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Lexical variation and change in british sign language.
PLoS ONE, 2014 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]
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2015 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]
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2017 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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Language and CognitionLanguages vary in the way they encode motion. Following Talmy, languages can be divided into verb-framed (VF, henceforth) or satellite-framed (SF, henceforth), based on how they encode path of motion.
Anna Michelotti +2 more
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Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan
, 2021 Karen V. Beaman, Isabelle Buchstaller
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“I Speak My Language My Way!”—Young People’s Kunwok
Languages, 2021 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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Third Factors in Language Variation and Change
, 2021 In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician explores the impact of phenomena known as 'third factors' on syntactic change. Generative syntax has in recent times incorporated third factors – factors not specific to the language ...
Elly Van Gelderen
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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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The use of dual number among the youth in Ohcejohka municipality
Sámi dieđalaš áigečála, 2022 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
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021 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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