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The Role of Intermediary Languages in the Development of Lexical and Grammatical Features of Borrowings: Investigating Italian and Russian Languages

Translation Studies: Theory and Practice
This study aims to contribute to the analysis of specific words entering a target language (TL) from a source one (SL), through intermediary languages (IL).
Tania Triberio, Erika Avakova
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Transfer and Contact-Induced Variation in Child Basque

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Young Basque-speaking children produce Differential Object Marking (DOM) and pre-verbal complementizers in their speech, variants argued to stem from contact with Spanish (Austin, 2006, Rodríguez-Ordóñez, 2013). In this paper, I claim that despite their
Jennifer eAustin
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As necessidades da pesquisa experimental em psicolingüística no Brasil

Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011
This paper takes a historical perspective on the state of the art of experimental psycholinguistics in Brazil and attempts to make a diagnosis of the resources needed, both material and human, for the advancement of the field in this country.
Leonor Scliar-Cabral
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Plautdietsch in Contact: Influences of English and Spanish on Mennonite Plautdietsch Speakers in Seminole, Texas

The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020
Plautdietsch is a Germanic language mostly spoken in the Americas. With a long history of migration, it has been influenced by a variety of linguistics contact situations.
Fallon Hovland
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Le projet de corpus Phonologie du créole et du français mauricien – protocole d’enquête

Études Créoles
This article aims to present our collaborative research project Phonology of Creole and Mauritian French. This project, which began in 2023, fills a gap by systematically describing the phonological systems of Mauritian French and Creole.
Elissa Pustka, Guilhem Florigny, Muhsina Alleesaib, Shrita Hassamal, Rachel Sapermal   +4 more
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Ibridazione Culturale: Neologizzazione a Fonte Multipla in Lingue ‘Reinventate’ e in Lingue a Scrittura ‘Fono-Logografica’ [PDF]

Ethnorêma, 2010
This article analyses a fascinating and multifaceted mechanism of lexical expansion. It introduces the term „phono-semantic matching‟ to refer to the phenomenon in which a foreign lexical item is reproduced in the host language, using pre-existent native
Ghil'ad Zuckermann
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Grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin

Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2012
Nigerian Pidgin (hereafter NP) has assumed elaborated roles and functions, gaining new grounds in different sociolinguistic domains as a result of its sustained social expansion process.
Eyo Offiong Mensah
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On Selected Origins of Contact Languages. A Socio-Historical Perspective

Styles of Communication, 2012
The external socio-historical factors that determine the rise of contact languages define the new varieties and decide on their form and structures. Pidgin languages arise as a consequence of many social and historical processes which involve political ...
Aleksandra Knapik
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O conceito de “Língua Geral do Brasil” revisitado à luz da linguística de contato

Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2019
In this study, we aim to: (i) revisit the various 'concepts' of Brazilian Língua Geral (LG) from current studies relating with language contact; (ii) present new reflections on the sociohistorical conditions involving this type of language; (iii) to ...
Márcia Santos Duarte de Oliveira, Maria de Lurdes Zanoli, Marcelo Módolo   +2 more
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Spatial effects with missing data

Open Linguistics
In recent years, there has been an increased attention and interest in quantitative and statistical models of language contact and language diffusion in space.
Naranjo Matías Guzmán, Mertner Miri, Urban Matthias   +2 more
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