Ph.D. Degrees awarded since 1965
Department of Linguistics
UCLA
Listed in reverse chronological order. To find particular names, please use the search option on your browser.
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dissertations of UCLA Ph.D's
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(2008,
Sun-Ah Jun, chair) Intonational Phonology and Focus Prosody of Bengali |
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Leonard Chacha Mwita |
(2008, Russell Schuh, chair) Verbal
Tone in Kuria |
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(2008,
Patricia Keating and Colin Wilson, co-chairs) Word-level and Feature-level Effects in Phonetic Imitation |
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Katrina Tang |
(2008,
Russell Schuh and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs) The
Phonology and Phonetics of Consonant-Tone Interaction |
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(2008,
Daniel Büring, chair) The Syntax and Semantics of Implicit Conditionals: Filling in the
Antecedent |
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(2007, Kie
Zuraw, chair) The Evolving Lexicon |
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(2007,
Philippe Schlenker, chair) Plurality
and Possibility |
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(2007, Edward
Stabler, chair) Inductive Learning of
Phonotactic Patterns |
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(2007,
Susan Curtiss and Bruce Hayes, co-chairs) Grammar
and Analogy in Phonotactic Well-Formedness Judgments |
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(2006,
Edward Stabler, chair). Generating
Copies: An Investigation into Structural Identity in Language and Grammar |
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(2006) Acquiring English Particle Verbs: Age and
Transfer Effects in Second Language Acquistion |
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(2006) The
Morphosyntax Of Nominalizations: A Case Study |
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(2006,
Patricia Keating, chair). The Effects
of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Phonation |
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(2006,
Pamela Munro, chair). Expressing Location in |
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(2006,
Pamela Munro and Tim Stowell, co-chairs). The
Morphosyntax of Subjects in Macuiltianguis
Zapotec |
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(2006,
Hilda Koopman, chair). Conditions on Multiple Copy Spell-Out and the
Syntax Phonology Interface. |
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(2005, Sun-Ah Jun, chair) An Intonational Analysis of Disfluency
Patterns in Stuttering |
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(2005, Pamela Munro, chair) Resultatives, Derived Statives, and Lexical Semantic Structure |
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(2005,
Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) Similarity in Phonology: Evidence from Reduplication and Loan
Adaptation |
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(2005,
(Hilda Koopman, chair) On the
Distribution of Complementizers in Wolof |
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(2005,
Hilda Koopman, chair) Issues in Zulu
Verbal Morphosyntax |
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(2005, Patricia Keating and Edward Stabler, co-chairs) Learning Features
and Segments from Waveforms: A Statistical Model of Early Phonological
Acquisition |
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(2005, Edward Stabler, chair) Studies in Computational Optimality
Theory, With Special Reference to the Phonological System of Malagasy |
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(2005, Patricia Keating, chair) Coarticulation and the Structure of the Lexicon |
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(September
2004; Anoop Mahajan and Tim Stowell, co-chairs) Complex Predicates in Mandarin Chinese: Three Types of Bu-Yu
Structures |
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(2004;
Edward Stabler, chair) Generation,
Recognition, and Learning in |
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(2004;
Sun-Ah Jun, chair) The role of prosodic
phrasing in Korean word segmentation |
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(2004,
Pamela Munro, chair) Topics in Yala´lag Zapotec, with
particular reference to its phonetic structures |
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(December
2003; Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) A Constraint-Based Approach to Morphology |
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(June
2003; Daniel Büring, chair) Free Not to Ask: On the Semantics of Free Relatives and Wh-Words
Cross-linguistically |
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(June
2003; Daniel Büring, chair) Possessives in Context: Issues in the Semantics of Possessive
Constructions |
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(June
2003; Tom Hinnebusch and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) Tone and Prosodic Morphology in Kisukuma |
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(October
2002; Sun-Ah Jun, chair) Quantifier
Scope and the Role of Intonation in Greek |
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(June
2002; Bruce Hayes and Donca Steriade, co-chairs) The Identification of Bases in Morphological Paradigms |
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Melissa Epstein |
(May 2002;
Pat Keating and Jody Kreiman, co-chairs) Voice Quality and Prosody in English |
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(December
2001; Anoop Mahajan, chair) Noun
Classifiers |
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Stefano Vegnaduzzo |
(October
2001; Ed Keenan, chair) A Partition
Semantics for Temporal Adverbs |
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(September
2001; Ed Stabler, chair) Parsing
Minimalist Languages |
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(August
2001; Pat Keating and Sun-Ah Jun, co-chairs) Effects of Prosody on Articulation in English |
