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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 Languages behave similarly to living species. They display diversity, differentiate in space and time, emerge and disappear. While processes of differentiation happen at a relatively slow rate with a typical timescale of the order of 1,000 years to evolve into different languages, language extinction takes place at a substantially faster rate.
Kandler, A, Steele, J
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Urbanity and the dynamics of language shift in Galicia. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2019 Sociolinguistic phenomena often involve interactions across different scales and result in social and linguistic changes that can be tracked over time. Here, we focus on the dynamics of language shift in Galicia, a bilingual community in northwest Spain.
Mussa Juane M +3 more
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Quantifying the driving factors for language shift in a bilingual region. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Significance Languages are an important part of our culturally diverse world, yet many of today’s languages are in danger of dying out. To save endangered languages, one must first understand the dynamics behind language shift: what are the driving ...
Prochazka K, Vogl G.
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Complexity and Simplification in Language Shift
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper examines the question of linguistic complexity in two shift ecologies in northeastern Russia. It is frequently claimed that language shift results in linguistic simplification across a range of domains in the grammars of shifting speakers ...
Jessica Kantarovich +5 more
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Sindhi in Malaysia-Language maintenance or language shift?
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 This article will discuss whether the Sindhi community of Malaysia is experiencing language shift or maintaining the use of the ancestral language, Sindhi. The traditional questionnaire methodology based on the domain construct (cf.
Maya Khemlani David
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The Status of Turkish among Female Students in Migrant Turkish Families Living in Baharestan City [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 The present study investigates the status of Turkish among female students living in Baharestan in Tehran province whose parents are Turkish speakers and have already migrated to this city.
Kourosh Saberi, Katayoun Ranjbar
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LANGUAGE SHIFT IN KONJO COMMUNITY
IJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics), 2023 One local language that is the object of preservation is the Konjo language in Bulukumba Regency. The Konjo language is interesting to study further in maintaining language to determine whether the Konjo tribe in Bulukumba Regency still maintains the ...
Dwiani Septiana +3 more
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Language shift and maintenance of the Korean community in Australia
The Korean language and multilingual communities in Australasia and beyond, 2023 This study is a follow-up study of Shin and Jung’s (2016, 2018) research that has examined language shift and maintenance of the Korean community in Australia reflected in the previous Australian Censuses from 2006 to 2016.
Sin Ji Jung
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Edulite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture, 2022 This study aims to investigate parents language ideology and family language policy (FLP) among Acehnese families that impact on language shift and language maintenance of Acehnese as a heritage language.
Idaryani Idaryani, Fidyati Fidyati
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A Paradigm Shift in Machine Translation: Boosting Translation Performance of Large Language Models [PDF]
International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023 Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advancements in various NLP tasks. However, these advances have not been reflected in the translation task, especially those with moderate model sizes (i.e., 7B or 13B parameters), which ...
Haoran Xu +3 more
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