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- Creator:
- Ishii, Toru, Golston, Chris, and Agbayani, Brian
- Description:
- This paper presents a prosodic movement analysis of "multiple scrambling" in Japanese. The organization of this paper is as follows. Section 2 argues that there are two kinds of scrambling, i.e. syntactic scrambling and prosodic scrambling. It is shown that the latter type of scrambling, which targets a prosodic constituent rather than a syntactic constituent, accommodates "multiple scrambling." Section 3 presents consequences of our analysis. Section 4 discusses the lack of locality effects with prosodic scrambling. Section 5 makes concluding remarks.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Chen, Jidong and Ai, Ruixi
- Description:
- This paper investigates the crosslinguistic influences on the learning of encoding motion and state change in L2 Mandarin based on the linguistic typology motionmand state change (Talmy 1985, 2000; Slobin 2004). We conducted an experiment of elicited descriptions of events of motion and state change with 10 adult native American-English learners of Mandarin. The results show that L2 adult Mandarin learners, similar to their L1 child counterparts (Chen, 2006, 2008), are sensitive to the Mandarin-way of encoding motion and state change. Overgeneralization errors reflect an overuse of the dominant way of lexicalizing motion and state change in the target language. The early learning of the target language pattern may be explained by Clark’s (1993, 2004) principles of learning constructional regularities and the inter-typological similarities between Mandarin and English.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Agbayani, Brian, Golston, Chris, and Henderer, Dasha
- Description:
- A basic assumption in generative grammar is that all movement is syntactic. This paper proposes that hyperbaton in Classical Greek, Latin and Colloquial Russian involves post-syntactic movement of prosodic constituents to prosodic edges (for a full treatment of Classical Greek, see Agbayani and Golston 2010). We are led to this conclusion by two major observations about hyperbaton: it moves prosodic constituents (ω and φ) while ignoring syntactic constituency, and it respects prosodic constraints such as the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) while ignoring syntactic constraints like the Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC) or the Left Branch Condition (LBC). We propose that this is just what we should find with prosodic movement: sensitivity to prosodic constituency and prosodic constraints and insensitivity to syntactic constituents and syntactic constraints.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Chen, Jidong
- Description:
- This study examines the emergent linguistic properties of the early production of verb argument structure in Mandarin Chinese. Longitudinal naturalist speech data of one Mandarin-learning child were coded and analyzed for their argument structure from age 1;3 to 3;4, the crucial age for early syntactic development. The results reveal early emergence and dominance of transitive verbs and the themeonly argument. Transitive verbs tend to have reduced number of arguments, whereas intransitive verbs tend to sustain one argument. The acquisition of thematic roles proceeds in the order of theme, agent, location, and recipient. The child’s production of verb argument structure reflects the typological features of Mandarin. It also suggests some language-general route in the acquisition of argument structure.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Luo, Yupeng and Wu, Wei
- Description:
- Emerging trends of green building and building information modelling (BIM) are driving profound transformation within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry nowadays. This paradigm shift has also set up new expectations on college students for their competencies in sustainability and BIM. While most higher education institutions have already incorporated such topics in their curricula, green building and BIM are typically taught separately. In this study, instructors from two classes adopted an integrated approach and designed a joint course project focusing on both sustainable design and BIM implementation. With BIM facilitation, students collaborated in teams working on artefacts and other tasks to accomplish predefined sustainable goals for a real building project. The project based learning provides an ideal framework to evaluate critical factors that influence the execution of BIM in green building project delivery. Formative and summative assessments of student learning outcomes in model communication, teamwork, critical thinking, problem-solving, and sustainability were conducted. The results of this study provide insight into innovative pedagogic design for sustainability and BIM education in the AEC curricula. The study also confirmed the effectiveness of project based learning in cultivating student competencies in critical thinking and problem-solving within a multidisciplinary project environment. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Identifier:
- dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.519
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Urynowicz, Michael A., Dangi, Mohan B., and Gerow, Kenneth G.
- Description:
- Characterizing municipal solid waste (MSW) at the source of generation is a difficult task in large urban areas of developing countries. In order to understand this problem and devise comprehensive strategies for characterizing waste streams in Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC), Nepal, this paper utilizes two- and three-stage cluster sampling of strata. A pilot study of 200 households formed the basis for a field study that was conducted using 336 households. The pilot study provided 161.2 g capita-1 day-1 of average household solid waste generation in KMC, composition of organic wastes was at 63%, recyclables were in decline, construction debris was on the rise, and hazardous wastes was at 0.4%. The field study found that household solid waste generation was at 497.3 g capita-1 day-1 and MSW at 0.66 kg capita-1 day-1. Organic wastes was the greatest component, while recyclables were on the rise along with hazardous wastes. The positive relationship between income and waste generation were held by all of the six strata in the pilot study and the first three strata in the field study; however the last stratum was an exception in the field study. The stratified generation of waste stream could be a better measure for future reformation of waste management practices in the KMC.
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno