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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 11, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3130. Adviser: Kimberly L. Geesin.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 22, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-10, Section: A, page: 3929. Adviser: Kimberly L. Geeslin.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2005. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2194. Adviser: James F. Lee. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed on Nov. 27, 2006)."

It was the purpose of this study to gather primary source material, and corroborate that material whenever possible, concerning the creative genesis of each of the twenty-two published trade books for children written by Howard Pease. It attempted to determine to what extent Pease's past experiences were incorporated into his novels, as well as those external forces which influenced the genesis of these trade books.

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This study investigated the nature of the relationship between working memory (WM) and sentence processing by examining interference effects in sentence comprehension and relating those to performance on a set of WM tasks, executive function tasks, and vocabulary tests. For online sentence comprehension, semantic interference effects were negatively correlated with semantic retention capacity. Syntactic interference effects were negatively related only to reading span. These results are consistent with the multiple capacities account (Martin & Romani, 1994), which postulates that there are separable retention abilities for semantic, syntactic, and phonological information, with the first two being critical for sentence comprehension. For offline sentence comprehension, participants with better semantic STM, WM span, vocabulary, or Stroop performance showed less difficulty in semantic interference resolution. These results were consistent to some extent with multiple capacities account, the general resources account (Just & Carpenter, 1992) and retrieval-based interference account (Van Dyke, 2007). Keywords: Interference effect, Working memory capacity, Cue-based retrieval, Sentence processing

Are subjects produced differently based on the transitivity of the clause they are embedded in? Based on data from a narrative reading experiment, it is shown that transitive subjects are produced with a lower f0 than intransitive subjects and that this difference is statistically significant (p∠0.05). It is suggested that the purpose for such a difference originates from a propensity for English speakers to accent new referents, which are common in the object position. By lowering the f0 of the subject, speakers increase the efficacy of an accent on a new object later in the clause. Finally, the read narrative procedure is evaluated for its strict control of stimuli, while also reproducing known intonational phenomena.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0545. Adviser: Anna Maria Escobar. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-137) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0498. Advisers: Gary Cziko; Kim McDonough. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-90) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.