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Linguistic change can be caused by the diachronic evolution of languages, or by external factors,... more Linguistic change can be caused by the diachronic evolution of languages, or by external factors, such as language contact. In this dissertation, language internal changes and the effects of language contact on linguistic change are studied by analyzing four properties normally associated with the pro-drop parameter (phonologically null subjects, SV inversion, expletives, and that-trace filter) in Dominican Spanish (DS). The internal diachronic change is studied in forty DS speakers from two areas of the Dominican Republic (DR): El Cibao (n = 20) and Santo Domingo (n = 20). DS has been said to be undergoing an internal diachronic change towards a non-null subject language, but still reflecting properties of null subject languages, and El Cibao has been considered the area leading this linguistic change. A study of the four pro-drop properties mentioned above by speakers from Santo Domingo and El Cibao, two distinct geographical areas in the I wish to thank sincerely the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and to my dissertation committee. I would like to express special gratitute to my director Dr. Liliana Sánchez, as well as Dr. José Camacho, and Dr. Nydia Flores, two of my committee members, for their incisive and decisive contibutions in defining the statistical analysis methodology followed in this study. I am very thankful to Dr. Thomas Stephens for his great contribution to my dissertation committee, his unconditional guidance and support, and his professionalism, and to Dr. Jacqueline Toribio for serving as the external member of my committee and providing wonderful suggestions and comments. My special appreciation goes to Jennifer Flaherty, Rosy Ruiz, and Marisa Orsogna, for all their help, assistance, and friendship during my stay at Rutgers.
CALICO Journal, 2011
This study provides specific evidence regarding the extent to which quantitative measures, common... more This study provides specific evidence regarding the extent to which quantitative measures, common sense notional measures, and comprehensive measures adequately characterize spontaneous, although engaged, speech. As such, the study contributes to the growing body of literature describing the current limits of automatic systems for evaluating spoken proficiency, provides examples of the essential nature of various notional and comprehensive variables, supports continued development of hybrid systems, and includes suggestions for the possible utilization of additional variables for automatic analyses. Data for this study were gathered and analyzed as follows. After 4 weeks of activities related to career development, 20 native English speaking college freshmen made recordings in English explaining their career preferences. Three experiments were then conducted. Experiment 1 analyzed the recordings according to current quantitative analyses used in fully automatic evaluations of fluency. Experiment 2 examined the recordings through a perception study according to common everyday notions of fluency. Experiment 3 analyzed the recordings according to an adaptation of the comprehensive rubrics used by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) for evaluating oral proficiency. The comprehensive evaluation (Experiment 3) provided the most insight, and temporal quantitative measures (Experiment 1) provided the least insight concerning the proficiency of the 20 speakers.
Linguistic change can be caused by the diachronic evolution of languages, or by external factors,... more Linguistic change can be caused by the diachronic evolution of languages, or by external factors, such as language contact. In this dissertation, language internal changes and the effects of language contact on linguistic change are studied by analyzing four properties normally associated with the pro-drop parameter (phonologically null subjects, SV inversion, expletives, and that-trace filter) in Dominican Spanish (DS). The internal diachronic change is studied in forty DS speakers from two areas of the Dominican Republic (DR): El Cibao (n = 20) and Santo Domingo (n = 20). DS has been said to be undergoing an internal diachronic change towards a non-null subject language, but still reflecting properties of null subject languages, and El Cibao has been considered the area leading this linguistic change. A study of the four pro-drop properties mentioned above by speakers from Santo Domingo and El Cibao, two distinct geographical areas in the I wish to thank sincerely the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and to my dissertation committee. I would like to express special gratitute to my director Dr. Liliana Sánchez, as well as Dr. José Camacho, and Dr. Nydia Flores, two of my committee members, for their incisive and decisive contibutions in defining the statistical analysis methodology followed in this study. I am very thankful to Dr. Thomas Stephens for his great contribution to my dissertation committee, his unconditional guidance and support, and his professionalism, and to Dr. Jacqueline Toribio for serving as the external member of my committee and providing wonderful suggestions and comments. My special appreciation goes to Jennifer Flaherty, Rosy Ruiz, and Marisa Orsogna, for all their help, assistance, and friendship during my stay at Rutgers.
