Theses - Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
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Neutral Tone in Mandarin: Representation and Interaction with Utterance-level Prosody
In Standard Mandarin, there are syllables that do not carry any of the four citation tones (T1: High-level tone, T2: Mid-rising tone, T3: Low-convex tone and T4: High-falling tone), and they are said to have a neutral tone ... -
Injecting Inductive Biases into Distributed Representations of Text
(2021-11-12)Distributed real-valued vector representations of text (a.k.a. embeddings), learned by neural networks, encode various (linguistic) knowledge. To encode this knowledge into the embeddings the common approach is to train ... -
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 ...
