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Hypercorrection as a Symptom of Language Change: Majorcan Catalan Standard Pronunciation
Languages, 2022 The mutual influence between dialects and standard language in terms of upward or downward convergence, the creation of a diaglossic repertoire, and a typology of relations dialects/standard is of utmost importance for the analysis of language evolution.
Nicolau Dols
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Plastic brains and the dialectics of dialectics
Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2013 This article advances the thinking of Lima, Ostermann and Rezende’s “Marxism in Vygotskian approaches to cultural studies of science education” and Mark Zuss’ response to their paper. Firstly, it introduces Catherine Malabou’s concept of plasticity, from which Hegel’s dialectic can be re-read as historical materialist self-determination in a way that ...
Andrew Loxley +2 more
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Greek-Canadian Koiné: The Emergence of a Koiné among Greek-Canadian Immigrants
Languages, 2022 The present paper is a contribution to the study of a new Modern Greek variety that is spoken in Canada by first-generation immigrants who arrived in this country between 1945 and 1975. This variety displays features originating from: (a) A Common Modern
Panayiotis A. Pappas +2 more
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Unifying models of dialect spread and extinction using surface tension dynamics [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 We provide a unified mathematical explanation of two classical forms of spatial linguistic spread. The wave model describes the radiation of linguistic change outwards from a central focus.
James Burridge
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Zoomorphic Pattern in Collective Nicknames among the Residents of the Russian North [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2020 The paper studies collective nicknames of the residents of the Russian North (Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions) to describe a productive zoomorphic naming pattern.
Anna A. Makarova, Yulia B. Popova
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Syn-Thèses, 2019 This paper explores the perceptual power of accent and dialect through an interdisciplinary prism, which renders the utterance of accent performative and the ideological load of accent memetic.
Lydia Hayes
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2009 The paper describes the new Corpus of Spoken Faroese. While the corpus is still under development with respect to content (number of informants, dialects and words), it is included in the larger Nordic Dialect Corpus, which means that all technical ...
Janne Bondi Johannessen
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Ибероамериканские тетради, 2018 The main objective of the research: The article analyzes a notion of a “national variant of multinational language” introduced by the academic G.V. Stepánov, as well as a classification of forms of modern multinational Spanish language as a linguistic ...
Svetlana Nikíforova
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Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2016 Review Review on Janusz Rieger’s Słownictwo polszczyzny gwarowej na Brasławszczyźnie, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Sub Lupa, 2014, 459 ss. The given work characterizes Polish dialectal lexis including foreign influence in the Brasław region.
Michał Głuszkowski
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Relative and Conditional Clause Constructions in Ìyàgbà Dialect
Journal of Language and Education, 2017 Relative Clause has been discussed as a subordinate clause used to qualify a noun. It narrows down the meaning of the noun it qualifies. A relative clause marker tí is inserted to accomplish the noun qualified having coded in the sentence initially in ...
Akintoye Oluwole Samuel
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