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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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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, Carina Steiner, Adrian Leemann   +2 more
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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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Tradition et changement phonétique dans une variété de contact : l’anglais de Lewis et Harris

Corela, 2018
From a grammatical and lexical point of view, the variety of English spoken in the Outer Hebrides is akin to Standard Scottish English (SSE). From a phonetic and phonological point of view, however, it is absolutely distinctive, mainly because of the ...
Stephan Wilhelm
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Nuovi fenomeni linguistici in Svezia. Un percorso tra le definizioni degli stili multilingui [New linguistic phenomena in Sweden. A path through the definitions of multilingual styles]

Open Journal of Humanities, 2019
Massive immigration waves to Sweden generated noticeable political, social and linguistic changes during the last forty years. Multilingual styles are a result of this incoming mobility.
Luca Gendolavigna
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Structural Change in Relative Clauses and the Autonomy of Heritage Grammars

Languages, 2022
This paper addresses the question of structural change in relative clauses in heritage speakers of two varieties of Venetan, a northern Italo-Romance language.
Alberto Frasson
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Using the Variationist Comparative Method to Examine the Role of Language Contact in Synthetic and Periphrastic Verbs in Spanish

, 2016
Language contact and linguistic change are thought to go hand in hand (e.g. Silva-Corvalán 1994), however there are methodological obstacles, such as collecting data at different points in time or the availability of monolingual data for comparison, that
Dumont, Jenny, Vegara Wilson, Damián
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A Measure for Linguistic Coherence in Spatial Language Variation

Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, 2023
Based on historical dialect data we introduce a local measure of linguistic coherence in spatial language variation aiming at the identification of regions which are particularly sensitive to language variation and change.
Alfred Lameli, André Schönberg
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Towards a continuous modeling of natural language domains

, 2016
Humans continuously adapt their style and language to a variety of domains. However, a reliable definition of `domain' has eluded researchers thus far. Additionally, the notion of discrete domains stands in contrast to the multiplicity of heterogeneous ...
Breslin, John G., Ghaffari, Parsa, Ruder, Sebastian   +2 more
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Variation in Bantu copula constructions [PDF]

, 2019
This chapter provides an overview of variation in Bantu non-verbal predication and copula constructions. These constructions exhibit a wide range of fine-grained micro-variation against a backdrop of broad typological similarity across the Bantu family ...
Gibson, Hannah, Guérois, Rozenn, Marten, Lutz   +2 more
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