Thesis (B.Sc.Hons.) - University of Queensland, 2006. / Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253).

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007. / Title from screen (viewed on June 11, 2007) Department of World Languages and Cultures, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-84)

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Thesis (M. Communication Pathology)--Universiteit van Pretoria, 1974. / Includes bibliographical references.

For decades local knowledge has been seen as an important requirement of property valuers in both residential and commercial markets, when undertaking valuations. Following criticisms of valuation methods in the early 1990's local knowledge became a mandatory requirement of professional surveying organisations in the UK. Despite this prominence no formal definition exists as to the nature or content of local knowledge. Based on empirical research involving a valuation experiment, postal questionnaire and depth interviews with residential valuers in England and Wales, this thesis provides a broader understanding of local knowledge in respect of the open market valuation of residential property. The research critically examines the literature relating to both local knowledge and current valuation practice (the environment in which local knowledge is required). Consideration is also given to professional knowledge and learning from a theoretical perspective. Based on the research undertaken, the thesis reinforces the need for practitioners to have knowledge of the area. The thesis highlights that valuers without local knowledge are more likely to produce inaccurate valuations, and may be drawn into errors in the selection of evidence. At the same time they will take longer to produce a valuation. However, different degrees of familiarity exist, which also impacts on the valuation process. A definition of local knowledge is provided, as are the factors which underpin this knowledge in terms of the inspection, selection of evidence and appraisal. The thesis also demonstrates how knowledge generally remains within the local milieu and the barriers to the transportability of valuation knowledge are discussed. Given the willingness of valuers to value in unfamiliar areas, the thesis concludes that a mandatory licensing system should be introduced to remove the problems associated with valuing in unfamiliar areas.

Research on the acquisition of grammatical gender has shown that for many languages, children gain an early command of gender. However, often in these languages gender marking is quite overt and provides a clear one-to-one correspondence between a marker and the gender encoded. In Welsh, gender marking is more complex. Gender is marked by mutations, a set of morphophonological changes that affect the initial consonants of words, and the mapping between mutation and gender is quite opaque. Two mutation types are used in part to mark feminine gender: both feminine nouns modified by the definite article and adjectives following feminine nouns undergo Soft Mutation, and the feminine gender of the possessive adjective ei is marked by Aspirate Mutation on the modified noun. The four studied in this thesis examined children's productive command of gender as expressed in the mutation of nouns modified by the definite article, of adjectives modifying nouns, and of nouns modified by the homonymic feminine and masculine possessive adjective. Mutation in non-gendered contexts was also examined. Subjects were 4- to 9 1I2-year-old children from North Wales. First, a seminaturalistic study was conducted to obtain knowledge about children's ability with gender marking. A Cloze procedure was also used to elicit children's production of masculine and feminine forms, both real words and nonsense forms, in a variety of linguistic contexts. Some of these contexts provided cues to gender status, some did not. The data obtained indicated that the acquisition of the Welsh gender system is a drawn-out process, and children have not mastered the system even by 9 112years of age. In addition, children become proficient in marking feminine nouns modified by the definite article and adjectives modifying feminine nouns before they do so on nouns modified by feminine ei. Results suggest that when a language has a complex gender system that is marked by opaque morpho-phonological processes the course of development is protracted and variable.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-08-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:47Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 lucchesi_ecl_me_arafcl.pdf: 585791 bytes, checksum: 215c4be7d4c3331237caabd9a094ef1a (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho pretende estudar as possíveis relações existentes entre os postulados foucaultianos quanto à constituição do sujeito e a aquisição de linguagem. Para tanto, partiremos de uma perspectiva que considera a criança não apenas um aprendiz passivo, mas um sujeito construtor de seu conhecimento de mundo pela mediação do outro. Trata-se de abordagem discursiva que considera a interação com o outro a base sobre a qual a criança se constitui como sujeito sócio-histórico-cultural. Do ponto de vista de Foucault, analisaremos as técnicas de si e a hipótese de que, no contexto familiar e nos contextos interativos da criança com o outro, em que se estabelecem as relações cognivito-linguísticas, há o jogo dessas técnicas numa relação mediada pelo cuidado de si, que para Foucault, são práticas de subjetivação. Dentre essas técnicas figuram as cartas, o exame de si, a escrita de si – hupomnêmata - e a askêsis. Encontramos também outras técnicas, tais como a interpretação dos sonhos, o exomologêsis, a exagoreusis, a obediência, a contemplação. Diante disso pretendemos observar a constituição do sujeito pela perspectiva do cuidado de si, levando-se em conta que são as práticas de subjetivação e o fato de que, para se compreender como o sujeito se constitui, primeiramente, devemos compreender como os adultos conduzem as crianças no desenvolvimento de sua subjetividade. O corpus compreendeu registros colhidos no período de 13 meses (estudo longitudinal), em áudio e vídeo, totalizando 10 sessões, de uma criança na faixa etária entre 20 e 33 meses, em atividades habituais com os pais: jantar, banho, etc. Constatamos, a partir da análise dos dados, que os pais, no exercício de condução da criança em seu desenvolvimento social, se colocam como reguladores/mediadores e auxiliadores... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaix / This research aims to study the possible relations between the postulates about the Foucauldian constitution of the subject and the language acquisition. Both from the perspective social Interactionist considers the child, not just a passive learner, but a subject constructor of their knowledge by the world mediation with the other (De Lemos, 1999). This is a discursive approach that considers the dialogical interaction (BAKHTIN, 1995) with others (VYGOTSKY, 2005) on the basis in which the child is constituted as a social subject. It is based on the techniques of self and the assumption that the family context and the contexts between the child with others, in which the relations are built with cognitive-language, there is the game of these techniques in a relation mediated by self-care, which for Foucault is practical subjectivity. Among these techniques are the letters of self examination, the self writing - hupomnemata - and askesis. We also found other techniques such as interpretation of dreams, the Exomologesis the exagoreusis, the obedience, contemplation. Even this, the aim is to observe the constitution of the subject from the perspective of self-care, taking into account what are the practices of subjectivities and the fact that to understand how the subject is constituted, first, we must understand how adults lead children in developing subjectivity. The corpus includes monthly recordings of a period of 10 months (longitudinal study), in audio and video, of a child aged from 20 to 30 months in usual activities with parents: dinner, bath etc.. We see from the analysis of the data, parents in the exercise of the conduct of the child in his social development, being the mediators and helpers to put into practice the self techniques themselves. we could notice as well, that although parents are always present some other techniques... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

This thesis looked at the concept of sonority and its influence in the acquisition of complex coda consonant clusters by ESL Spanish speakers. An experiment was performed to test the relationship between the sonority values of the segments of final complex clusters and the rate of errors. The goal of this thesis was to test the hypothesis that the Sonority Sequencing Principle was a powerful linguistic constraint that affected the acquisition of L2 phonology. The findings confirmed the idea that sonority played a crucial role in the phonological acquisition of L2 learners. Subjects reduced the least sonorant segment of the final cluster in order to achieve the minimal sonority descent. The choice of the segment could not be attributed to possible L1 interference since Spanish did not license complex codas and any final obstruents except /s/. The minimal sonority distance factor effected the rate of errors. Subjects produced more errors in clusters where the sonority distance between their segments was small (e.g., one, two, and three).

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