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La geolingüística catalana, ahir i avui [PDF]
After surveying a number of books on geolinguistics which have completely or partially focused on the Catalan language from the seventies, this paper points out the importance of continental atlases and linguistic research groups to the development of ...
Veny, Joan
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Abstract This article examines how Indigenous language revitalization serves as a foundation for self‐governance and legal resurgence, focusing on the Lil'wat Nation's efforts to reclaim Ucwalmícwts. Drawing on presentations from the 30th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium and community‐based sources, the article highlights how language encodes
Qátsya7 Mason Ducharme +5 more
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El yeísmo en el centro peninsular: avances desde el ALPI [PDF]
This paper studies the advance of the /ʎ/-/ʝ/ merger (yeísmo) from the 1930s in territories linguistically considered transitional between northern and southern Castilian, in rural speeches from the center of the Iberian Peninsula.
García Mouton, Pilar +1 more
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ABSTRACT Existing literature illustrates how development agendas reproduce colonial constructions of women in the Global South as backward and passive and attribute their poverty to traditional cultural practices rather than material inequalities. Yet, little is known about how the intended beneficiaries of women's emancipation programs respond to such
Keshia D'silva
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Etnograficzne materiały archiwalne jako źródło badań pogranicznych gwar przejściowych
ETHNOGRAPHIC ARCHIVAL MATERIALS AS A SOURCE OF THE STUDY OF TRANSITIONAL BORDER DIALECTS The paper presents materials from the Polish-Belarusian-Lithuanian borderland dating from the beginning of the 20th century, deposited in the Department of ...
Katarzyna Konczewska
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Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward
ABSTRACT Bill Labov passed away peacefully at home on December 17, 2024, with his wife and fellow Penn linguist Gillian Sankoff by his side. He leaves behind a legacy so large that it is hard to put into words. All three authors were fortunate enough to have had Bill as our PhD supervisor (Laurel: 2012, Meredith: 2014, Betsy: 2018).
Betsy Sneller +2 more
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Double modals in Australian and New Zealand English
Abstract This paper reports the first large‐scale corpus study of double modal usage in Australian and New Zealand Englishes, based on a multi‐million‐word corpus of geolocated automatic speech recognition transcripts from YouTube. Double modals are considered rare grammatical features of English, which have long been extremely difficult to observe in ...
Cameron Morin, Steven Coats
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ABSTRACT Objectives Studying the relationship between biological and cultural diversity can lead to rich insights into human history. South America has been relatively neglected in this kind of work, even though it intriguingly exhibits unexpectedly high biological and cultural diversity.
Lumila Paula Menéndez, Matthias Urban
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BaTelÒc: A text base for the Occitan language [PDF]
Language Documentation, as defined by Himmelmann (2006), aims at compiling and preserving linguistic data for studies in linguistics, literature, his- tory, ethnology, sociology.
Bras, Myriam, Vergez-Couret, Marianne
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A Kernel Independence Test for Geographical Language Variation [PDF]
Quantifying the degree of spatial dependence for linguistic variables is a key task for analyzing dialectal variation. However, existing approaches have important drawbacks.
Eisenstein, Jacob, Nguyen, Dong
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