Sökning: "Kirk P. H. Sullivan"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Kirk P. H. Sullivan.
1. That voice sounds familiar : factors in speaker recognition
Sammanfattning : Humans have the ability to recognize other humans by voice alone. This is important both socially and for the robustness of speech perception. This Thesis contains a set of eight studies that investigates how different factors impact on speaker recognition and how these factors can help explain how listeners perceive and evaluate speaker identity. LÄS MER
2. Engagement, directed motivational currents, and second language learning : adult immigrant perspectives
Sammanfattning : The dissertation answers calls for the integration of motivation and engagement theory and research among highly educated adult-migrant language learners. Specifically, the purpose of this dissertation is to propose a model to describe the interactions between the motivation construct Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs) and the engagement construct Engagement with Language (EWL). LÄS MER
3. Engagement, directed motivational currents, and second language learning : adult immigrant perspectives
Sammanfattning : The dissertation answers calls for the integration of motivation and engagement theory and research among highly educated adult-migrant language learners. Specifically, the purpose of this dissertation is to propose a model to describe the interactions between the motivation constructDirected Motivational Currents (DMCs) and the engagement construct Engagement with language (EWL). LÄS MER
4. The acquisition of contrast : a longitudinal investigation of initial s+plosive cluster development in Swedish children
Sammanfattning : This Thesis explores the development of word-initial s+plosive consonant clusters in the speech of Swedish children between the ages of 1;6 and 4;6. Development in the word-initial consonant clusters is viewed as being determined by 1) the children’s ability to articulate the target sequence of consonants, 2) the level of understanding of which acoustic features in the adult model production are significant for the signalling of the intended distinction, and 3) the children’s ability to apply established production patterns only to productions where the acquired feature agrees with the adult target, to achieve a contrast between rival output forms. LÄS MER
5. Multilingual literacy among young learners of North Sámi : contexts, complexity and writing in Sápmi
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents an investigation of the complexities of the immediate, ideological, educational, and societal contexts for literacy development among North Sámi learners between the ages of 9 and 15 who live in Northern Finland, Norway and Sweden in the central regions of Sápmi. Further, this thesis focuses on one area of literacy, namely writing. LÄS MER
