Good and Bad English: How to Deal with Language Variation and Change in Language Learning [PDF]
, 2015 Language practitioners often seem language phenomena as degeneration or decay. This is something misleading and need to be taken seriously into consideration.
Oktavianti, Ikmi Nur
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Contrasting Spaces in Plautdietsch: Language Variation and Change
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2021 In this article, I explore linguistic variation in Plautdietsch through the lens of social variation and the resulting redistribution of linguistic forms across the community.
Roslyn Burns
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Segmental and suprasegmental change in North West Yorkshire – a new case of supralocalisation ?
Corela, 2018 A number of phonetic and phonological changes have lately been observed in most geographical varieties of British English (e.g. Trudgill 1986 ; Foulkes & Docherty 1999 ; Britain 2002b ; Kerswill 2003 ; Stuart-Smith et al. 2004, 2007).
Stephan Wilhelm
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Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023 There are some linguistic forms that may be known to both speakers and linguists, but that occur naturally with such low frequency that traditional sociolinguistic methods do not allow for study.
Taylor Jones
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Identifying agents of change: Simplification of possessive marking in Abui-Malay bilinguals
Glossa, 2019 This paper investigates variation in possessive marking in Abui, a language spoken in a minority bilingual community in eastern Indonesia. Abui youngsters grow up acquiring both Abui (Papuan) and Alor Malay (Austronesian), but only become active speakers
Francesca Moro +2 more
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Towards a socio-historical analysis of Ancient Greek? Some problems and prospects [PDF]
, 2017 Recent findings in sociolinguistics have greatly enhanced our understanding of the mechanisms of linguistic variation and change. In this paper, I discuss the possibility of applying a historical sociolinguistic approach to a corpus language such as ...
Bentein, Klaas
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Reduction of Survey Sites in Dialectology: A New Methodology Based on Clustering
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021 Many language change studies aim for a partial revisitation, i.e., selecting survey sites from previous dialect studies. The central issue of survey site reduction, however, has often been addressed only qualitatively.
Péter Jeszenszky +2 more
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Purism, Variation, Change and ‘Authenticity’: Ideological Challenges to Language Revitalisation [PDF]
, 2017 This paper is based on recent research into the small, highly endangered language Giernesiei 1 (Guernsey, Channel Islands). 2 Language documentation has found unexpectedly rich variation and change in Giernesiei usage, not all of which can be accounted ...
Bruce +19 more
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PRESENTATION of SPECIAL ISSUE: Variation and Change in Language Norms in Languages
Languages, 2022 This Special Issue (SI) sheds light on the relationship between geographical, sociocultural, historical, functional, or stylistic variation and language norms, understanding by these both objective implicit social habits and prescriptive explicit ...
Carla Amorós-Negre, Joan Costa-Carreras
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Formal Variation and Language Change in Catalan Quantifiers: The Role of Pragmatics
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2020 This article studies the formal variation of the masculine singular forms of the quantifiers u/un ‘one’, algú/algun ‘someone, some’, ningú/ningun ‘no-one, anyone, not one, any, none’ and cada u/cada un ‘everyone, each one’ in contemporary Catalan.
Joan-Rafael Ramos
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