Daniel Josef Gashler and Professor Walter Whipple, Germanic and Slavic Languages The Celts and Slavs were widespread and important cultural phenomena in Iron-Age Europe. Their influence is still felt in contemporary Europe and the Americas. Many states and peoples speak modern languages derived from proto-Celtic and proto-Slavonic. The purpose of my research is to show that […]
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Language Policy and Language Planning in Post-Colonial Mozambique
James Dewey and Dr. Willis C. Fails, Spanish and Portuguese Mozambique, located on the southeast African coast, gained its independence from Portugal in 1975. Since that time, the Mozambican government has faced numerous problems such as a sixteen-year civil war, famines, flooding, and extreme poverty. In addition, the government faces unique linguistic challenges including how […]
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Teaching Early Literacy Skills in a Dual-Language Program
Melissa Willes and Dr. Barbara Culatta, Audiology and Speech Language Pathology Effective literacy skills are essential to success in life. In order to gain these skills, a strong literacy foundation must be established during childhood. Any impairment of this skill has a profound effect on the life of a child. Children with delayed literacy skills […]
Nonconformance in Children with Specific Language Impairment
Kathryn S. Todd and Dr. Martin Fujiki, Audiology and Speech Language Pathology Children diagnosed with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) “exhibit significant limitations in language functioning that cannot be attributed to deficits in hearing, oral structure and function, or general intelligence” (Leonard, 1987). Recently, research revealed children with SLI also demonstrate difficulty in social interaction. As […]
LANGUAGE FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES AT BYU — BUSINESS RUSSIAN
David V. Shurtleff and Dr. David K. Hart, Germanic and Slavic Languages Business language courses were taught at American universities as early as the 1920’s but did not gain widespread acceptance until the 1980’s. A major reason for the growth of Language for Special Purposes (LSP) was the report of the President’s Commission on Foreign […]
SIMILARITY AND CONTIGUITY OF FORM AND MEANING: A PARADIGM OF GRAMMATICAL GENDER CHANGE IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES
Eve A. Ross and Dr. Cynthia L. Hallen, Linguistics Gender in language is currently a hot topic in linguistics and related fields. One somewhat neglected branch of this subject is grammatical gender. Grammatical gender refers to the gender of a word that does not correspond to the gender of the real world object the word […]
THE LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE AND CONFERENCE TRANSLATION
Rebecca M. Rosenlund and Dr. Cynthia Hallen, Linguistics Every six months, millions of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints gather to hear the voice of a living prophet and other leaders and teachers. They look forward to the counsel and insight that they will receive for themselves and their families as […]
Understanding of Emotion in Children with Specific Language Impairment
Melanie D. Javid and Dr. Martin Fujiki, Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have difficulties with language comprehension and production that is not attributed to other disabilities. Studies have shown that these children are also at risk for social problems. These social problems are assumed to be the outcome of the […]
Synonymity of Memorized Patterns: Considering Patterns and Word Order in Unsupervised Language Learning
Steve Hulet and Dr. Sean Warnick, Computer Science Despite the ever-increasing abilities of computers, natural language analysis is still a challenge. The intricacies of natural language are far too many to enumerate, giving rise to automated algorithms which learn how the language is used from large text corpora. Many current methods use complex statistical approaches […]
AUGUSTINE’S THEORY OF LANGUAGE; ITS INTEGRATION WITH HIS ONTOLOGICAL THOUGHT
John Rather and Dr. James Siebach, Philosophy In the Confessions, St. Augustine writes that his conversion to Christianity was made possible by a prior conversion to philosophy. By the time of his Christian conversion, and for the rest of his life, Augustine’s philosophical and theological views were most deeply affected by Neoplatonism. It was by […]
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