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.
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Myth ritual community: Issues of interpersonal communication within the family, Marilyn Chodosh Small
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The formally structured organization and societal change: Adaptation through communication, William Charles Barlet
Generalized conflict styles as predictors of specific conflict responses in varying content and relationship scenario conditions, M. Joanne Hall
Counterplan in academic debate| Contemporary theory and judging practices, Theda Babcock McLaren
Stages in the development of community in churches: A participant observation approach, John James Metzke
Auditory and visual memory skills in normal children, Joanne Mae Moulton
Participant observation methodology for the organizational consultant, Alexis Sokolik Nichols
Content and relationship dimensions of a conflict encounter scenario as determinants of interpersonal conflict rules, Tara L. Shepherd
Cognitive-complexity and media design, Kenneth Elvin Sleator
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Study to determine elements of restricted code development through time in small group discussions, Lucile Backus Alt
Effects of confirming and disconfirming responses on reciprocal dyadic relationships, Wayne Alan Beach
The effect of interpersonal compatibility between teacher and student on student grades, Louis Emil Bohn
Quantification of source credibility variables for oral interpretation of literature, Wayne Lowell Houston
Experimental study of the effects of speech delivery rate and speaker sex upon listening achievement of university students, Wilmer Durell Kinghorn
Philosophies of assertiveness, Earl Peter Malarchick
Individual choice as a function of information processing, David Charles Wheeler
Initiation of the Flathead Rural Schools Communication Disorders Program, Holly L. Wurl
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Report on the combined roles: Speech and language clinicians special services consultants School District #1 Missoula Montana, Patricia Ann Carr
A child learns to speak: A guide for parents to normal speech and language development, Susan M. Leitch
Comprehension of active and passive messages at normal and compressed rates, Michael Gerald McBride
Descriptive analysis of managerial structures and information processing, Eric Joseph Oyster
An Interpersonal communication skills approach to the treatment of alcoholism, Edward J. Shea
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Comparison of methods used to detect ear pathology in children, Marsha Lowe
An Investigation of videotape rescoring of certain subtests of the Porch Index of Communicative Ability, Caroline Lee Massarotto
Normative data on the spontaneous speaking rate of third grade children, Kathleen Colwell McCain
Pluralizing behavior of preschool children, Sandra Claire Meech
Listeners' electromyographic responses to fluent repetitious and prolonged speech, Thomas Michael Morris
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
Questionnaire identification of ear pathology in children, Ann Elizabeth Bowden
Comparison of selected language skills between children with normal articulation and children with persistent misarticulations, Ellen Michele Flores
Effects of suggestion of difficulty on the fluency and rate of speech of children during oral reading, Michael A. Kiely
Comparison of word-unit and nonsense-unit speech sound discrimination scores of preschool children, Mary Pat LaForest
Evaluative study of the Montana Department of Labor and Industry hearing testing program, Marion Ilse Lund
Obtaining carryover: The effectiveness of certain linguistic units in speech-sound therapy, Mary Anne Molineux
Recognition and production of /s/ and /n/ words, Janice Driscoll Nugent
Disfluencies as a function of hearing one's own voice on a tape recorder, Susan Nelson Pier
A study of the relationship between syllable rate and fluency, Catherine Beall Thorne
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Study of normal children's discrimination responses in noise to the PBK word lists, Gary Dean Anderson
A descriptive study of the motor theory of speech perception, Wendy Maureen Coburn
Vertigo and dizziness: a study of relationships to audiological testing and patient history data, Nancy Lee Crosby
Comparison of judgments on written compositions of hearing and hearing-impaired high school students, Laurie Newton Cummins
Survey of speech and hearing management and referral practices by Wyoming physicians and dentists, Beverly June Currey
Study of the effects of fluent and disfluent speech on the speech of listeners, John Michael Hanley
Comparison of the Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock and Modified Rhyme Tests of auditory discrimination, James Edward Mangan
Determining the predictability of the transactional analysis personality model (parent-adult-child) in persuasive communication: An experimental study, Mark Blaine Milkovich
Proposed program for the early identification of hearing-impaired infants, Lee Elizabeth Shideler
Listeners' perception of speaker's personality traits as a function of speaker's eye contact behavior, Roger Lawrence Towne
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Effects of altered auditory and tactile feedback on vowels and on consonents, Caroline Roberts Conklin
The reliability and validity of descriptions of misarticulated sounds according to several articulatory features, Elaine M. Heaton
Survey of speech communication and homiletics studies of Bible colleges of the Christian Church and Churches of Christ, Joe W. Kaiser
Experimental study of the relationship between perceived nasality and judgments of personality, Linda Diane Kobitisch
