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An interview with Naomi L. Shin

open access: yesIsogloss, 2020
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

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
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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Towards a socio-historical analysis of Ancient Greek? Some problems and prospects [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Review: Friginal Eric & Hardy, Jack A. (2014). Corpus-based sociolinguistics: A guide for students. New York and London: Routledge

open access: yesEuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2015
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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Contrasting Spaces in Plautdietsch: Language Variation and Change

open access: yesThe 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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Purism, Variation, Change and ‘Authenticity’: Ideological Challenges to Language Revitalisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Segmental and suprasegmental change in North West Yorkshire – a new case of supralocalisation ?

open access: yesCorela, 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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PRESENTATION of SPECIAL ISSUE: Variation and Change in Language Norms in Languages

open access: yesLanguages, 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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African American English intensifier dennamug: Using twitter to investigate syntactic change in low-frequency forms

open access: yesFrontiers 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

open access: yesGlossa, 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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