Note: many dissertations can be read in full on UVic's DSpace service.

 

PhD Dissertations

Qian Wang. 2008. Perception of English stress by Madarin Chinese learners of English: An acoustic study. (supervised by H. Lin)

Yuko Igarashi. 2007. The Changing Role of Katakana in the Japanese Writing System: Processing and Pedadogical Dimensions for Native Speakers and Foreign Learners. (supervised by J.F. Kess)

Ruth Anne Dyck. 2004, Prosodic and Morphological Factors in Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh) Stress Assignment. (supervised by E. Czaykowska-Higgins).

Mihoko Teshigawara. 2003. Voices in Japanese Animation: A Phonetic Study of Vocal Stereotypes of Heroes and Villains in Japanese Culture (supervised by J.H. Esling).

Marie Louise Willett. 2003, Word Formation in Nxa'amxcin. (supervised by L. Saxon & E. Czaykowska-Higgins).

Sandra Kirkham. 2001. Tempo Modulations in English (supervised by J.H. Esling).

Paul Hopkins. 2001. The Phonological Structure of the Kashubian Word (supervised by E. Czaykowska-Higgins).

Shahrzad Saif. 1999. Theoretical and Empirical Considerations in Investigating Washback: A Study of EFL and ESL Learners. (supervised by J. H. Esling)

Karen Woodman. 1998. A Study of Linguistic, Perceptual and Pedagogical Change in a Short-Term Intensive Language Program. (supervised by J. H. Esling)

Susan Fitzgerald. 1997. Velar-Initial Etyma and Issues in Comparative Pama-Nyungan. (supervised by G. N. O'Grady)

Tadao Miyamoto. 1997. The Light Verb Construction in Japanese: The Role of the Verbal Noun. [Published by John Benjamins, 1999.] (supervised by L. Saxon)

Yang Wei. 1997. Speech Errors in Chinese: A Psycholinguistic Study. (supervised by J. F. Kess)

Deirdre Black. 1996. The Morphological and Phonological Structures of Spokane Lexemes. (supervised by B. F. Carlson)

Suying Yang. 1995. The Aspectual System of Mandarin Chinese. (supervised by T. E. Hukari)

Hyong-Joong Kim. 1995. Korean and Lushootseed Salish from a Functional Perspective. (supervised by T. M. Hess)

Paul Kofi Agbedor. 1994. Language Planning for National Development: The Case of Ghana. (supervised by B. P. Harris)

Hua Lin. 1993. On the Nature of Mandarin Tone and Tone Sandhi. [Published as Mandarin Tonology, Pyramid Press, Taiwan, 1996.] (supervised by B. F. Carlson)

Chiharu Uda. 1992. Complex Predicates in Japanese: An Approach in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. [Published as Complex Predicates in Japanese, Garland Press, Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, 1994.] (supervised by T. E. Hukari)

Judith A. Nylvek. 1992. Canadian English in Saskatchewan: A Sociolinguistic Survey of Four Selected Regions. (supervised by B. P. Harris)

Kritchada Potter. 1991. A Culture-Based Instructional Program for Teaching Thai Language to Foreigners. (supervised by B. P. Harris and P. Evans)

Ping Xue. 1991. Syntactic Dependencies in Chinese and their Theoretical Implications. (supervised by T. E. Hukari)

Nimal Pannakitti Parawahera. 1990. Phonology and Morphology of Modern Sinhala. (supervised by B. F. Carlson)

Yong-Bum Kim. 1988. A Fragment of Korean Phrase Structure Grammar. (supervised by T. E. Hukari)

Gaelan T. De Wolf. 1988. A Study of Selected Social and Regional Features in Canadian English: A Comparison of Phonological Variables and Grammatical Items in Ottawa and Vancouver. (supervised by H.J. Warkentyne)

MA Theses

Thomas Magnuson. 2008. What /r/ Sounds Like in Kansai Japanese: A Phonetic Investigation of Liquid Variation in Unscripted Discourse. (supervised by H. Lin)

SooYoun Ham. 2008. Tsilhqut'in Ejectives: A Descriptive Phonetic Study. (supervised by L. Saxon)

Cristina Petersen. 2008. Project-based Learning through the Eyes of Teachers and Students: Investigating Opinions of PBL in Adult ESL. (supervised by H. Nassaji)

