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Lifespans and Styles, 2015 This is the first volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation . The journal was inspired by the fact that, while many undergraduates produce exceptional scholarship, most do not get an opportunity to share their ...
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English
World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 523-543, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Despite notable exceptions, research on requests in world Englishes has so far largely involved role plays, questionnaires and discourse completion tasks. Moreover, research on requests in South Asian varieties of English is rather scarce. Therefore, the present study employs a multifactorial approach towards requests in Indian and Sri Lankan ...
Julia Degenhardt
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Re-examining the /eː-εː/ merger in Finland-Swedish:Regional and stylistic variation [PDF]
, 2022 This article examines regional and stylistic variation in the merger of front vowels /eː/ and /ɛː/ in Finland-Swedish. The study investigates the merger by comparing formant data from 141 speakers from four Swedish-speaking regions in Finland ...
Strandberg, Janine Astrid Elvina +7 more
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Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating insights from analyses of structured variation, which is defined as the interchange of linguistic forms where the choice to use one form over the other is probabilistically conditioned by linguistic and social factors.
Naomi Shin
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 694-725, Winter 2022., 2022 Graphical abstract: Abstract This data‐driven study framed in the interactionist approach investigates the influence of social graph topology and peer interaction dynamics among foreign exchange students enrolled in an intensive German language course on second language acquisition (SLA) outcomes.
MICHAŁ B. PARADOWSKI +3 more
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Visibly invisible: The study of middle class African American English
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Middle class African American English (AAE) has remained largely invisible to the sociolinguistic lens despite the fact that over 50 years of research has made it one of the most examined varieties of American English. This gap in the sociolinguistic literature is largely reflective of a strategic effort on the part of linguists to dismantle ...
Tracey L. Weldon
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“Sassy Queens”: Stylistic orthographic variation in Twitter and the enregisterment of AAVE
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 245-264, April 2020., 2020 Abstract Recent computational sociolinguistic analyses of social media have emphasized the potential of using orthographic variation as a proxy for speech, thereby permitting macro‐level quantitative studies of regional and social variation (e.g. Eisenstein, 2015).
Christian Ilbury
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Inter- and intra-speaker variation in French schwa
Glossa, 2016 Quantitative constraint-based theories of optionality typically aim to model the frequency with which an individual speaker’s grammar maps one input onto various output forms.
Aaron Kaplan, Abby Kaplan, Andrew Bayles
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The Illative Marker of Monosyllabic Words in Soikkola Ingrian [PDF]
Linguistica 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
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Pulling Out All the Stops: Referee Design and Phonetic Correlates of Gay Men’s English
Lifespans and Styles, 2015 Studies of intraspeaker variation and the linguistic indexing of sexual identity have formed an important part of recent research in variationist sociolinguistics.
Victoria Dickson, Yorath Turner
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