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ABSTRACT Despite its widespread use for quality assurance within the academic publishing economy, the peer review process is significantly flawed, and to a large extent, “broken.” Emerging literature from researchers who work from marginalized cultural, theoretical, and political perspectives shows that while peer review processes are useful in ...
Kathomi Gatwiri, Zoe Krupka, Mujib Abid
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Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness
ABSTRACT Sociophonetic perception is often studied using versions of the matched guise technique (MGT). Linguists using this technique appear united in the methodological assumptions that participants believe the manipulation and that this belief influences perception below the level of introspective awareness.
Kyler Laycock, Kevin B. McGowan
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The author presents considerations on logopaedics as a science, exposing the interdisciplinary character of this discipline. The problem discussed in the paper is depicted in the context of two processes observed in science, namely dividing and combining
Danuta Pluta-Wojciechowska
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Towards a model of world Englishes and multilingual variation
Abstract Drawing on research on multilingualism in South Africa and India, this paper attempts to integrate world Englishes studies and variationist sociolinguistics; in other words, to fill in a missing dialogue between Braj Kachru and William Labov.
Rajend Mesthrie
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Employing geographical principles for sampling in state of the art dialectological projects [PDF]
The aims of this paper are twofold: First, we locate the most effective human geographical methods for sampling across space in large-scale dialectological projects.
Alvanides, Seraphim +1 more
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features
ABSTRACT Discussions of sociolinguistic awareness are often about how patterns observed in one practice (often linguistic production) appear in others (often person perception or metalinguistic commentary). Models like Labov's indicator/marker/stereotype trichotomy force this complexity into a single dimension, due to presupposing a conscious ...
Kathryn Campbell‐Kibler
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Spanish dialectology and Grammar
La variación gramatical del español ha atraído el interés de los estudiosos de forma creciente desde finales del siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI, en paralelo a lo sucedido en otras lenguas.
Fernández-Ordóñez Hernández, Inés
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Tonal Phonotactics in Southern Min
Abstract This paper is the first to explore tonal phonotactics in the world's natural languages. Zhangzhou Southern Min is theoretically assumed to have 7320 possible syllables but more than 71% of them are not empirically attested. Each lexical tone is logically possible to generate 915 syllables; however, the attested number only ranges from 98 ...
Yishan Huang
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MEDIA AND DIALECTOLOGY: POSSIBLE DIALOGUES
From the experience with the subject Dialectology and geolinguistic in Brazil, taught by Professor PhD Vanderci de Andrade Aguilera, in a post-graduate degree in Language Studies State University of Londrina (UEL) is intended to draw short dialogues ...
Hertez Wendel de Camargo +2 more
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Abstract The primary aim of this work is to propose a diachrony of complementizer systems in the upper southern Italian dialects (USIDs). While previous diachronic studies have focused mainly on the transition from Latin to Romance, we aim to address several unanswered questions about the transition from medieval southern Italo‐Romance—in particular ...
Sara N. Cardullo, Kim A. Groothuis
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