This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Communication Studies. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.

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Theses/Dissertations from 1978

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Myth ritual community: Issues of interpersonal communication within the family, Marilyn Chodosh Small

Theses/Dissertations from 1977

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The formally structured organization and societal change: Adaptation through communication, William Charles Barlet

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Generalized conflict styles as predictors of specific conflict responses in varying content and relationship scenario conditions, M. Joanne Hall

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Counterplan in academic debate| Contemporary theory and judging practices, Theda Babcock McLaren

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Stages in the development of community in churches: A participant observation approach, John James Metzke

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Auditory and visual memory skills in normal children, Joanne Mae Moulton

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Participant observation methodology for the organizational consultant, Alexis Sokolik Nichols

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Content and relationship dimensions of a conflict encounter scenario as determinants of interpersonal conflict rules, Tara L. Shepherd

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Cognitive-complexity and media design, Kenneth Elvin Sleator

Theses/Dissertations from 1976

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Study to determine elements of restricted code development through time in small group discussions, Lucile Backus Alt

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Effects of confirming and disconfirming responses on reciprocal dyadic relationships, Wayne Alan Beach

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The effect of interpersonal compatibility between teacher and student on student grades, Louis Emil Bohn

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Quantification of source credibility variables for oral interpretation of literature, Wayne Lowell Houston

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Experimental study of the effects of speech delivery rate and speaker sex upon listening achievement of university students, Wilmer Durell Kinghorn

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Philosophies of assertiveness, Earl Peter Malarchick

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Individual choice as a function of information processing, David Charles Wheeler

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Initiation of the Flathead Rural Schools Communication Disorders Program, Holly L. Wurl

Theses/Dissertations from 1975

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Report on the combined roles: Speech and language clinicians special services consultants School District #1 Missoula Montana, Patricia Ann Carr

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A child learns to speak: A guide for parents to normal speech and language development, Susan M. Leitch

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Comprehension of active and passive messages at normal and compressed rates, Michael Gerald McBride

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Descriptive analysis of managerial structures and information processing, Eric Joseph Oyster

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An Interpersonal communication skills approach to the treatment of alcoholism, Edward J. Shea

Theses/Dissertations from 1974

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Comparison of methods used to detect ear pathology in children, Marsha Lowe

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An Investigation of videotape rescoring of certain subtests of the Porch Index of Communicative Ability, Caroline Lee Massarotto

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Normative data on the spontaneous speaking rate of third grade children, Kathleen Colwell McCain

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Pluralizing behavior of preschool children, Sandra Claire Meech

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Listeners' electromyographic responses to fluent repetitious and prolonged speech, Thomas Michael Morris

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Comparison of the test performance of normal and hearing impaired children on the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities, Elizabeth Jane Solberg

Theses/Dissertations from 1973

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Questionnaire identification of ear pathology in children, Ann Elizabeth Bowden

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Comparison of selected language skills between children with normal articulation and children with persistent misarticulations, Ellen Michele Flores

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Effects of suggestion of difficulty on the fluency and rate of speech of children during oral reading, Michael A. Kiely

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Comparison of word-unit and nonsense-unit speech sound discrimination scores of preschool children, Mary Pat LaForest

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Evaluative study of the Montana Department of Labor and Industry hearing testing program, Marion Ilse Lund

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Obtaining carryover: The effectiveness of certain linguistic units in speech-sound therapy, Mary Anne Molineux

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Recognition and production of /s/ and /n/ words, Janice Driscoll Nugent

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Disfluencies as a function of hearing one's own voice on a tape recorder, Susan Nelson Pier

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A study of the relationship between syllable rate and fluency, Catherine Beall Thorne

Theses/Dissertations from 1972

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Study of normal children's discrimination responses in noise to the PBK word lists, Gary Dean Anderson

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A descriptive study of the motor theory of speech perception, Wendy Maureen Coburn

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Vertigo and dizziness: a study of relationships to audiological testing and patient history data, Nancy Lee Crosby

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Comparison of judgments on written compositions of hearing and hearing-impaired high school students, Laurie Newton Cummins

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Survey of speech and hearing management and referral practices by Wyoming physicians and dentists, Beverly June Currey

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Study of the effects of fluent and disfluent speech on the speech of listeners, John Michael Hanley

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Comparison of the Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock and Modified Rhyme Tests of auditory discrimination, James Edward Mangan

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Determining the predictability of the transactional analysis personality model (parent-adult-child) in persuasive communication: An experimental study, Mark Blaine Milkovich

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Proposed program for the early identification of hearing-impaired infants, Lee Elizabeth Shideler

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Listeners' perception of speaker's personality traits as a function of speaker's eye contact behavior, Roger Lawrence Towne

Theses/Dissertations from 1971

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Effects of altered auditory and tactile feedback on vowels and on consonents, Caroline Roberts Conklin

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The reliability and validity of descriptions of misarticulated sounds according to several articulatory features, Elaine M. Heaton

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Survey of speech communication and homiletics studies of Bible colleges of the Christian Church and Churches of Christ, Joe W. Kaiser

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Experimental study of the relationship between perceived nasality and judgments of personality, Linda Diane Kobitisch

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Relationship between minimal hearing loss and academic achievement, Linda R. Kundert

