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Language shift and language revival in Crimea

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2019
Abstract This article presents observations and findings from an ongoing research on language revival among Italian new speakers in Crimea. Victim of Stalin’s mass deportations of minorities in the 1940s, the community experienced severe physical, demographic, social and cultural dislocation that led inexorably to language shift towards Russian ...
Bocale Paola
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Modeling language shift. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 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.
europepmc   +6 more sources

Beta-Shifts, Their Languages, and Computability [PDF]

open access: yesTheory of Computing Systems, 2009
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Contact-induced disturbances in personal pronoun systems in the Chadic – Benue-Congo convergence zone in Central Nigeria

open access: yesAfrika und Übersee, 2020
The paper looks at personal pronoun systems in languages of the convergence zone on both sides of the borderline between Benue-Congo and Chadic. Focus is on inventories and systems, meaning the overall interrelationship of pronoun shapes across the ...
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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Literary Bilingualism: Past and Present

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2018
The paperdeals with some aspects related to the history and present state of bilingualism as the phenomenon of literary creation. Nowadays it is often connected with the process of globalization.
Georgiy Teimurazovich Khukhuni
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On explaining language shift: Sociology or social psychology of language? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This study investigates the potentials and limits of sociolinguistic re- search on language shift. Starting from a position that the ultimate goal of the research must be to create a general theory of language shift of predictive power, the author ...
Péter Maitz, Maitz, Péter
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Child-Caregiver Interaction in Two Remote Indigenous Australian Communities

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
This paper reports on a study in two remote multilingual Indigenous Australian communities: Yakanarra in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and Tennant Creek in the Barkly region of the Northern Territory.
Jill eVaughan   +4 more
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Language Teacher Wellbeing across the Career Span

open access: yes, 2023
Teacher wellbeing is gaining prominence in the realm of educational psychology, although it remains a relatively nascent domain. This trend is propelled by a perceptible shift in research focus, transitioning from an overwhelming emphasis on student ...
Muhammet Yaşar YÜZLÜ
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Pergeseran Bahasa Daerah Pada Anak-Anak di Kuala Tanjung Sumatra Utara

open access: yesRanah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, 2018
This research aims to describe the condition of regional language shift among children in Kuala Tanjung. Afterwards, it will be studied whether the attitude factor and the parents’ role affect the use of regional language.
NFN Sahril
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Complexity and Simplification in Language Shift

open access: yesFrontiers 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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