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Sociolinguistic competence and varietal repertoires in a second language: A study on addressee‐dependent varietal behavior using virtual reality

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 108, Issue 2, Page 385-411, Summer 2024.
The present study takes a variationist perspective to explore the varietal repertoires of adult learners of German as a second language (L2), that is, their variable use of standard German, Austro‐Bavarian dialect, and mixture varieties.
Mason A. Wirtz   +3 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Pronominal system of Soikkola Ingrian: personal, demonstrative, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns and their variation

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022
This research analyses the pronominal system of Soikkola Ingrian. The main goal of the article is descriptive, because existing publications on Soikkola Ingrian give only a superficial analysis of pronouns and there are no detailed descriptions based on
Anna Schwarz, Fedor Rozhanskiy
doaj   +2 more sources

The Illative Marker of Monosyllabic Words in Soikkola Ingrian [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2023
This article analyses the vowel in the illative marker of monosyllabic nouns which usually copies the quality of the stem vowels. The data come from different questionnaires recorded by Soikkola Ingrian speakers in the 21st century.
Fedor Rozhanskiy
doaj   +2 more sources

Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
The aim of this work is to identify and analyze a set of challenges that are likely to be encountered when one embarks on fieldwork in linguistic communities that feature small, young, and/or non-standard languages with a goal to elicit big sets of rich ...
Evelina Leivada   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Functionally Equivalent Variants in a Non-standard Variety and Their Implications for Universal Grammar: A Spontaneous Speech Corpus [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Findings from the field of experimental linguistics have shown that a native speaker may judge a variant that is part of her grammar as unacceptable, but still use it productively in spontaneous speech.
Evelina Leivada   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Dative Microvariation in African Varieties of Portuguese

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022
In this paper we compare dative ditransitive structures in nativized and nativizing urban varieties of Portuguese spoken in Angola, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe, using a corpus-based approach. It is shown that the expression
Inês Duarte   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Word Order, Intonation, and Prosodic Phrasing: Individual Differences in the Production and Identification of Narrow and Wide Focus in Urdu

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
This study investigates speaker based variation in the use of word order and intonation to mark narrow and wide focus in Urdu. The identification of focus type and position, as well as the prosodic phrasing of declarative sentences produced in the target
Farhat Jabeen
doaj   +2 more sources

Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift. [PDF]

open access: yesLang Speech, 2022
A growing body of research in psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics shows that we have a strong tendency to repeat linguistic material that we have recently produced, seen, or heard.
Villarreal D, Clark L.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Social networks and intraspeaker variation during periods of language change [PDF]

open access: green, 2008
Previous work has revealed general characteristics of language change at both the level of linguistic communities as well as individual speakers. What are the properties of language users such that we can account for these characteristics?
Celina Troutman   +2 more
openalex   +3 more sources

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