Browsing English by Author "Menon, Mythili"
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The aspectual structure of the adjective Spanish ser and estar
Pardo, Alfredo Garcia; Menon, Mythili (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020-05-13)This paper argues that the stage-level and individual-level distinctions for adjectival predicates, diagnosed in Spanish by the copulas ser and estar, can be derived by positing a sortal distinction in the temporal arguments ... -
Evaluating the evolution of the English language based on slang terminology used on TikTok
Mackey, Abigail (Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: Social media usage is a recent, yet normalized factor in the lives of people young and old. With this newfound ability to interact and communicate with people all around the world, various linguistic developments ... -
Identifying the color of taste: The semantic mapping of sensory relationships
Hemberger, Kaitlyn (Wichita State University, 2023-04-14)INTRODUCTION: Sensory processing and representation is a prominent point of study psycholinguistics. Ullmann (1957), one of the first to study cross-sensory relationships, suggests that color cannot describe a sense as ... -
Writing self-efficacy and linguistic diversity of first-year composition students: An exploratory study
Wadman-Goetsch, Ellery Glenn (Wichita State University, 2020-12)This study investigates the potential relationship between student writing self-efficacy and marginalized linguistic identities. A total of sixty-nine first-year composition students across two semesters responded to ...