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Open Linguistics, 2017 A unique collection of about 900 Greek documents, issued by the chancellery of the Patriarch of Constantinople in the 14th c., provides insight into the linguistic level at one place in the capital of the Byzantine Empire. So far research focussed nearly
Gastgeber Christian
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Relativized temporal phrases: Language variation and change in contemporary Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2023 This paper discusses the use of relativized temporal phrases as a domain of particularly intense variation and change in contemporary Portuguese. Various phenomena indicative of competition among linguistic forms (with a special focus on the standard ...
Telmo Moia
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Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning [PDF]
, 2010 Human languages may be shaped not only by the (individual psychological) processes of language acquisition, but also by population-level processes arising from repeated language learning and use.
Smith, Kenny, Wonnacott, Elizabeth
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Address forms in Tatar spoken in Finland and Estonia
Open Linguistics, 2023 Tatar minorities have lived in Finland and Estonia as a multilingual diaspora for more than a century. This study explores how the different generations of Tatars living in Finland and Estonia perceive polite forms of address, focusing on the choice of ...
Sild Orsolya
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Dialectometric analysis of language variation in Twitter
, 2017 In the last few years, microblogging platforms such as Twitter have given rise to a deluge of textual data that can be used for the analysis of informal communication between millions of individuals.
Donoso, Gonzalo, Sanchez, David
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The role of INFL in code-switching: a study of a Papiamento heritage community in the Netherlands
Frontiers in Language SciencesIntroductionIn heritage bilingualism studies, code-switching has often been overlooked, with a focus on either the heritage language or the dominant societal language of the bilingual individual.
M. Carmen Parafita Couto +4 more
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Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey [PDF]
, 2016 Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language.
de Jong, Franciska +3 more
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Problem solving is embedded in context… so how do we measure it?
Frontiers in PsychologyProblem solving encompasses the broad domain of human, goal-directed behaviors. Though we may attempt to measure problem solving using tightly controlled and decontextualized tasks, it is inextricably embedded in both reasoners’ experiences and their ...
Katherine T. Rhodes +2 more
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Phonological Differences Across Varieties of Latin American Spanish
Canadian Journal for the Academic Mind, 2023 Latin America is a diverse linguistic landscape, evident in the extensive phonological variations within its dominant language, Spanish. This study explores the phonological diversity across Latin American Spanish dialects, including processes such as ...
Kathryn Jajo-Yacoub, Mariana Ramirez
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Standardizing and destandardizing practices at a Flemish secondary school : a sociolinguistic ethnographic perspective on Flemish pupils’ speech practices [PDF]
, 2016 For a couple of decades now, in Flanders, the functional elaboration of what is generally called tussentaal, i.e. mesolectal language use situated in between (‘tussen’) acrolectal Standard Dutch and basilectal Flemish dialects, has caused increasing ...
Van Lancker, Inge
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