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Christina Foreman |
(August
2001; Sun-Ah Jun, chair) The Use of
Contrastive Focus by High-Functioning Children with Autism |
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(January 2001;
Carson Schutze and Dominique Sportiche, co-chairs) Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan |
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(June
2001; Donca Steriade, chair) The
Effects of Duration and Sonority on Contour Tone Distribution -- Typological
Survey and Formal Analysis |
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(December
2000; Ed Keenan and Timothy Stowell, co-chairs) "The Clause Structure of
Malagasy: A Minimalist Approach" |
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Victoria Anderson |
(August
2000; Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs)"Giving Weight to
Phonetic Principles: The Case of Place of Articulation in |
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(August
2000; Nina Hyams and Ed Stabler, co-chairs) "The development of the
copula in child English: The lightness of be" |
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Peter Hallman |
(August
2000; Dominique Sportiche, chair) "The Structure of Predicates:
Interactions of Derivation, Case and Quantification" |
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(July
2000; Bruce Hayes, chair) "Distributional Cues in Morpheme Discovery: A
Computational Model and Empirical Evidence" |
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(June
2000; Russ Schuh, chair) "Topics in Bole Verb Morphology" |
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(June
2000; Donca Steriade and Bruce Hayes, co-chairs) "Patterned Exceptions
in Phonology" |
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(December,
1999; Bruce Hayes, chair) "Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory" |
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Sean Fulop |
(July
1999; Ed Stabler, chair) "On the Logic and Learning of Language" |
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(1999;
Bruce Hayes, chair) "Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology and
Typology" |
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Kimberly Thomas-Vilakati |
(June
1999; Tom Hinnebusch and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) "Coproduction
and Coarticulation in Isizulu
Clicks" |
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Felicia Lee |
(June 1999;
Tim Stowell and Pam Munro, co-chairs) "Antisymmetry
and the Syntax in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec" |
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(1999;
Donca Steriade and Pam Munro, co-chairs) "The Phonology and Morphology
of Nez Perce Stress" |
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(1999;
Susie Curtiss, chair) "Innovation by a Child Acquiring Signing Exact
English II" |
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Mari Sakaguchi |
(1998; Tim
Stowell, chair) "Distributivity in English and
Japanese" |
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Susan Hess |
(1998; Pat
Keating and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) "Pharyngeal Articulations" |
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(1998; Donca
Steriade, chair) "An Effort-Based Approach to Consonant Lenition" |
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(1998; Tim
Stowell, chair) "The Syntax of Purposive Expressions" |
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(1997; Pat
Keating, chair) "The Time Course of Breathiness and Laryngealization
in Vowels" |
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Brian C. Potter |
(Sept.
1997; Dominique Sportiche and Pam Munro, co-chairs) "Wh/Indefinites and
the Structure of the Clause in Western Apache" |
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(1997; Ed
Keenan, chair) "Quantification, Context Dependence, and Generalized
Minimalist Grammer: Studies on the Interpretation
of Clitic Proforms and Existential Determiners in
Spanish" |
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Margaret R. MacEachern |
(July
1997; Donca Steriade, chair) "Laryngeal Cooccurrence Restrictions" |
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Jeannette C. Schaeffer |
(Jan.
1997; Nina Hyams, chair) "Direct Object Scrambling in Dutch and Italian
Child Language" |
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(Aug.
1996; Patricia Keating, chair) "Consonant Clusters and Cue Preservation
in Tsou" |
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(Aug.
1996; Hilda Koopman, chair) "The Morphosyntax
of Applicatives" |
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Roderic F. Casali |
(May 1996;
Donca Steriade, chair) "Resolving Hiatus" |
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(May 1996;
Tim Stowell, chair) "Verb Incorporation and Elementary Predicates" |
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(March
1996; Paul Schachter, chair) "The Syntactic
and Semantic Structures of Complex Predicate Constructions in Japanese" |
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(Jan.
1996; Ed Keenan, chair) "On the Nonexistence of Anaphors and Pronominals in Tongan" |
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Nhlanhla L. Thwala |
(Dec.
1995; Dominique Sportiche and Tim Stowell, co-chairs) "A Generative
Grammar of Si-Swati: Morphology and Syntax of Nouns
and Verbs" |
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Dorit
Ben-Shalom |
(Dec.
1995; Ed Keenan and Ed Stabler, co-chairs) "Semantic Trees" |
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Michael A. Nkemnji |
(Dec.
1995; Hilda Koopman and Russ Schuh, co-chairs) "Heavy Pied-Piping in Nweh" |
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Stephen M. Adewole |
(Sept.
1995; Russ Schuh, chair) "Yoruba Word Formation Processes" |
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Tetsuya Sano |
(Sept.
1995; Nina Hyams, chair) "Roots in Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study
of Japanese and European Languages" |
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Lawan Danladi Yalwa |
(Aug.
