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Author:

Souza, Benjamin J.

Title:

Hiatus Resolution in Spanish: An Experimental Study

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

linguistics
Spanish
phonology
hiatus
diphthong
laboratory
phonetics

File:

Download SouzaDissertationFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry Gerfen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Gerfen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Brunow, Beate Ursula Hanna

Title:

DRAMATIC INQUIRIES: ENCOUNTERING DISCOURSES ON WOMEN ARTISTS’ CREATIVE CONFLICTS

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

women artists
gender
women writers
turn-of-the-century
drama

File:

Download B._Brunow_Dissertation2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ursula Bettina Brandt, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Jacqueline J A Reid Walsh, Committee Member
Jennifer Ann Wagner Lawlor, Committee Member

Author:

Botero, Christopher G

Title:

Factors underlying the improvement of L2 phonological production using technology outside the classroom

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

teaching with technology
second-language acquisition
phonetics

File:

Download BOTERO_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Chip Gerfen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chip Gerfen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
John Andres Ochoa, Committee Member

Author:

Counselman, David

Title:

Improving Pronunciation Instruction in the Second Language Classroom

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

L2 Pronunciation
Phonology in SLA
SLA

File:

Download CounselmanD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paola Eulalia Dussias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry J Gerfen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
William Robert Blue, Committee Member

Author:

Lehmann, Dirk

Title:

German in Every Particular? From Historic Settlement to Theme Towns: Examples of “Little Germanies” in America.

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

heritage tourism
theme towns
tourism
historic settlements
German immigration
Leavenworth Washington
Frankenmuth Michigan
Helen Georgia
Hermann Missouri
German settlement
German
wine
Lutheran missionaries

File:

Download thesis_final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Francis Gerard Gentry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
A Gregg Roeber, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
William Pencak, Committee Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Committee Member

Author:

Kismet Bell, Jameson Bradley

Title:

From Allegory to Emblem: Uncovering the Brain in Lorenz Fries’ Spiegel der Artzney and Hans von Gersdorff’s Feldtbuch der Wundartzney

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

History of Medicine
History of Surgery
History of the Brain
Renaissance Epistemology
Art History
Visualization
Performance Studies
Ventricle Theory
Lorenz Fries
Hans von Gersdorff
Inner Senses
German Literature

File:

Download KismetbellfinaleTDsubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Hagner, Committee Member
Joan Landes, Committee Member
Dennis Schmidt, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Brown, Joshua R.

Title:

Religious Identity and Language Shift among Amish-Mennonites in Kishacoquillas Valley, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Anabaptist
Amish-Mennonite
religious identity
sectarian
language shift

File:

Download Brown_2011_Religious_Identity_and_Language_Shift.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Richard Page Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member

Author:

Davis, Kristopher Allen

Title:

Second Language Phonological Acquisition: The Role of Musical Aptitude

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Accent
Language
Phonetics
Individual Differences
Accentedness
Music
Phonology

File:

Download Electronic_Dissertation_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Chip Gerfen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Chip Gerfen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
John Andres Ochoa, Committee Member

Author:

Shelton, Michael

Title:

AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO SYLLABLE WEIGHT AND STRESS IN SPANISH

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

experimental phonology
speech production
syllable weight
phonotactics
Spanish stress
psycholinguistics

File:

Download Shelton2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry J Gerfen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Nicolás Gutiérrez Palma, Committee Member

Author:

Schleeter, Michael Thomas

Title:

Sentiment Without System: An Hegelian Reconsideration of the Communitarian Critique of Liberalism

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

Hegel
liberalism
communitarianism

File:

Download MichaelSchleeterDiss.pdf

Committee Members:

Dennis Schmidt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dennis Schmidt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Daniel Joseph Conway, Committee Member

Author:

Isenberg, Noelle Ariane

Title:

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES IN WEB-BASED AND CLASSROOM-BASED GERMAN LANGUAGE EDUCATION AT THE POST-SECONDARY LEVEL: VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE PROCESSING, AND ORAL PROFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

age
phonological working memory
individual differences
grammaticality judgment
translation recognition
WebCAPE
SOPI
text-based chat
mobile language learning
German language
oral proficiency
distance language learning
online language learning
language learning
distance learning
online learning
semester standing
SAT scores
grades
development
developmental outcomes
The Pennsylvania State University
German Online at PSU

File:

Download isenberg_noelle_937633171_phd_thesis_final_copy.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Richard Page Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
J Scott Payne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steve L Thorne, Committee Member
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Adrian Johannes Wanner, Committee Member

Author:

Shrefler, Nathan Laurence

Title:

Readability and German Bibles

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Luther
Bible
Lexical Density
Readability

File:

Download ShreflerDissertation2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Steve L Thorne, Committee Member
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Member

Author:

Vyatkina, Nina A.