The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society: Annual Review, 2012
The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society: Annual Review, 2012
The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society: Annual Review, 2012
Linguistic change can be caused by the diachronic evolution of languages, or by external factors,... more Linguistic change can be caused by the diachronic evolution of languages, or by external factors, such as language contact. In this dissertation, language internal changes and the effects of language contact on linguistic change are studied by analyzing four properties normally associated with the pro-drop parameter (phonologically null subjects, SV inversion, expletives, and that-trace filter) in Dominican Spanish (DS). The internal diachronic change is studied in forty DS speakers from two areas of the Dominican Republic (DR): El Cibao (n = 20) and Santo Domingo (n = 20). DS has been said to be undergoing an internal diachronic change towards a non-null subject language, but still reflecting properties of null subject languages, and El Cibao has been considered the area leading this linguistic change. A study of the four pro-drop properties mentioned above by speakers from Santo Domingo and El Cibao, two distinct geographical areas in the I wish to thank sincerely the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and to my dissertation committee. I would like to express special gratitute to my director Dr. Liliana Sánchez, as well as Dr. José Camacho, and Dr. Nydia Flores, two of my committee members, for their incisive and decisive contibutions in defining the statistical analysis methodology followed in this study. I am very thankful to Dr. Thomas Stephens for his great contribution to my dissertation committee, his unconditional guidance and support, and his professionalism, and to Dr. Jacqueline Toribio for serving as the external member of my committee and providing wonderful suggestions and comments. My special appreciation goes to Jennifer Flaherty, Rosy Ruiz, and Marisa Orsogna, for all their help, assistance, and friendship during my stay at Rutgers.
CALICO Journal, 2011
This study provides specific evidence regarding the extent to which quantitative measures, common... more This study provides specific evidence regarding the extent to which quantitative measures, common sense notional measures, and comprehensive measures adequately characterize spontaneous, although engaged, speech. As such, the study contributes to the growing body of literature describing the current limits of automatic systems for evaluating spoken proficiency, provides examples of the essential nature of various notional and comprehensive variables, supports continued development of hybrid systems, and includes suggestions for the possible utilization of additional variables for automatic analyses. Data for this study were gathered and analyzed as follows. After 4 weeks of activities related to career development, 20 native English speaking college freshmen made recordings in English explaining their career preferences. Three experiments were then conducted. Experiment 1 analyzed the recordings according to current quantitative analyses used in fully automatic evaluations of fluency. Experiment 2 examined the recordings through a perception study according to common everyday notions of fluency. Experiment 3 analyzed the recordings according to an adaptation of the comprehensive rubrics used by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) for evaluating oral proficiency. The comprehensive evaluation (Experiment 3) provided the most insight, and temporal quantitative measures (Experiment 1) provided the least insight concerning the proficiency of the 20 speakers.
Linguistic change can be caused by the diachronic evolution of languages, or by external factors,... more Linguistic change can be caused by the diachronic evolution of languages, or by external factors, such as language contact. In this dissertation, language internal changes and the effects of language contact on linguistic change are studied by analyzing four properties normally associated with the pro-drop parameter (phonologically null subjects, SV inversion, expletives, and that-trace filter) in Dominican Spanish (DS). The internal diachronic change is studied in forty DS speakers from two areas of the Dominican Republic (DR): El Cibao (n = 20) and Santo Domingo (n = 20). DS has been said to be undergoing an internal diachronic change towards a non-null subject language, but still reflecting properties of null subject languages, and El Cibao has been considered the area leading this linguistic change. A study of the four pro-drop properties mentioned above by speakers from Santo Domingo and El Cibao, two distinct geographical areas in the I wish to thank sincerely the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and to my dissertation committee. I would like to express special gratitute to my director Dr. Liliana Sánchez, as well as Dr. José Camacho, and Dr. Nydia Flores, two of my committee members, for their incisive and decisive contibutions in defining the statistical analysis methodology followed in this study. I am very thankful to Dr. Thomas Stephens for his great contribution to my dissertation committee, his unconditional guidance and support, and his professionalism, and to Dr. Jacqueline Toribio for serving as the external member of my committee and providing wonderful suggestions and comments. My special appreciation goes to Jennifer Flaherty, Rosy Ruiz, and Marisa Orsogna, for all their help, assistance, and friendship during my stay at Rutgers.
The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society: Annual Review, 2012
The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society: Annual Review, 2012
The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society: Annual Review, 2012