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Aspects of Linguistic Variation [PDF]
, 2018 This volume brings together papers on linguistic variation. It takes a broad perspective, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation, and examines phenomena ranging from negation and TAM over ...
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"Mam, ma troosers is fa'in doon!" Community, caregiver and child in the acquisition of variation in Scottish dialect [PDF]
, 2007 Recent work on acquisition in sociolinguistic research suggests that some aspects of the structured variation found in adult speech are evident in children's speech from the very start of language acquisition, and input from the primary caregiver is ...
Durham, Mercedes +3 more
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Glossa, 2023 Claims have been made about the relationship between the degree of lexical variation and the social structure of a sign language community (e.g., population size), but to date there exist no large-scale cross-linguistic comparisons to address these ...
Adam Charles Schembri +2 more
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Cross-linguistic variation in modality systems: The role of mood
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 The St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) subjunctive mood appears in nine distinct environments, with a range of semantic effects, including weakening an imperative to a polite request, turning a question into an uncertainty statement, and creating an ...
Lisa Matthewson
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The Plural is Unmarked: Evidence from Turkish, Hungarian and German
Glossa, 2023 Quantity distinctions are morphologically indicated in the majority of languages.However, the marking of these distinctions exhibits a high degree of cross-linguistic variation with respect to the number of quantity categories, their agreement properties,
Artemis Alexiadou +4 more
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Linguistic Discovery, 2010 The aim of this paper is to explore the degree to which semantic maps and conceptual spaces may comprehensively describe cross-linguistic variation by discussing the types of phenomena that may be consistently represented in a unified account.
Caterina Mauri
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Cross-Linguistic Variation in Spoken Discourse Markers
, 2022 This chapter aims to analyze the variation in use and functions of a broad bottom–up selection of discourse markers across four languages from different typological families, namely French and Spanish (Romance), English (Germanic), and Polish (Slavic).
Degand, Liesbeth +3 more
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Cross-Linguistic Variation and Efficiency [PDF]
, 2014 Abstract This book argues that major patterns of variation across languages are structured by general principles of efficiency in language use and communication. Evidence for these comes from languages permitting structural choices from which selections are made in performance, e.g.
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At the crossroads of typology and language(s) in use
Linguistic Typology at the CrossroadsA long-standing issue in linguistic typology concerns the relationship between cross-linguistic generalization and the empirical foundations on which such generalizations are built.
Silvia Ballarè +2 more
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Adults regularize variation when linguistic cues suggest low input reliability [PDF]
, 2022 Children regularize inconsistent probabilistic patterns in linguistic input, yet they also acquire and match probabilistic sociolinguistic variation.
Schuler, Kathryn, Chen, Yiran
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