http://hdl.handle.net/10125/2092 Wed, 22 May 2013 07:41:01 GMT 2013-05-22T07:41:01Z http://hdl.handle.net/10125/21328 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1982. Bibliography: leaves 233-247. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/21328 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Bradshaw, Melvin Joel http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20681 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; Dupaningan Agta is an Austronesian language of the Philippine subgroup which is spoken in northeastern Luzon, Philippines by approximately 1,400 semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers belonging to the Negrito ethnic minority. The language is endangered, as it is beginning to lose child speakers. This dissertation introduces the language situation and discusses phonology (synchronic and historical) and morphosyntax (word order, word classes, the verb complex, aspect, case marking, nominalization, question formation, relative clauses and other essential aspects of Dupaningan grammar). Dupaningan Agta has a relatively simple phonological system, with fifteen consonants and five vowels. Of note, *a has been fronted to /i/ or /e/ after the voiced stops /b d g/. Morphosyntactically, the language has a typical Philippine-type "symmetrical voice" or "focus" system. The voice system of Dupaningan Agta is explored, with special reference to an interesting "double-object" construction with two syntactic subjects. Finally, this dissertation includes a substantial vocabulary and selection of texts. The audio versions of these texts are available as .wav files associated with this dissertation.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 360-363).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; 378 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20681 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Robinson, Laura C http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20680 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; Finally, for my interview study, I interviewed my speakers in an effort to find out why a person might choose to sound differently from (or similarly to) what is expected of her/his sexuality. Among the results, gay-sounding males who self-identify as straight were clueless about their sounding gay. The female speakers in general saw themselves in term of sounding feminine or masculine, rather than straight or lesbian.; For my production study, I hypothesized that gay-sounding speech may be hyperarticulated, and that lesbian-sounding speech might be hypoarticulated. Accordingly, I observed phonetic features associated with the hypoarticulation/hyperarticulation dimension, including diphthong distance and frequency of stop release. I further considered individual monophthongs' articulation. Through statistical tools, I determined the behavior of these features for each speaker sounding group. Results included the following: the hypotheses connected to hyperarticulation and hypoarticulation were not substantiated. Gay-sounding speech was characterized by fronting of high vowels and lowering of low vowels. Lesbian-sounding speech showed a backed /a/ and a short diphthong distance for /ou/.; My dissertation follows this approach, and comprises three interconnected studies: a perception study, a production study and an interview study. For my perception study, I built two scales (one per gender), of the speech of 24 speakers, equally divided into gay/lesbian and straight, on the basis of 20 listeners' judgments. The listeners rated all speakers' voices on a scale from 1 ('sounds definitely homosexual') to 7 ('sounds definitely heterosexual'). The results show that speakers of either sexuality were believed to be gay/lesbian.; The second approach focuses precisely on this possibility. Proponents of this approach, mainly Smyth et al. (2003), created a scale of sexuality identifications (for men) based on listener judgments, noting that gay-/lesbian-sounding does not necessarily identify with gay/lesbian.; The sociophonetic study of language, gender, and sexuality seems to have so far followed two main approaches. The first approach theorizes a series of phonetic features uniquely characterizing the speech of gays and lesbians, and has determined (e.g., Pierrehumbert et al. 2004) some of these features. This line of research tends to neglect individuals who do not sound like what their sexualities 'demand'.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 314-325).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; 325 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20680 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Piccolo, Fabiana http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20679 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; Finally, regarding the debate over the Creole Hypothesis, although HC does not share common substrate languages with Caribbean English-lexified creoles, the same hierarchical ordering (_gonna > _V+ ing > _Loc > _Adj > NP) is robustly found in HC. The HC data suggests that the explanation for this hierarchy argued for by some proponents of the Creole Hypothesis, that the presence of a creole copula in a certain environment leads to a low rate of copula absence in the decreolizing variety, does not work for HC data.; Second, three lect groups (basilectal, mesolectal, and acrolectal) are examined to see if their speech is comprised of a single system or of multiple co-existing systems. In general, there were no significantly different patterns observed for the three lect groups although the three groups have very different frequencies of copula absence. Therefore there appears to be no different lects in the HC creole continuum.; This research investigates copula variability in Hawaii Creole (HC) employing both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Based on sociolinguistic interviews with eighty HC speakers, descriptive and theoretical issues concerning the HC continuum are investigated. Speakers are stratified by their age, gender, and residential area. As for linguistic constraints, overall, HC shows very similar patterns to those found in African American Vernacular English and in other creoles. Social and linguistic conditioning in copula variability suggests that it is in urban O'ahu that age and gender are playing the most significant role. Overall, quantitative analyses of social factors indicate a gap between urban O'ahu and other residential areas.; Three issues concerning the creole continuum are addressed. First, in light of the possible change in current HC and its directionality, analysis of the overall pattern in HC speech does not suggest evidence of a significant change in progress. However, in some cases there are patterns that are partially suggestive of both change towards standard English and change not in the direction of standard English. The findings for HC are in line with other studies which suggest that it is not likely that a single, simple dimension entirely explains variable linguistic behavior.