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When you have too many features: Auxiliaries, agreement and clitics in Italian varieties [PDF]
Syntactic variation can be ascribed to a range of factors. The Borer-Chomsky conjecture, as Mark Baker (2008) refers to it, states for instance that all parameters of variation are attributable to differences in the features of particular items (e.g ...
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Esquisse de la situation linguistique actuelle de Fribourg-en-Brisgau (Allemagne)
This paper will discuss Le Dû and Le Berre's reading of the sociolinguistic situation in Western-Brittany, which is not really applicable to the situation in Freiburg.
Hildegard L.C. Tristram +1 more
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Demonstrative-reinforcer constructions and the syntactic role of deictic features [PDF]
In this paper I take Romance demonstrative-reinforcer constructions as a way to test whether the deictic features encoded by demonstrative and locative forms are active in the syntax.
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Desde que Hugo Schuchardt defendiera que toda lengua es un continuum en variación (Abad 1993: 76), como objeto de estudio la variación lingüística ha sido abordada desde múltiples enfoques científicos que se han centrado en la variación tanto como la ...
Olga Ivanova
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Regional variation in the pronunciation of /s/ in the Dutch language area [PDF]
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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The sociophonology and sociophonetics of Scottish Standard English (r)
This paper inspects the variability of (r) in non-linking coda positions (e.g. in the words car, far, and art) in Scottish Standard English (SSE), accepting the three variants [ɾ], [ɹ], and Ø.
Ole Schützler, Schützler, Ole
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Language and Imagination: Evolutionary explorations [PDF]
This article provides a functional analysis of the conditions for language to emerge, and analyzes its rolein imagination. It starts with some initial reflections on imagination and its evolutionary beginnings in relation to the role of working memory ...
Emeriti TLC +2 more
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Register in Czech: Designing an MDA-based experimental study
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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« Communauté linguistique » : renoncer ou problématiser ?
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
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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