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Analyzing language variation: Where sociolinguistics and linguistic typology meet [PDF]
, 2023 This book offers a collection of chapters that explore the interplay between crosslinguistic and intra-linguistic perspectives to the study of language variation.1 Variation is an inherent property of natural languages and is pervasive across several ...
Silvia Ballarè, Guglielmo Inglese
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The relevance of language variation refers to the relevance and importance of the diversity that exists in languages. Language diversity includes differences in pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and even cultural nuances across regions, social groups, and historical contexts. Language is closely related to cultural identity.
Christopher J. Hall +2 more
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Regional variation in the pronunciation of /s/ in the Dutch language area [PDF]
, 2019 This paper reports on an explorative sociophonetic study of the phoneme /s/ in the Dutch language area. Our aim is to investigate the regional variation in the realisation of this phoneme, and to test experimentally the observation of Collins & Mees ...
Heeren, W.F.L. +6 more
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Register in Czech: Designing an MDA-based experimental study
LingBaW, 2023 There are no conventionalized ways to investigate the results of multidimensional analysis (MDA) from the perceptual perspective in an experimental setting. An MDA of the Czech corpus Koditex by Cvrček et al.
Anna Marklová +4 more
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Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment [PDF]
, 2019 Contrary to Labov’s Principle of style shifting, studies in language obsolescence portray speakers of dying languages as ‘monostylistic’, a characterization questioned here. Variationist methodology is adopted in a context of gradual language death.
Kasstan, J.
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« Communauté linguistique » : renoncer ou problématiser ?
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2017 The notion of ‘speech community’ is a key concept in sociolinguistics. It refers both to a specific social space that is assumed also to be a space of linguistic structuring and to the sociolinguist’s questions on how language practices can be analysed ...
Aude Bretegnier
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The Quest for Signals in Noise: Leveraging Experiential Variation to Identify Bilingual Phenotypes
Languages, 2021 Increasing evidence suggests that bilingualism does not, in itself, result in a particular pattern of response, revealing instead a complex and multidimensional construct that is shaped by evolutionary and ecological sources of variability.
Anne L. Beatty-Martínez +1 more
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La Bretagne Linguistique, 2017 Dialectometry is a method of comparing data from different varieties of a language and assessing the degree of similarity by calculating the distance between them.
Tanguy Solliec
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Variation in R-Pronouns in Moroccan and Turkish Ethnolectal Dutch and What It Tells Us
Languages, 2022 R-pronouns are R-words which feature as pronouns in prepositional phrases (among other things). They are common in Dutch and German (e.g., D. daarmee, G. damit, lit. ‘therewith’, ‘with that’, D. erna, G. danach, lit. ‘hereafter’, ‘after this’).
Frans Hinskens
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Patterns of variation in subject-indexing prefixes in Vatlongos, Southeast Ambrym [PDF]
, 2022 This is the accepted version of the following article: Ridge, E., (2022). "Patterns of variation in subject-indexing prefixes in Vatlongos, Southeast Ambrym." Asia-Pacific Language Variation 8(1): 72-105, which has been published in final form at https://
Ridge E
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