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-161).; Reproduction.; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; 161 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20679 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Inoue, Aya http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11724 Typescript.; Bibliography: leaves 303-312.; xiii, 312 leaves ill Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11724 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Clark, Marybeth http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11723 Typescript.; Bibliography: leaves 159-165.; vi, 165 l tables Sat, 01 Jan 1972 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11723 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Day, Richard R http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11722 Photocopy of typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1976.; Bibliography: leaves [408]-413.; Microfiche.; xiv, 413 leaves ill Thu, 01 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11722 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z De Guzman, Videa P http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11721 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1976.; Bibliography: leaves [372]-378.; Microfiche.; xiii, 378 leaves Thu, 01 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11721 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Kimura, Tadashi http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11720 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1975.; Bibliography: leaves 310-314.; xv, 314 leaves Wed, 01 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11720 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Ikranagara, Kay http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11719 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1974.; Bibliography: leaves [335]-339.; xiii, 339 leaves ill Tue, 01 Jan 1974 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11719 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee, Kee-dong http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11718 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1974.; Bibliography: leaves 340-343.; Microfilm.; xv, 343 leaves ill Tue, 01 Jan 1974 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11718 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Pranee Kullavanijaya http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11717 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1973.; Bibliography: leaves [209]-215.; x, 215 l Mon, 01 Jan 1973 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11717 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Ramos, Teresita V http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11716 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1972.; Bibliography: leaves 327-332.; xxi, 332 l map Sat, 01 Jan 1972 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11716 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Wolfenden, Elmer Paul http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11715 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1972.; Bibliography: leaves 285-294.; Available on microfilm; v, 294 leaves 29 cm Sat, 01 Jan 1972 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11715 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Yang, In-Seok http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11714 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1971.; Bibliography: leaves 254-263.; xi, 263 l illus Fri, 01 Jan 1971 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11714 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Mirikitani, Leatrice T http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11713 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1971.; Bibliography: leaves 218-225.; viii, 225 l illus Fri, 01 Jan 1971 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11713 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, Choon-Kyu http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11712 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1971.; Bibliography: [230]-232.; iv, 232 l illus. (part fold.), tables Fri, 01 Jan 1971 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11712 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Manley, Timothy M http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11711 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1970.; Bibliography: leaves 231-238.; xi, 238 l illus., tables Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11711 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Glissmeyer, Gloria http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11710 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1970.; Bibliography: leaves 357-363.; xii, 363 l diagrs., tables Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11710 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Sommer, Bruce Arthur http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11709 Typescript.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii, 1969.; Bibliography: leaves [199]-207.; viii, 207 l Wed, 01 Jan 1969 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11709 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Jenner, Philip Norman