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Language, creoles, varieties: From emergence to transmission

, 2023
This book offers a selection of papers dealing with second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and creole linguistics inspired by the scientific legacy of Mauritian-born scholar Georges Daniel Véronique (Port-Louis, 1948). An important part of the book is devoted to the description of learner varieties with a focus on sociolinguistic ...
Granget, Cyrille, Repiso, Isabel, Fon Sing, Guillaume   +2 more
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New research on circum-Caribbean creoles and language contact

This volume features research papers dealing with creolized and partially restructured language varieties in the wider Caribbean region. Initially conceived of as a conference volume drawing on papers presented at the 2017 Summer conference of the ...
Raynor, Eliot, Delgado, Sally J., Bartens, Angela; University of Turku, University of Helsinki, Friis Bøegh, Kristoffer; Utrecht University, Ulmer, Carolin, Maciel Ziober, Fernanda, Slomanson, Peter; Tampere University, Osei-Tutu, Kwaku Owusu Afriyie, De Lisser, Tamirand Nnena   +8 more
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Varieties of Data Languages

CoRR, 2019
We establish an Eilenberg-type correspondence for data languages, i.e. languages over an infinite alphabet. More precisely, we prove that there is a bijective correspondence between varieties of languages recognized by orbit-finite nominal monoids and pseudovarieties of such monoids. This is the first result of this kind for data languages.
Henning Urbat, Stefan Milius
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German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics

, 2021
It is well-known that contact between speakers of different languages or varieties leads to dynamics in many respects. From a grammatical perspective, especially contact between closely related languages/varieties fosters contact-induced innovations. The
Nove, Chaya R., Stuhl, Britta, Langer, Nils, Gregersen, Johanna, Simon, Horst J., Zimmer, Christian, Radke, Henning, Rocker, Maike H., Bracke, Yannic, Höder, Steffen   +9 more
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Semi-automating the Reading Programme for a Historical Dictionary Project

Lexikos, 2018
This paper describes the resources and software procedures used or developed in a major enabling step towards the revision of the scholarly reference work A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles (DSAE, Silva et al.
Tim van Niekerk, Johannes Schäfer, Ulrich Heid   +2 more
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Commutative Positive Varieties of Languages

Acta Cybernetica, 2017
We study the commutative positive varieties of languages closed under various operations: shuffle, renaming and product over one-letter alphabets.
Jorge Almeida 0001, Zoltán Ésik, Jean-Éric Pin   +2 more
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User Responses to Linguistic Diversity in Instagram based on the Language Subordination Model Process [PDF]

Issues in Language Teaching
The present study aims to investigate users’ responses to linguistic diversity on Persian-language social media, particularly Instagram, based on Lippi-Green’s theoretical framework of language subordination. The study employs a mixed-methods design.
Adel Mohammadi, Hiwa Weisi
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How can curriculum history benefit from sociolinguistics? The importance of language controversy in the making of citizens in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe

Cogent Education, 2016
Based on small case-study illustrations from a variety of European countries, this study aims to explore methodological aspects of the study of curriculum history by expanding its traditional research scope. In so doing, it is argued that sociolinguistic
Matias Gardin
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Mentawai Language Variations in the Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra Province

Arbitrer, 2023
The language aspect in cultural preservation focuses more on the arts and social systems. In fact, language as a connecting medium for arts and social systems also needs to be preserved.
Satwiko Budiono, Rita Novita, Tengku Syarfina   +2 more
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Případy koexistence dvou variant romštiny na stejném území na Slovensku [PDF]

Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2018
In this article I want to present some observations on the parallel existence of two varieties of Romani in the same territory, even in the same village. I worked with Gypsies in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1970.
Jiří Lípa
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