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Diatopic variation in digital space
The availability of large amounts of social media text offers tremendous potential for studies of diatopic variation. A case in point is the linguistic geography of Texas, which is at present insufficiently described in traditional dialectological research.
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The decrease in diatopic variation in metropolitan French, which manifests as a standardisation of pronunciation, has been documented for several decades. Drawing on various dialectological experiments, this article discusses the impact of this levelling
Zoë Boughton
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Codification of Terminology: a Case Study of English Legal Terms
The present paper is devoted to the phenomenon of codification and the main inconsistencies between the theoretical requirements for a term and actual terminological units found in terminological dictionaries of law.
A. G. Anisimova, N. Yu. Tikhonova
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L’Atlas des parlers de Bahia (APFB) et la géographie linguistique au Brésil
This paper brings some reflections on the role of the publication of the first regional Brazilian linguistic Atlas (APFB) to the development of dialectal studies in our country. It discusses (i) the reasons why dialectal researches become reality only at
Carlota Ferreira, Dinah Callou
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Norma policéntrica del español frente a la traducción jurídica polaco‑española
Polycentric Spanish Norm Towards the Polish‑Spanish Legal Translation The Spanish, being the official language of Spain and many other countries, is characterized by an important dialectal diversity that is reflected in the differences at all ...
Piotr Sorbet
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Diatopic Variation in Primary School: from English and its varieties to other languages
This project focuses on the diatopic variation of the English language, its status as a global language (Crystal, 2003) and how this topic can be tackled in primary schools. Using English, and its linguistic varieties (McArthur, 2001; Meyer, 2009) as a conduit for the teaching of other languages, in hopes of developing the students’ plurilingual and ...
Fernandes, Marta Alexandra Ferreira da Costa
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Post-aspiration in standard Italian [PDF]
Voiceless geminate stops in Italian are typically described as unaspirated in all positions (e.g. [1, 2]). However, recent acoustic phonetic analysis of part of a corpus of standard Italian speech data has shown that the geminate voiceless stops /pp tt ...
Stevens, Mary, Hajek, John
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The variability of synonymic oppositions chior–orb, vechi–bătrîn, copac–pom, mal–țărm and their lexicographic treatment [PDF]
The analysis of a series of synonymic oppositions in Romanian aims at pointing to their variation on a diachronic and diatopic level, the relationship between these two levels, as well as how these linguistic realities are treated at a lexicographic ...
Dinu Moscal
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Sociopragmatic and diatopic variation in the use of the mitigation [PDF]
This paper is part of the variationist studies made under the internacional project known as PRESEEA (Project for the Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish From Spain and America).
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Variation der Präpositionswahl in direktiven Argumenten im Tschechischen und Deutschen kontrastiv
Preposition choice is amongst the most prominent phenomena in which German in Austria differs from other varieties of German. Many instances are explained by language contact with Slavic languages in general and Czech in particular.
Agnes Kim, Maria Schinko
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