Theses - Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
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Acquiring and Harnessing Verb Knowledge for Multilingual Natural Language Processing
Advances in representation learning have enabled natural language processing models to derive non-negligible linguistic information directly from text corpora in an unsupervised fashion. However, this signal is underused ... -
The acquisition of finiteness in English by child second language learners in instructed contexts: age of onset and L1 effects
(2021-07-24)This thesis examines the acquisition of finiteness in English by child L2 learners by investigating the impact of the age of onset and the role of the learners’ L1 on their L2 acquisition. Following Meisel’s hypothesis ... -
The production and perception of domain-initial strengthening in Seoul, Busan, and Ulsan Korean
Korean exhibits one of the most consistent examples of the cross-linguistic phenomenon of domain-initial strengthening (hereafter DIS; T. Cho & Keating, 2001; Keating, Cho, Fougeron, & Hsu, 2004). DIS is defined as temporal ... -
Inductive Bias and Modular Design for Sample-Efficient Neural Language Learning
Most of the world's languages suffer from the paucity of annotated data. This curbs the effectiveness of supervised learning, the most widespread approach to modelling language. Instead, an alternative paradigm could take ...
