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Accentual paradigms in the Baltic and Slavic verbMatson, Susan Ann, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.
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An adaptive interactive teaching system for programming languagesFabens, William James Hail, January 1970 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.
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SPQL : the design of a relational preference query language /Ning, Wei. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (M.Sc.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Computer Science. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-126). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11872
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Topics in the grammar and documentation of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central VanuatuThieberger, Nick. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, 2004. / Title from PDF file as viewed 9/8/05. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [497]-508)
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The Lemko and Slavic palatalizations : an acoustic and perceptual approach to historical phonology /Schwartz, Geoffrey Joseph. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-130).
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An Initial Reconstruction of Proto-Boro-GaroWood, Daniel Cody 12 1900 (has links)
xvi, 138 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / This study attempts to reconstruct Proto-Boro-Garo (PBG), the ancient language
from which the modern Boro-Garo (BG) family evolved. BG is a largely underdocumented
sub-branch of Tibeto-Burman that is spoken primarily in the Brahmaputra
valley of northeastern India. While other comparative studies have focused on PBG
phonology, this study concentrates on grammatical elements and syntactic structures. An
initial reconstruction is attained by examining data from the limited number of
descriptive grammars available on BG languages and using the comparative method to
determine the oldest forms of grammatical elements. Where elements correspond across
languages, they can be reconstructed for the common ancestor. When they do not, we
have evidence for independent innovation. This is accounted for, when possible, by
language-internal reconstruction. / Committee in Charge: Dr. Scott DeLancey, Chair;
Dr. Spike Gildea
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The phonological hierarchy of the White Mountain dialect of Western ApacheGreenfeld, Philip John, 1943-, Greenfeld, Philip John, 1943- January 1972 (has links)
No description available.
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Vowel harmonies of the Congo Basin : an optimality theory analysis of variation in the Bantu zone CLeitch, Myles Francis 05 1900 (has links)
A central claim of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993, McCarthy and Prince
1993a) is that phonological variation can be modeled through the variable ranking of
universal constraints. In this thesis, I test this claim by examining variation in the tongue
root vowel harmony system in a number of closely related yet distinct Bantu languages of
Congo and Zaire. The twenty-odd languages are drawn from each of Guthrie 1967's eight
Bantu C. subgroups and are shown to vary along a number of dimensions. One is
morphological, related to whether or not the harmonic element in the lexical root extends
to prefixes and suffixes. This variation is shown to follow from the variable ranking of
constraints that seek to ALIGN the harmonic feature, [retracted tongue root] ([rtr]) with
the edges of the morphological domains STEM and WORD. A second parameter of
variation concerns the relationship between high vowels and [rtr]. A third dimension
involves the interaction of [rtr] with the low vowel [a] under harmony. Here, three
patterns involving (i) low vowel assimilation, (ii) low vowel opacity, or (iii) low vowel
transparency under harmony are shown to follow from the variable ranking of a few
constraints. A significant theme that emereges in the study is recognizing and
characterizing the distinct morphological and phonological domain edges involved in
vowel harmony. An important contribution of this study is in bringing to light a language
family where phonological tongue height, in this case expressed by the feature [low], is
shown to be incompatible with tongue root retraction, as expressed in the feature [rtr].
Although the gestures of tongue body lowering and tongue root retraction are
sympathetic in the articulatory dimension and in their acoustic effect, they are seen to be
phonologically hostile, in fact, because of the redundancy relation between them. This
redundancy-based phonological incompatibility is implemented via licensing-failure:
[low] fails to "license" [rtr] because lowness implies retraction (Ito, Mester and Padgett
1994). / Arts, Faculty of / Linguistics, Department of / Graduate
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Using language similarities in retrieval for resource scarce languages: a study of several southern Bantu languagesChavula, Catherine 13 July 2021 (has links)
Most of the Web is published in languages that are not accessible to many potential users who are only able to read and understand their local languages. Many of these local languages are Resources Scarce Languages (RSLs) and lack the necessary resources, such as machine translation tools, to make available content more accessible. State of the art preprocessing tools and retrieval methods are tailored for Web dominant languages and, accordingly, documents written in RSLs are lowly ranked and difficult to access in search results, resulting in a struggling and frustrating search experience for speakers of RSLs. In this thesis, we propose the use of language similarities to match, re-rank and return search results written in closely related languages to improve the quality of search results and user experience. We also explore the use of shared morphological features to build multilingual stemming tools. Focusing on six Bantu languages spoken in Southeastern Africa, we first explore how users would interact with search results written in related languages. We conduct a user study, examining the usefulness and user preferences for ranking search results with different levels of intelligibility, and the types of emotions users experience when interacting with such results. Our results show that users can complete tasks using related language search results but, as intelligibility decreases, more users struggle to complete search tasks and, consequently, experience negative emotions. Concerning ranking, we find that users prefer that relevant documents be ranked higher, and that intelligibility be used as a secondary criterion. Additionally, we use a User-Centered Design (UCD) approach to investigate enhanced interface features that could assist users to effectively interact with such search results. Usability evaluation of our designed interface scored 86% using the System Usability Scale (SUS). We then investigate whether ranking models that integrate relevance and intelligibility features would improve retrieval effectiveness. We develop these features by drawing from traditional Information Retrieval (IR) models and linguistics studies, and employ Learning To Rank (LTR) and unsupervised methods. Our evaluation shows that models that use both relevance and intelligibility feature(s) have better performance when compared to models that use relevance features only. Finally, we propose and evaluate morphological processing approaches that include multilingual stemming, using rules derived from common morphological features across Bantu family of languages. Our evaluation of the proposed stemming approach shows that its performance is competitive on queries that use general terms. Overall, the thesis provides evidence that considering and matching search results written in closely related languages, as well as ranking and presenting them appropriately, improves the quality of retrieval and user experience for speakers of RSLs.
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The Definite Article: Its Evolution in Late Latin and Its Usage in Old FrenchAdams, Leonard January 1967 (has links)
A survey of demonstrative usage in Classical Latin, an assessment of the syntactical significance of ille and iste in Late Latin, together with conditions favouring the evolution of the definite article, and an examination of articular usage in Old French up to the Chanson de Roland. / Master of Arts (MA)
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