Jia, Shiwei. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-114). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

Ho, Pui Kwan. / "November 2010." / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-75). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / List of figures --- p.vi / List of tables --- p.viii / Abbreviations --- p.ix / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1. --- Overview --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2. --- Thesis organization --- p.6 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Background / Chapter 2.1. --- Brain structure and its functional organization --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2. --- Introduction to lateralization investigation techniques --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.1. --- Lesion studies and Wada test --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2.2. --- Dichotic listening --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.3. --- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2.4. --- Electroencephalography(EEG) & event-related potential(ERP) --- p.16 / Chapter 2.2.5. --- Other brain imaging techniques --- p.20 / Chapter 2.2.6. --- Comparing different brain-imaging techniques in this study --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3. --- Literature review and the current work --- p.21 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- "The functional and acoustic ""dichotomy""" --- p.22 / Chapter 2.3.2. --- Studies on lateralization of tones without linguistic context --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3.3. --- Studies on lexical tone lateralization --- p.27 / Chapter 2.3.4. --- The current work ´ؤ aim and hypothesis --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Methodology / Chapter 3.1. --- Stimuli --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2. --- Subject --- p.41 / Chapter 3.3. --- Task design --- p.41 / Chapter 3.4. --- ERP recording and data processing --- p.44 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Results and discussions / Chapter 4.1. --- Behavioural data analysis --- p.46 / Chapter 4.2. --- ERP data analysis --- p.48 / Chapter 4.3. --- Discussions --- p.52 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Further discussions / Chapter 5.1. --- Is lateralization of lexical tone language-specific? --- p.57 / Chapter 5.2. --- Toward a model of speech lateralization --- p.59 / Chapter 5.3. --- An implication on tone feature systems --- p.60 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Conclusion / Chapter 6.1. --- Conclusion --- p.65 / Chapter 6.2. --- Future work --- p.67 / References --- p.68 / Appendix / Chapter A.1. --- Edinburgh handedness test --- p.76 / Chapter A.2. --- Handedness scores --- p.77

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-130).

 This thesis focuses on a special type of construction in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese long discussed in the literature, namely resultative constructions. The interest of the study lies in the fact that resultative constructions involve an interesting mismatch phenomenon of the mapping of grammatical functions and semantic roles. Since grammatical functions and semantic roles are the building blocks of syntax and semantics, the mapping between grammatical functions and semantic roles is considered a manifestation of the syntactic and semantic interface and it is believed that the study of the mapping between them will shed light on the form and meaning association found inhuman language. However, while an adequate mapping theory can reflect how human experience or meaning is expressed in language, the mapping between grammatical functions and semantic roles is neither linear nor mutually correspondent on a one-to-one basis, rendering the nature of its mechanism obscure. In this thesis, the interface between the semantic and syntactic realizations of resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese will be investigated. The goal is to seek an optimal approach which can provide a more satisfactory account in handling mapping of Mandarin and Cantonese resultatives and explaining the special properties of the V-V structures involved in Mandarin and Cantonese resultative constructions. Drawing from the insights of previous accounts and the properties of resultative constructions, a working definition for resultatives is proposed. Through reviewing some current mapping accounts and revealing their inadequacies and limitations in handling grammatical functions and semantic roles mapping in resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, I am going to argue that Jackendoff’s (1990) conceptual semantics approach provides an optimal structure for the representation of resultative compounds in particular and the resultative constructions in general in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. I also want to argue that the investigation of the resultative constructions in Mandarin and Cantonese not only sheds light on the prospect of applying Jackendoff’s (1990) conceptual semantics approach to understanding other types of constructions and special phenomena in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, but also indicates a new direction of study in the possible multiple sense involved in Mandarin and Cantonese compounds. / published_or_final_version / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy

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This thesis investigates a number of phonological phenomena in Picard, a Gallo-Romance dialect spoken France: Across-Word Regressive Assimilation and its variation patterns, and the domain-sensitive strategies that the language employs in the Resolution of Vocalic Hiatus (i.e. Semivocalization, Vowel Elision and Heterosyllabification). More generally, the thesis is about "variation" in its broadest sense. It explores variation that occurs within a single prosodic domain as well as the type of variation that operates across domains; while the former is variable and triggered by linguistic and extralinguistic factors (and is thus the subject of sociolinguistic investigation), the latter is invariable and strictly determined by domains. For the analysis of these two types of "variation", I adopt the framework of Optimality Theory. One of the advantages of this framework is that it allows us to account for domain-driven and sociolinguistic variation within a language by means of a single grammar. In the context of domain-sensitive phenomena, this can be accomplished by the decomposition of constraints into their domain-specific counterparts, each of which may be ranked independently within a single grammar to yield the alternations observed across domains. Based on this line of research and influenced by insights from Prosodic Phonology, I propose an approach to the decomposition of constraints in which only prosodic domains may serve for constraint specification. I argue that this is advantageous because it constrains the grammar by imposing limitations on the types of domains that may be subject to decomposition, and captures Prosodic Phonology's view that the interface between phonology and morphosyntax must be indirect, that is, mediated by domains from the prosodic hierarchy. In the context of variation triggered by linguistic and extralinguistic factors, I argue that variable patterns are best analyzed as the result of crucial nonranking of constraints. A posit / Cette these examine un nombre de phenomenes phonologiques dans le Picard, un dialecte Gallo-roman parle en France : l' Assimilation regressive a travers le mot et les patrons de variation qui gouvement ce processus, ainsi que les strategies sensibles aux domaines que la langue emploie pour la Resolution de hiatus vocalique (i.e. Formation de semi-voyelles, Elision vocalique et Heterosyllabification). Plus generalement, la these traite de la « variation,» dans son sens le plus large. Elle explore la variation qui se produit dans un seul domaine prosodique de meme que le type de variation qui opere a travers les domaines; tandis que le premier est variable et declenche par des facteurs linguistiques et extra-linguistiques (etant ansi le sujet d'investigations sociolinguistiques), le dernier est invariable et strictement determine par les domaines. Pour l'analyse de ces deux types de « variation », j'adopte le cadre theorique de la theorie de l'optimalite. L'un des avantages de cette theorie est qu'elle nous permet d'expliquer les variations qui s'appliquent a la fois par le domaine phonologique et par les facteurs sociolinguistiques gouvernant une langue au moyen d'une seule grammaire. Dans le contexte de phenomenes sensibles aux domaines, ceci peut etre accompli par la decomposition de contraintes dans leurs homologues qui sont specifiques sur les domaines, dont chacun peut etre independamment classe dans une seule grammaire pour produire les alternances observees entre les domaines. Base sur cette ligne de recherche et influence par les fondements de la Phonologie prosodique, je propose une approche a la decomposition de contraintes selon laquelle seulement les domaines prosodiques peuvent servir pour la specification de contraintes. Je soutiens que cette approche offre des avantages marques, parce qu' elle contraint la grammaire en imposant des limitations sur les types de domaines qui peuvent etre sujets a la decomposition. De plus, cette approche est compa

Originally presented as author's Thesis (Doctoral)--Université de Provence.