Ya Li. 2008. Mandarin Speakers' Production of English and Mandarin Post-Vocalic Nasals: An Acoustic Approach. (supervised by H. Lin)

Nicholas Welch. 2008. Northwest Passage: Northern Athabaskan Copulas and Auxiliaries. (supervised by L. Saxon)

Scott Moisik. 2008. A Three-Dimensional Model of the Larynx and the Laryngeal Constrictor Mechanism: Visually Synthesizing Laryngeal and Pharyngeal Articulations Observed in Laryngoscopy. (supervised by J. Esling)

Linda Smith. 2008. Súwh-tˆs’éghèdúdính: the Tsìnlhqút’ín Nímính Spiritual Path. (supervised by L. Saxon)

Laura Hawkes. 2007. Recasts Revisited: The role of recasts in error detection and correction by adult ESL students. (supervisor H. Nassaji)

Carolyn Pytlyk. 2007. Shared Orthography: Do shared written symbols influence the perception of native-nonnative sound contrasts? (supervised by H. Lin)

Janet Leonard.  2006. Formalising Stress in SENĆOŦEN.  (supervised by E. Czaykowska-Higgins)

Claire Turner.  2006. The SENĆOŦEN Resultive Construction.  (supervised by S. Urbanczyk)

Xianghua Wu.  2006. (Non-)categorical Perception of Mandarin Tones: A Comparison Between Speakers of Tone and Non-tone Languages.  (supervised by H. Lin)

Juliane de la Campa.  2006.  Amount, Purpose, and Teacher Awareness of L1 Use in the Foreign Language Classroom.  (supervised by H. Nassaji)

Rachel Strandquist.  2005.  Article Incorporation in Mauritian Creole.  (supervised by S. Urbanczyk)

Anjali Lowe.  2005.  Sustaining Multiculturalism: Problems and Priorities for Heritage Languages.  (supervised by J.F. Kess)

Yunjuan He.  2004.  The Production of English/L/by Mandarin Speakers.  (supervised by H. Lin)

Reza Falahati. 2004. A contrastive Study of Hedging in English and Farsi Academic Discourse. (supervised by H. Nassaji).

Lisa Bettany. 2004. Range Exploration of Phonation and Pitch in the First Six Months of Life. (supervised by J.H. Esling).

Yuko Igarashi. 2004. Language Policy and Planning for Linguistic Minorities in Japan: Proposals toward Multiculturalism through the Analysis of Language Education for Children of Japanese-Brazilians. (supervised by J. Kess).

Shadiya al-Hashmi. 2004. The Phonology of Nasal n in the language of the Holy Qur'an. (supervised by E. Czaykowska-Higgins & J.H. Esling).

Khalsa Hamed al-Aghbari. 2004. Broken Plurals in the Muscat Dialect of Omani Arabic. (supervised by S. Urbanczyk).

Ryan James Waldie. 2004. Nuu-chah-nulth Denominal Verbs. (supervised by T. Hukari).

William J. Lewis. 2004. Central Kalapuya Phonology: The segmental inventory of John Hudson's Santiam. (supervised by T. Hukari).

Aliki Marinakis (Norah Alice). 2004. Seeking Simplicity: The preference for minimal syllable structure in Dogrib. (supervised by E. Czaykowska-Higgins & L. Saxon).

Shannon West. 2003. Subjects and Objects in Assiniboine Nakoda. (supervised by L. Saxon).

Laura Anne Bateman. 2003. Interdisciplinary. Soprano, Style and Voice quality: Acoustic and Larynographic Correlates. (supervised by A. Schloss & J.H. Esling).

Chris Bodenbender. 2003. The Punctuation and Intonation of Parentheticals. (supervised by J.H. Esling).

Jingbo Yang. 2002. Chinese-English Bilingual Education in China: The Implication of Content-Based Instruction. (supervised by H. Lin).

Lei Hong. 2002. Foreign Language Classroom Discussion through the Internet: An Experimental Study of Intermediate Learners of Mandarin Chinese as a Foreign Language. (supervised by H. Lin).

Man Gao. 2002. Tones in Whispered Chinese: Articulatory Features and Perceptual Cues. (supervised by J.H. Esling).

