Monica Larcom is a graduate student in the Linguistic Theory and Typology (MALTT) program at the University of Kentucky. She is a graduate with honors of the University of Arizona’s Linguistics undergraduate program.
This thesis discusses and implements Arabic data from the Syrian dialect within the Minimalist Ma... more This thesis discusses and implements Arabic data from the Syrian dialect within the Minimalist Machine program first created and developed for English and Japanese by Sandiway Fong and Jason Ginsberg. This thesis centers on implementing data found in Kristen Brustad’s The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study (2000) and introduces a minimalist Arabic grammar into the Minimalist Machine program, a Prolog-based system [that uses an online server to self-contain the information recall]. The data and insights from Brustad, as well as other prevalent sources in Arabic syntax, were used to inform and compose the syntactic constraints for the Prolog-based system.
This paper is an investigation into information structure and wh-question prosody in Japanese and... more This paper is an investigation into information structure and wh-question prosody in Japanese and Turkish. The primary foci are word order and the interpretation of wh-phrases depending on intonation. This paper looks for commonalities between these two languages, with the motivations of finding commonalities that potentially allude to a shared (Altaic) ancestry of both Turkish and Japanese. Though the findings are inconclusive, there are common patterns that manifest within both Turkish and Japanese that are discussed.
This thesis discusses and implements Arabic data from the Syrian dialect within the Minimalist Ma... more This thesis discusses and implements Arabic data from the Syrian dialect within the Minimalist Machine program first created and developed for English and Japanese by Sandiway Fong and Jason Ginsberg. This thesis centers on implementing data found in Kristen Brustad’s The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study (2000) and introduces a minimalist Arabic grammar into the Minimalist Machine program, a Prolog-based system [that uses an online server to self-contain the information recall]. The data and insights from Brustad, as well as other prevalent sources in Arabic syntax, were used to inform and compose the syntactic constraints for the Prolog-based system.
This paper is an investigation into information structure and wh-question prosody in Japanese and... more This paper is an investigation into information structure and wh-question prosody in Japanese and Turkish. The primary foci are word order and the interpretation of wh-phrases depending on intonation. This paper looks for commonalities between these two languages, with the motivations of finding commonalities that potentially allude to a shared (Altaic) ancestry of both Turkish and Japanese. Though the findings are inconclusive, there are common patterns that manifest within both Turkish and Japanese that are discussed.
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