The principal aims of this thesis are (i) to provide an analysis of direct perception complements within Chomsky`s(1995) minimalist framework, (ii) to provide an answer for the old puzzle of why these verbs appear to select for different infinitival complements in their active and passive forms within Chomsky`s(2000, 2001) Agree framework Section 2 and 3 deal with the mea..
This paper investigates how Korean learners of English produce coronal stop-lateral sequences in words like potluck and padlock, explores what factors can have an effect on their production, and gives a constraint-based account of L2 phonological variations The main findings are that Korean learners of English transferred coronal stop lateralization, thus turning Englis..
War is the quintessential experience of international military conflict, and twentieth-century US wars not only dispatch American soldiers through the route of US expansionism but also reinscribe the notion of heteronormative domesticity This essay addresses the complicated intersections of war, domesticity, and gender roles in two Vietnam War novels by comparing them ..
Lombardi (2002) assumes that epenthetic vowel is central vowels such as [i], and [] They are universally the least marked, followed by [i], which is an optimal epenthetic vowel in languages that do not have central vowels On the other hand, Kenstowicz (2003) and Steriade (2003) argue that similar judgments derive from a perceptual map that allows speakers to access the re..