Relationship between minimal hearing loss and academic achievement, Linda R. Kundert
Descriptive study of informal group formations and correlates in the Montana State Senate, Allan Dean Louden
An analysis of developmental articulation errors on the basis of articulatory attributes: a procedural study, Mary Anne Reed
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
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
Experimental study of the relationship of persuasibility to male-female involvement with message topics, Kent Harding Bulloch
A Comparative study of communication efficiency in two units of local city government, Joseph Francis Connors
Experimental investigation of the influence of message argument order on receivers' attitude change and ratings of source credibility, Leonard Myron French
Oral and written channels in the serial reproduction of information, Timothy Gus Hegstrom
Experimental investigation of personality factors associated with persuasibility during a fear state, Leon Allen Karjola
Analysis of the correlations among excellence in public speaking excellence in group discussion and specified concepts of leadership, Arnold John Malone
Fluency behavior during hypnotic age regression, Sharon Lucille Whitehouse
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Survey of language instruction method used with partially hearing children in the United States Canada and Great Britain, Percy Lee Baxter
Descriptive analysis of the use of evidence in the National Debate Tournament| 1961-1966, James Bryce De Moux
Left-right differences in the auditory perception of verbal material by children ages eight and fourteen, Loreen Craig Folsom
Production and extinction of speech disfluency as a function of electric shock under differing reinforcement schedules, Jon M. Hasbrouck
Effects of training and experience on attitudes toward speech defects, William Francis Hickey
Study of the incidence of hearing impairment in three Job Corps centers, Mary Lynn Kansala
Independence of between-electrode resistance variations on the "V" potential in evoked response audiometry, Darrell James Micken
Analysis of utterance units in comparing intended oral and written persuasive and informative style, Terrence R. Radcliffe
Factor of relevance in the serial reproduction of orally transmitted information, Curtis Alfred Stadstad
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Survey of the responsibilities of speech teachers in the secondary schools of South Dakota, Carolyn Rose Bezenek
Language system characteristics of economically poor and non-poor northwestern Montana kindergarten children, Jerry Leonard Burk
Descriptive study of the language characteristics of senile patients as measured by a test of aphasia, Linda Lee Clark
Selected review of some applications of information theory to interpersonal communication research, Douglas B. Eamon
Effects of initial part-word repetitions on the transfer of semantic information as measured by listener's responses, Roy R. Folsom
A comparative study of certain linguistic aspects of high school stutterers and their nonstuttering peers, Susan K. Jensen
Analysis of the development of the Montana State High School Speech Tournament, 1904 to 1964, Thomas F. O'Brien
Investigation of audience response to dramatic poetic literature when perceived through silent reading and oral group reading, Anabel Osborn
A methodological comparison of tone decay in audiometrically normal ears, Margaret Jean Town
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Crawling and creeping patterns in relation to speech and reading, Sharon Loretta Carney
The management and referral by physicians in Montana of communicatively-impaired adults to speech and hearing services, Susan Gifford Duffey
Preliminary investigation of the effects of punishment and no-punishment on the verbal disfluencies of stutterers, Marilyn M. Pearson
History and philosophy of the quorum as a device of parliamentary procedure, William Paul White
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Survey of the influence of experimentalism in the field of general speech, Howard Joseph Ayres
Investigation of psycholinguistic and articulatory skills of a selected group of elementary school children, Valerie Smith Cole
Teachers' ability to predict the friendship status of speech-handicapped children, Charlotte Fraser Ewing
A study of the development and effect of a tape-recorded programmed instruction course in listening, Russell Wayne Jennings
Investigation of the effects of four interstimulus intervals upon electrodermal responses, Charles H. Lewis
Study of certain speech characteristics in the Job Corps population, Sherri Mace Nemec
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Suggested approach to the study of the communication of conceptually structured understandings, Roger Lee Garrett
Effectiveness of auditory visual and auditory-visual communication in transmitting information: An exploratory study, John Huey Mills
Investigation of audience response to prose literature when perceived through silent reading oral interpretation and readers theatre, Judy Lee Svore
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
Effect of time restriction on the transmission of information, John R. Baseheart
Communication set in encoding information: An experimental investigation, Richard Harger
Analysis and evaluation of criticism of debating in American high schools and colleges in selected speech publications since 1930, Scotte J. Hecht
Information transmission: A function of organization, Duane Dennis Pettersen
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
Investigation of the effect of verbal criticism upon speech fluency of normally fluent male subjects during an oral reading situation, Mary Margaret Diederichs