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La geolingüística catalana, ahir i avui [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
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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Revitalizing Indigenous Languages, Fostering Self‐Governance, Overcoming the Indian Act: A Case Study of Lil'wat Nation

open access: yesCanadian Public Administration, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 470-486, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

El yeísmo en el centro peninsular: avances desde el ALPI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
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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“Good but Not for Us”: Contesting Neoliberal Representations of Feminism Among Beneficiaries of Gender Emancipation Projects in Rural India

open access: yesJournal of Social Issues, Volume 81, Issue 3, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Etnograficzne materiały archiwalne jako źródło badań pogranicznych gwar przejściowych

open access: yesLingVaria
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
doaj   +1 more source

Bill Labov: Looking Back, Looking Forward

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 309-316, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Double modals in Australian and New Zealand English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 415-438, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing Human Diversity in South America's Southern Cone: Linguistic, Morphometric, and Genetic Perspectives Explorando la Diversidad Humana en el Cono Sur de América del Sur: Perspectivas Lingüísticas, Morfométricas y Genéticas

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 187, Issue 3, July 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

BaTelÒc: A text base for the Occitan language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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]

open access: yes, 2016
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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