Heather Steel. 2002. Telling the Truth: A Linguistic Analysis of Narrative Construction in the Cross-Examination of Canadian Aboriginal Witnesses. (supervised by J.F. Kess).

Mavis Smith. 2002.Keeping Tabs on Idioms: A Sociolinguistic Study of the Use of English Idioms. (supervised by B.P. Harris).

Melanie Sauer. 2001. Complaints: A Cross-Cultural Study of Pragmatic Strategies. (supervised by J.H. Esling).

Vi Linh Taylor. 2001. Tense Usage in Academic Writing: A Cross-Disciplinary Study. (supervised by J.H. Esling).

John van Loon. 2000. Using Pauses to Improve Listening Comprehension in Second Language Learners. (supervised by M. Warbey and B. P. Harris).

Melissa Svendsen. 2000. The Typology of Wh-Questions: An Optimality Theoretic Approach. (supervised by L. Saxon).

Suzanne Cook. 1999. Rhetorical Structure of a Lushootseed Narrative. (supervised by T. M. Hess)

Ashley Burnett. 1999. The Role and Reliability of Sociolinguistic Variables in Speaker Identification. (supervised by B. P. Harris).

Manami Iwata. 1999. Implying "No" in Japanese: Sociolinguistic Analysis of Japanese Refusals. (supervised by B. P. Harris).

Vicky Man. 1999. An Acoustic Study of the Effects of Sentential Focus on Cantonese Tones. (supervised by J. H. Esling).

Murray Schellenberg. 1998. Acoustic Effect of Vocal Warm-ups on Singers' Voices. (supervised by J. H. Esling).

Lynn Heap. 1998. A Phonetic Model of the Human Pharynx. (supervised by J. H. Esling).

Kathy Kai-yu Hwang. 1998. Psycholinguistic Aspects of Word Recognition in Chinese Orthography. (supervised by J. F. Kess)

Pamela Rubidge. 1997. Computer-Mediated Communication: An Analysis of ESL Discourse. (supervised by J. H. Esling).

Violet Bianco. 1996. The Role of Sonority in the Prosody of Cowichan. (supervised by E. Czaykowska-Higgins).

David McKercher. 1996. On the Syntax and Semantics of English Adverbials. (supervised by T. E. Hukari).

Levan Kverenckiladze. 1995. Words with an Uncertain Future: A Sociolinguistic Study of Russian Borrowings in Georgian. (supervised by B. P. Harris).

David Beck. 1995. A Comparative Conceptual Grammar of Bella Coola and Lushootseed. (supervised by L. Saxon).

Susan Doyle. 1995. Plain Language from the Perspective of a Register Theory. (supervised by B. P. Harris)

Yoshinobu Muta. 1994. Pitch Variation between L1 and L2: A Cross-Cultural/Gender Comparison--Japanese and English. (supervised by J. H. Esling).

Yumi Yanagizaki. 1994. The Genetic Association of Ainu. (supervised by B. P. Harris).

Evan Williams. 1993. On a Certain Tension in Linguistics: Noam Chomsky and Roy Harris. (supervised by T. E. Hukari).

Norman Bendle. 1993. Bilingual Acquisition and Metalinguistic Development: A Study in Context. (supervised by J. H. Esling).

Brenda Orser. 1993. Stem-Initial Pharyngeal Resonants ¿, ¿w, in Spokane, Interior Salish. (supervised by B. F. Carlson).

Xia Zhang. 1993. The Effect of Cross-Cultural Content Schemata on ESL Reading Comprehension of Beginners. (supervised by J. H. Esling and J. Harker).

Shu-Chen Chen. 1992. Initial *w in Pama-Nyungan. (supervised by G. N. O'Grady).

Christopher Whitney. 1992. Language, Literacy, and the Developing World. (supervised by B. P. Harris).

Sandra Kirkham. 1992. Reduplication in Lushootseed: A Prosodic Analysis. (supervised by T. M. Hess)

Susan Fitzgerald. 1991. Initial *ng- in Pama-Nyungan. (supervised by G. N. O'Grady).

Paul Hopkins. 1991. Stress in Kashubian. (supervised by B. F. Carlson).

Laura Proctor. 1990. Conjunctions and Knowledge Acquisition from Text. (supervised by J. F. Kess).

Erica Hoffman. 1990. A Preliminary Phonology of Bana. (supervised by G. N. O'Grady).