Title:

Development of Second Language Pragmatic Competence: the Data-Driven Teaching of German Modal Particles Based on a Learner Corpus

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

interlanguage pragmatics
German
modal particles
learner corpus
contrastive learner corpus analysis
telecollaboration

File:

Download Vyatkina_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Julie A Belz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Steve L Thorne, Committee Member

Author:

Christodouleas, Tina Paraskevi

Title:

JUDEO-SPANISH AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF 21ST CENTURY THESSALONIKI: ETHNIC LANGUAGE SHIFT IN THE MAINTENANCE OF ETHNO CULTURAL IDENTITY

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

language shift
judeo-spanish
language and identity
ladino
jewish community of thessaloniki

File:

Download Christodouleas_Thesis_Complete.pdf

Committee Members:

John Lipski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Lipski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Marie Gillette Speicher, Committee Member
Dr A Jaqueline Toribio, Committee Member

Author:

Mcgregor, Janice Michelle

Title:

On Community Participation and Identity Negotiation in a Study Abroad Context: A Multiple Case Study

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

study abroad
identity
language learning
community participation
case study
ethnography

File:

Download 1-Janice_McGregor_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Carrie Neal Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Dr John Plews, Committee Member
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Robert William Schrauf, Special Member

Author:

Bauman, Joseph Robert

Title:

From possession to obligation: modal grammaticalization and variation

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Language change
language variation
grammaticalization
Spanish
linguistics
historical linguistics

File:

Download Joseph_Bauman_Dissertation_7_1_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Lipski, Committee Member
Philip Baldi, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Roccamo, Ashley Lynne

Title:

Comparing the Success of Pronunciation Instruction in Beginner and Intermediate German Language Classrooms

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

German
Linguistics
Education
L2 Pronunciation
Second Language Acquisition
Phonology
Accent

File:

Download Roccamo_Dissertation_FINAL_Apr_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Richard Page Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Dr Mary O'brien, Special Member

Author:

Balukas, Colleen Patricia

Title:

The impact of code-switching and cognate status on phonetic realizations in the New Mexican Spanish-English bilingual community

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Bilingualism
code-switching
phonetics
phonology
language contact
Spanish
English

File:

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Committee Members:

Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Lipski, Committee Member
Marianna Nadeu, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Eleonora Rossi, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Hiram L

Title:

Patterns of variable tense-aspect marking in Palenquero creole

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

creole languages
grammaticalization
Palenquero
San Basilio de Palenque
Spanish-based creoles
tense and aspect marking

File:

Download 2-Dissertation_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Lipski, Committee Member
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Karen Lynn Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Hendricks, Alison Klara Eisel

Title:

Inconsistent input and amount of exposure: child language acquisition of Fering, a dialect of North Frisian

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

child language acquisition
morphology
inconsistent input
German
North Frisian

File:

Download Hendricks_DissertationFINAL_12-9.pdf

Committee Members:

Carrie Neal Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Lynn Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member

Author:

Qvarnstrom, Marie Yvonne

Title:

The Impact of Societal Changes and Attitudes on the Maintenance and Shift of Pennsylvania German among the Old Order Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN
LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE
SHIFT
ATTITUDE
SOCIOECONOMIC
SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGES / LANCASTER COUNTY

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Committee_Copy_Sept._14_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Richard Page Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member

Author:

Henry, Nicholas Alan

Title:

Morphosyntactic Processing, Cue Interaction, and the Effects of Instruction: An Investigation of Processing Instruction and the Acquisition of Case Markings in L2 German

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

second language acquisition
sentence processing
German
applied linguistics
Processing Instruction
Input Processing

File:

Download Nick_Henry_Dissertation__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Carrie Neal Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bill Van Patten, Special Member

Author:

Gardner, Christine Elaine

Title:

The Production of Read and Conversational Speech by L1 and L2 Speakers of German

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

German
Read Speech
Conversational Speech
Word Duration
Speech Style
Second Language Acquisition
Second Mention

File:

Download Gardner_Dissertation_German_Read_and_Conversational_Speech.pdf

Committee Members:

Carrie Neal Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member

Author:

Schempp, Patricia Lynne

Title:

L2 Learners' Processing of Grammatical Gender Varies According to Cognate Status and Proficiency: An ERP Study

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

German
Grammatical Gender
ERP
L2 Learners
Cognate Status
Second Language Acquistion
SLA
L2
Cognate
Gender
Psycholinguistics
Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics
Language Learning
Bilingual
Bilingualism

File:

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Committee Members:

Carrie Neal Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
Adriana Van Hell, Outside Member

Author:

Fowler, Courtney E

Title:

Cross-Language Interaction During Language Production in L1 German-L2 Italian Bilinguals

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Linguistics
Bilingualism
German
Italian
South Tyrol
Cross-language interaction

File:

Download JohnsonFowler_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Carrie Neal Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Outside Member

Author:

Martin, Ines Aileen

Title:

Bridging The Gap Bewteen L2 Pronunciation Research and Teaching: Using iCPRs to Improve Novice German Learners' Pronunciation in Distance and Face-to-Face Classrooms

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

German
Applied Linguistics
Pronunciation
Distance Learning
Online Learning
Classroom based learning
Classroom instruction
Perception
Production

File:

Download Ines_Martin_Dissertation_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Richard Page Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
Matthew Thomas Carlson, Outside Member
Mary Grantham O'Brien, Special Member

Author:

Mc Auliffe, Kristi Ann

Title:

Exploring "Otherness" Through Holocaust Literature in the Undergraduate German Curriculum

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

Holocaust Literature
German Curriculum
Holocaust Education
Foreign Language Instruction

File:

Download McAuliffeDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Richard Page Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barry Richard Page Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
Sabine Doran, Special Member
Heather Mccoy, Committee Member

Author:

Vosburg, Donald M

Title:

Language Learning in an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game): A Case Study of L2 Learners of German

Graduate Program:

German

Keywords:

German
SLA
MMORPG
World of Warcraft
Language Learning
Applied Linguistics

File:

Download Dissertation_Vosburg.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry Richard Page Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xiaofei Lu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member