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Language Contact and Language Conflict: The Case of Yoruba-English Bilinguals
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007 The complex dynamics of a language contact situation can really not be explored in just one paper. Thus, the present paper examines only an aspect of the Yoruba-English contact situation with regards to the individual personalities involved.
Dada, S. A.
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Dynamics of interacting populations language contact in the Lwoo languages of Bahr el-Ghazal
Studies in African Linguistics, 2003 Number inflection systems in Western Nilotic languages appear highly complex and diverse. Comparative work on Nilotic and other Nilo-Saharan families has shown that these languages have a morphologically tripartite system with marked plurals and a bare ...
Anne Storch
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Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 It is generally assumed that when there is contact between two societies whose members speak different languages certain linguistic and other cultural changes result, which must be attributed directly to the fact of contact.
Fook Khoon Wong
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Usage-Based Contact Linguistics: Effects of Frequency and Similarity in Language Contact
Journal of Language Contact, 2021 The influence of usage frequency, and particularly of linguistic similarity on human linguistic behavior and linguistic change in situations of language contact are well documented in contact linguistics literature.
Nikolay Hakimov, A. Backus
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bioRxiv, 2021 When speakers of two or more languages interact, they are likely to influence each other: contact leaves traces in the linguistic record, which in turn can reveal geographic areas of past human interaction and migration.
P. Ranacher +7 more
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Feature Borrowing in Language Contact
Languages, 2022 In this paper, we consider mood selection in embedded clauses by focusing on a German-based minority language, Cimbrian, which is spoken in a northern Italian enclave. Mood selection in Cimbrian relies on the presence of two different complementizers, az
Alessandra Tomaselli +2 more
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Pilihan dan Sikap Bahasa Masyarakat di Perbatasan Indonesia dan Timor Leste
Ranah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, 2020 The border community in Malacca Regency, East Nusa Tenggara consists of two groups of people, namely indigenous groups who have lived for a long time and groups of people who choose to join the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. The existence of
NFN Mukhamdanah, Retno Handayani
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Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2016 Bennett (2014) presents an analysis of phonotactic restrictions on nasal consonants in Obolo [ann] within the confines of Optimality Theory (OT) and Surface Correspondence (SC).
Bruce Connell
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Slovene-English Language Contact and Language Change
ELOPE, 2011 The paper focuses on Slovene - English language contact and the potential language change resulting from it. Both the immigrant context (the U.S. and Canada) and Slovenia, where direct and indirect language contact can be observed respectively, are ...
Nada Šabec
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Prlekija-Međimurje dialect language contact
Hrvatski Dijalektološki Zbornik, 2017 This paper presents linguistic data from the eastern part of the Slovenian-Croatian border. The paper will examine the phonology, morphology and lexica of dialects in this bordering linguistic territory, and draw a comparison of linguistic features of ...
Tjaša Jakop
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