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Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches
The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal ...
Gibson, Hannah +20 more
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Adding the microdimension to the study of language change in contact. Three case studies [PDF]
, 2022 Syntactic change in contact is generally explained as a result of cognitive, structural/typological, or sociolinguistic factors. However, the relative weight of these factors in shaping the outputs of contact is yet to be assessed.
Terenghi, Silvia +5 more
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Style: language variation and identity
, 2007 Style refers to ways of speaking - how speakers use the resource of language variation to make meaning in social encounters. This 2007 book develops a coherent theoretical approach to style in sociolinguistics, illustrated with copious examples.
Coupland, Nikolas John Robert
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The acrolect in Jamaica: The architecture of phonological variation [PDF]
, 2018 An ability to speak Jamaican Standard English is the stated requirement for any managerial or frontline position in corporate Jamaica. This research looks at the phonological variation that occurs in the formal speech of this type of employee, and ...
Irvine-Sobers, G. Alison
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Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this work is to identify and analyze a set of challenges that are likely to be encountered when one embarks on fieldwork in linguistic communities that feature small, young, and/or non-standard languages with a goal to elicit big sets of rich ...
Leivada, Evelina +9 more
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A language for software variation research [PDF]
Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Generative programming and component engineering, 2010 Managing variation is an important problem in software engineering that takes different forms, ranging from version control and configuration management to software product lines. In this paper, I present our recent work on the choice calculus, a fundamental representation for software variation that can serve as a common language of discourse for ...
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Scalar effects of social networks on language variation [PDF]
, 2017 The role of social networks in language variation has been studied using a wide range of metrics. This study critically examines the effect of different dimensions of networks on different aspects of language variation.
Sharma, D, Devyani Sharma
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Arabic Slang Language Use in Pesantren: An Interpretive Case Study
Langkawi: Journal of The Association for Arabic and English, 2023 Although research on the use of slang language has been widely studied, there is a paucity of studies that specifically looks at Arabic slang language among santri community in Indonesia.
Batmang Batmang
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The alternation between exterior locative cases and postpositions in Estonian web texts
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 . A probabilistic grammar approach to language assumes that grammatical knowledge has a probabilistic component and that this probabilistic knowledge of language is derived from language experience. It is assumed that the extent and nature of grammatical
Jane Klavan
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DEDICATED TO LANGUAGE VARIATIONS
The International Journal of Applied Language Studies and Culture, 2020 We use languages for different purposes in everyday life. Most people use more than one language, and they may be considered as bilingual (speaking two languages) or multilingual (speaking more than two languages). In simple terms, as Wardhaugh elaborates, language may be defined as a code or system that is used by societies to communicate with other ...
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