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A Kernel Independence Test for Geographical Language Variation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Conference on Computational Logic, 2016
Quantifying the degree of spatial dependence for linguistic variables is a key task for analyzing dialectal variation. However, existing approaches have important drawbacks.
Dong Nguyen, Jacob Eisenstein
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Psycholinguistic Evidence for Incipient Language Change in Mexican Spanish: The Extension of Differential Object Marking

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
Spanish marks animate and specific direct objects overtly with the preposition a, an instance of Differential Object Marking (DOM). However, in some varieties of Spanish, DOM is advancing to inanimate objects.
Begoña Arechabaleta Regulez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Language growth in very young siblings at risk for autism spectrum disorder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show substantial variability in their language development. Language problems are highly prevalent in these children.
Beyers, Wim   +7 more
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Overcoming Language Variation in Sentiment Analysis with Social Attention [PDF]

open access: yesTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015
Variation in language is ubiquitous, particularly in newer forms of writing such as social media. Fortunately, variation is not random; it is often linked to social properties of the author.
Yi Yang, Jacob Eisenstein
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Selecting ELL Textbooks: A Content Analysis of Language-Teaching Models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Many middle school teachers lack adequate criteria to critically select materials that represent a variety of L2 teaching models. This study analyzes the illustrated and written content of 33 ELL textbooks to determine the range of L2 teaching models ...
LaBelle, Jeffrey
core   +2 more sources

Aspects of variations in Byzantine Greek Documents of the patriarchal chancellery of Constantinople (14th c.)

open access: yesOpen 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
doaj   +1 more source

Relativized temporal phrases: Language variation and change in contemporary Portuguese

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Address forms in Tatar spoken in Finland and Estonia

open access: yesOpen 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
doaj   +1 more source

The role of INFL in code-switching: a study of a Papiamento heritage community in the Netherlands

open access: yesFrontiers in Language Sciences
IntroductionIn 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
doaj   +1 more source

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