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Linguistic stability and divergence

2014
In contrast to the amount of research that has been performed on linguistic convergence in language contact, this paper focuses on the possibility of linguistic systems remaining stable, or even diverging, in language contact settings. It carves out multiple relevant mechanisms and factors that influence linguistic stability and divergence (e.g ...
Karoline Kühl, Kurt Braunmüller
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Intellectual Agents of Trans-linguistic Divergence

2017
This chapter maps key ideas and pedagogies for worldly orientations to internationalising education. In doing so, it develops insights into non-Western Higher Degree Researchers (HDRs) as intellectual agents through exploring practices of trans-linguistic divergence.
Michael Singh, Jinghe Han
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Linguistic divergence in Fort Chipewyan

Language in Society, 1991
ABSTRACTScollon and Scollon (1979) claimed that the consonantal system of Chipewyan in Fort Chipewyan has been reduced to 16 segments from 39 influenced by Cree, a case of linguistic convergence. This conclusion was based on their incoherent and indiscriminate admixture of variable data.
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DIVERGENT REDUPLICATION AS A PHENOMENON OF LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY

Ural Philological Herald. Series Language. System. Personality: the Linguistics of Creativity, 2020
В статье анализируется редупликация как лингвистический феномен и его роль в языковой игре. Редупликация существует в подавляющем большинстве языков мира. Несмотря на множество исследований графического и фонетического своеобразия редупликатов в различных языках, содержательная характеристика данных лексических единиц освещена недостаточно ...
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Linguistic convergence/divergence or degree of bilingualism?

Journal of French Language Studies, 2016
In their article, Mougeon, Hallion, Bigot, and Papen attempt to explain the similarities and differences among four varieties of Canadian French spoken outside Quebec (and New Brunswick) in the use of the restriction formsrien que, juste, seulement (que), andne . . . que. Mougeon and colleagues focused on the French varieties spoken in Welland (Ontario)
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Linguistic divergence under contact

2019
Abstract The normal result of language contact is widely assumed to be convergence, as manifested in classic Sprachbünde and caused through metatypy, cognitive economy, shared norms of conversational practice, etc. Yet at the same time there is growing evidence that contact can also produce divergence, originating with Larsen’s idea of ‘neighbour ...
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Linguistic Divergence of Sinhala and Tamil Languages in Machine Translation

2018 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2018
This paper presents a study of the lexical-semantic divergence between Sinhala and Tamil languages. Study of divergence is critical as differences in linguistic and extra-linguistic features in languages play pivotal roles in translation. This research the first study of the divergence between Sinhala and Tamil languages and is based on Dorr's ...
W.S.N. Dilshani, S. Yashothara, R. T. Uthayasanker, S. Jayasena   +3 more
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Quaker Plain Speech: a policy of linguistic divergence

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1995
When the Singular pronoun thou began to lose ground in the 1600s in Standard English, there was one group ofnonconformists, the Quakers, who resisted this change and initiated a policy of linguistic divergence called Quaker Plain Speech. Quaker Plain Speech wasfoundedon a contradiction between the inclusive aims of the policy and the inherently ...
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Linguistic Divergence and the Collapse of Preclassic Civilization in Southern Mesoamerica

American Antiquity, 1987
Based on published lexicostatistical dates, two intervals in the prehistory of southern Mesoamerica stand out as fertile periods in terms of the generation of new languages: the Terminal Preclassic/early Early Classic Periods, and the Early Postclassic Period.
Bruce H. Dahlin, Robin Quizar, Andrea Dahlin   +2 more
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Linguistic Convergence and Divergence in Middle Earth

2016
While respecting efforts to develop general theories of language, this chapter illustrates data-centric atheoretical scholarship through an avatar based on Angus McIntosh (1914–2005), after whom the center for historical linguistics at University of Edinburgh is named, in Lord of the Rings Online.
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