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Modeling the Emergence of Contact Languages [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2015 Contact languages are born out of the non-trivial interaction of two (or more) parent languages. Nowadays, the enhanced possibility of mobility and communication allows for a strong mixing of languages and cultures, thus raising the issue of whether there are any pure languages or cultures that are unaffected by contact with others. As with bacteria or
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, 2023 AbstractThis chapter provides comprehensive background information about past and present language contact and contact languages in Australia. It focuses on the historical language contact and shift processes, underway since imposition of settler-colonial society from 1788, which have profoundly altered modern Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Felicia Bisnath, Savithry Namboodiripad
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Language Contact and Bilingualism
, 2006 What happens - sociologically, linguistically, educationally, politically - when more than one language is in regular use in a community? How do speakers handle these languages simultaneously, and what influence does this language contact have on the languages involved? <br><br>Although most people in the world use more than one language in
Appel, R., Muysken, P.
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Contact with a Contact Language
Journal of Language ContactAbstract Vanuatu is a highly multilingual country, with more than 110 Indigenous Oceanic languages, as well as an English-lexifier creole, Bislama, which is used as national contact language. Speakers of Vatlongos, one of Vanuatu’s Oceanic languages, use a high rate of borrowings from Bislama. This article discusses Bislama borrowings
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Language contact: Peaceful coexistence or emergence of a contact language.
, 2017 This paper presents a simple model of linguistic priming between languages in contact , based on the utterance selection model (USM) for language change of Baxter et al. (2006). It will be shown that the emergence or the non-emergence of a new contact language depends on the way potentially bilingual agents choose a language to communicate .
Michaud, Jérôme, Schaden, Gerhard
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Chemchemi International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018 The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that languages in general adopt the monogenetic approach and evolve in a totally independent milieu, and that, however much one fosters the polygenetic approach, they still remain none the less identifable in the light of the characteristics which distinguish and almost isolate them for and as what they are
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ESpma: A method for assessing biological/non-biological interfaces using point-clouds-based structural features and protein language models. [PDF]
Protein SciNozawa S, Tomii K, Fukasawa Y.
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Trying to Survive in an Emotional Storm: A Qualitative Framework Analysis of Anonymous Youth Helpline Conversations on Mental Health and Everyday Life. [PDF]
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