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Lexical variation and change in british sign language.
This paper presents results from a corpus-based study investigating lexical variation in BSL. An earlier study investigating variation in BSL numeral signs found that younger signers were using a decreasing variety of regionally distinct variants ...
Rose Stamp +5 more
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Variation in Tupi languages: Genealogy, language change, and typology [PDF]
At least 40 spoken languages form the large tupi family in its subfamilies tupi-Guarani, Mawe, Aweti, Arikem, Juruna, Monde, tupari, Munduruku, ramarama and Purubora, providing a wealth of data for linguistic studies about variation – variation explained by genetic relations (common origin, ultimately from the presumed language ‘proto-tupi’) or by ...
Wolf Dietrich, Sebastian Drude
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Patterns and Developments in the Marking of Diminutives in Bantu [PDF]
This paper presents an overview of diminutives in the Bantu language family, with an emphasis on the role of the noun class system in diminutive formation.
Hannah Gibson +2 more
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“I Speak My Language My Way!”—Young People’s Kunwok
Bininj Kunwok is a Gunwinyguan language (a non-Pama-Nyungan) spoken in west Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park, NT, Australia. With around 2500 speakers and children learning it as a first language, Kunwok is one of the strongest Indigenous languages ...
Alexandra Marley
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Relativized temporal phrases: Language variation and change in contemporary Portuguese
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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The use of dual number among the youth in Ohcejohka municipality
In this article, I examine how much the use of dual number varies in the colloquial language of young people from Ohcejohka. For the study, I interviewed six young people aged 15–25.
Sierge Rasmus
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Registerial Adaptation vs. Innovation Across Situational Contexts: 18th Century Women in Transition
Endeavors to computationally model language variation and change are ever increasing. While analyses of recent diachronic trends are frequently conducted, long-term trends accounting for sociolinguistic variation are less well-studied.
Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb +2 more
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An interview with Naomi L. Shin
Naomi L. Shin is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Her primary interests include child language acquisition, bilingualism, language contact, and sociolinguistics.
Naomi Shin
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Heritage Tagalog Phonology and a Variationist Framework of Language Contact
Heritage language variation and change provides an opportunity to examine the interplay of contact-induced and language-internal effects while extending the variationist framework beyond monolingual speakers and majority languages.
Pocholo Umbal, Naomi Nagy
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Thisreview highlights the content of Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics: A Guide for Students by Eric Friginal and Jack A. Hardy, which maps out a clear and systematic path for corpus applications in sociolinguistics.
Pierfranca Forchini
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