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Descriptive study of informal group formations and correlates in the Montana State Senate, Allan Dean Louden

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An analysis of developmental articulation errors on the basis of articulatory attributes: a procedural study, Mary Anne Reed

Theses/Dissertations from 1970

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Study of a possible relationship between pure tone hearing acuity and verbal and performance WISC score differences found in children in educable mentally retarded classrooms in Montana, Bonnie Kositzky Brown

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Experimental study of the relationship of persuasibility to male-female involvement with message topics, Kent Harding Bulloch

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A Comparative study of communication efficiency in two units of local city government, Joseph Francis Connors

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Experimental investigation of the influence of message argument order on receivers' attitude change and ratings of source credibility, Leonard Myron French

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Oral and written channels in the serial reproduction of information, Timothy Gus Hegstrom

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Experimental investigation of personality factors associated with persuasibility during a fear state, Leon Allen Karjola

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Analysis of the correlations among excellence in public speaking excellence in group discussion and specified concepts of leadership, Arnold John Malone

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Fluency behavior during hypnotic age regression, Sharon Lucille Whitehouse

Theses/Dissertations from 1969

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Survey of language instruction method used with partially hearing children in the United States Canada and Great Britain, Percy Lee Baxter

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Descriptive analysis of the use of evidence in the National Debate Tournament| 1961-1966, James Bryce De Moux

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Left-right differences in the auditory perception of verbal material by children ages eight and fourteen, Loreen Craig Folsom

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Production and extinction of speech disfluency as a function of electric shock under differing reinforcement schedules, Jon M. Hasbrouck

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Effects of training and experience on attitudes toward speech defects, William Francis Hickey

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Study of the incidence of hearing impairment in three Job Corps centers, Mary Lynn Kansala

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Independence of between-electrode resistance variations on the "V" potential in evoked response audiometry, Darrell James Micken

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Analysis of utterance units in comparing intended oral and written persuasive and informative style, Terrence R. Radcliffe

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Factor of relevance in the serial reproduction of orally transmitted information, Curtis Alfred Stadstad

Theses/Dissertations from 1968

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Survey of the responsibilities of speech teachers in the secondary schools of South Dakota, Carolyn Rose Bezenek

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Language system characteristics of economically poor and non-poor northwestern Montana kindergarten children, Jerry Leonard Burk

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An investigation of the effects of oral tactual and kinesthetic sense deprivation on the ability of male children to discriminate auditorily perceived stimuli, Paul Campanello

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Descriptive study of the language characteristics of senile patients as measured by a test of aphasia, Linda Lee Clark

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Selected review of some applications of information theory to interpersonal communication research, Douglas B. Eamon

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Effects of initial part-word repetitions on the transfer of semantic information as measured by listener's responses, Roy R. Folsom

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A comparative study of certain linguistic aspects of high school stutterers and their nonstuttering peers, Susan K. Jensen

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Analysis of the development of the Montana State High School Speech Tournament, 1904 to 1964, Thomas F. O'Brien

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Investigation of audience response to dramatic poetic literature when perceived through silent reading and oral group reading, Anabel Osborn

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A methodological comparison of tone decay in audiometrically normal ears, Margaret Jean Town

Theses/Dissertations from 1967

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Crawling and creeping patterns in relation to speech and reading, Sharon Loretta Carney

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The management and referral by physicians in Montana of communicatively-impaired adults to speech and hearing services, Susan Gifford Duffey

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Preliminary investigation of the effects of punishment and no-punishment on the verbal disfluencies of stutterers, Marilyn M. Pearson

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History and philosophy of the quorum as a device of parliamentary procedure, William Paul White

Theses/Dissertations from 1966

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Survey of the influence of experimentalism in the field of general speech, Howard Joseph Ayres

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Investigation of psycholinguistic and articulatory skills of a selected group of elementary school children, Valerie Smith Cole

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Teachers' ability to predict the friendship status of speech-handicapped children, Charlotte Fraser Ewing

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A study of the development and effect of a tape-recorded programmed instruction course in listening, Russell Wayne Jennings

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Investigation of the effects of four interstimulus intervals upon electrodermal responses, Charles H. Lewis

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Study of certain speech characteristics in the Job Corps population, Sherri Mace Nemec

Theses/Dissertations from 1965

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Suggested approach to the study of the communication of conceptually structured understandings, Roger Lee Garrett

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Effectiveness of auditory visual and auditory-visual communication in transmitting information: An exploratory study, John Huey Mills

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Investigation of audience response to prose literature when perceived through silent reading oral interpretation and readers theatre, Judy Lee Svore

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Use of logical proof in the speeches of Lyndon Baines Johnson as shown by an analysis of eight selected speeches delivered between the dates of December 17, 1963 and January 4, 1965, Donald Raymond Swanson

Theses/Dissertations from 1963

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Effect of time restriction on the transmission of information, John R. Baseheart

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Communication set in encoding information: An experimental investigation, Richard Harger

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Analysis and evaluation of criticism of debating in American high schools and colleges in selected speech publications since 1930, Scotte J. Hecht

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Information transmission: A function of organization, Duane Dennis Pettersen

Theses/Dissertations from 1962

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Investigation of the effect of verbal criticism upon speech fluency of normally fluent male subjects during an oral reading situation, Mary Margaret Diederichs