in neurotypical and Williams syndrome adult populations
Meaning in any naturalistic utterance has a dual aspect: one is lexical-semantic memory, which enters into utterances in the form of words that we remember and retrieve; the other is the specific kind of meaning carried ...
Multimodal phonetic training: the benefits of hand gestures on learning L2 sounds
In the realm of second language acquisition of pronunciation, perception-based phonetic training has been shown to be effective in improving L2 perception and production. By incorporating the visual modality of the speaker’s ...
Structural language change in Alzheimer's disease: a study of spontaneous speech tasks across different stages of cognitive impairment
Linguistic characteristics of spontaneous connected speech are showing increasing potential for detecting and tracking cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease, and could be particularly suitable to study at-risk populations ...