1995; Russ Schuh, chair) "Issues in the Syntax of Hausa
Complementation" |
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Filippo Beghelli |
(Aug.
1995; Anna Szabolcsi, chair) "The Phrase
Structure of Quantifier Scope" |
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(July
1995; Patricia Keating, chair) "Trills, Taps, and Stops in Contrast and
Variation" |
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(June
1995; Donca Steriade, chair) "Auditory Representations in
Phonology" |
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(July 1995;
Peter Ladefoged, chair) "Acoustic Realizations of American /r/ as
Produced by Women and Men" |
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(July
1995; Ian Maddieson and Tom Hinnebusch, co-chairs) "Evaluating Claims of
Distant Linguistic Relationships: The Case of Khoisan" |
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(July
1995; Donca Steriade, chair) "Phasing and Recoverabilitiy"
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(July
1995; Russ Schuh and Ian Maddieson, co-chairs) "Investigating Laryngeal
Contrasts: An Acoustic Study of the Consonants of Musey"
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(May 1995;
Bruce Hayes, chair) "The Typology of Rounding Harmony: An Optimality
Theoretic Approach" |
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(March
1995; Ed Keenan, chair) "The Semantics of Locative Prepositional Phrases
in English" |
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(Feb.
1995; Donca Steriade, chair) "Perceptual and Articulatory Factors on
Place Assimilation" |
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Kaoru Ohta |
(Dec.
1994; Tim Stowell, chair) "Verbal Nouns in Japanese" |
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(Sept.
1994; Ed Stabler, chair) "Context-Freeness and the Lexicon" |
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Hiroyuki Nagahara |
(Aug.
1994; Bruce Hayes, chair) "Phonological Phrasing in Japanese" |
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(April
1994; Patricia Keating, chair) "Articulatory Timing in English Consonant
Sequences" |
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Andi Wu |
(March
1994; Ed Stabler, chair) "The Spell- Out Parameters: A Minimalist
Approach to Syntax" |
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Stephan M. Schuetze-Coburn |
(Jan.
1994; J. Du Bois and Pamela Munro, co-chairs) "Prosody, Syntax, and
Discourse Pragmatics: Assessing Information Flow in German Conversation"
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(Aug.
1993; Ed Keenan, chair) "Categories, Structures, and Principles of
Anaphoric Dependencies" |
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Bonnie H. Chiu |
(Jan.
1993; Hilda Koopman, chair) "The Inflectional Structure of Mandarin
Chinese" |
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Karen K. Wallace |
"Verb
Incorporation and Agreement in Crow," 12/92 (P. Munro, chair) |
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Phonetic Underspecification
and Target- Interpolation: An Acoustic Study of Marshallese Vowel Allophony, 11/92 (P. Keating, B. Hayes, chairs) |
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Laura D. Crain |
Clause
Chaining in Nepali Discourse, 5/92 (P. Schachter,
S. Thompson, chairs) |
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Description
Theory, Licensing Theory, and Principle-Based Grammars and Parsers, 5/92 (V.
Fromkin, E. Stabler, chairs) |
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The
Internal Syntax of DP, 12/91 (D. Sportiche) |
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Tone and
Accent in KiYaka, 10/91 (B. Hayes, chair) |
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Both
Lexicons, 9/91 (V. Fromkin, D. Steriade, chairs) |
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Peter N. Landerman |
Quechua
Dialects and their Classification, 8/91 (G. Bedell,
chair) |
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The
Morphology and Syntax of Determiner Phrases in Kiswahili, 7/91 (T. Stowell,
chair) |
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Sarah N. Dart |
Articulatory
and Acoustic Properties of Apical and Laminal Articulations, 3/91 (P.
Ladefoged, chair) |
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The
Determination of Grammatical Relations in Syntax, 2/91 (T. Stowell, chair) |
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Linda L. Arvanites |
The Glottalic Phonemes of Proto-Eastern Cushitic, 1/91 (R.
Anttila, chair) |
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Syntactic
Dependencies and the SPEC- head Agreement Hypothesis in KiLega,
1/91 (H. Koopman, D. Sportiche, chairs) |
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Tense,
Aspect, and Modality: A Discourse-Pragmatic Analysis of Verb Affixes in
Korean from a Typological Perspective, 12/90 (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs) |
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Catherine A. Jackson |
The
Grammatical Consequences of Early Focal Damage to the Left Hemisphere of the
Brain, 12/90 (S. Curtiss, V. Fromkin, chairs) |
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Extending
the Binding Theory: A Muskogean Case Study, 6/90 (P. Munro, T. Stowell,
chairs) |
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James J. Tyhurst |
Logical Forms
for English Sentences, 6/90 (E. Keenan, chair) |
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Scope
Dependency in English and Chinese, 6/90 (E. Keenan, chair) |
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