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Colloquial stylization in French‑Canadian minority theatre: The case of Georges Bugnet’s La Défaite and its translation into Polish Recourse to „oralité” in written texts, which is specific to the Francophone communities in Canada, poses a challenge ...
Małgorzata Czubińska
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In Canada, official French-English bilingualism and the long-standing presence of Indigenous and immigrant languages has shaped how these languages and their varieties are learned, taught, and used in educational contexts.
Meike Wernicke
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Sometimes a change of a language border is linked to a change in language status of a group of diatopic varieties. The assessment of language status relates, among other things, to the existence of a common norm (standard variety) and the language ...
Rahel Beyer
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Natural language processing for similar languages, varieties, and dialects: A survey [PDF]
There has been a lot of recent interest in the natural language processing (NLP) community in the computational processing of language varieties and dialects, with the aim to improve the performance of applications such as machine translation, speech ...
Nakov, Preslav +2 more
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Indefinites in Romance and beyond
Due to their flexibility in interpretation, the use of indefinites and other quantificational expressions is highly variable and subject to dynamic processes of language change.The present volume addresses fundamental linguistic questions about language
Mensching, Guido +10 more
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Greece’s labyrinth of language: A study in the early modern discovery of dialect diversity
Fascinated with the heritage of ancient Greece, early modern intellectuals cultivated a deep interest in its language, the primary gateway to this long-lost culture, rehabilitated during the Renaissance.
Van Rooy, Raf
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Social and structural aspects of language contact and change
This book brings together papers that discuss social and structural aspects of language contact and language change. Several papers look at the relevance of historical documents to determine the linguistic nature of early contact varieties, while others ...
Schumacher, Jennifer +15 more
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Phonological and morphological features of Boyash language varieties in Eastern Slovakia
The heterogeneous group of Boyash (or Bayash, Rudari) are small communities speaking different highly endangered conservative subvarieties of the Romanian language and dispersed throughout Central and Southeastern Europe.
Mátyás ROSENBERG
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The Discursive Strategies in the Spoken Narratives of Multilingual Sepitori and Sesotho Speakers
In linguistically diverse and multilingual South African communities, it is common to use non-standard language varieties (NSLVs), often called mixed languages, as lingua franca. These NSLVs are primarily spoken in black townships throughout South Africa.
Ramona Kunene Nicolas, Nonhlanhla Ntuli
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Brief Description of German and Other Germanic Language Varieties on the Territory of Wallonia
Introduction. The article considers the official and regional Germanic language varieties of Wallonia. As researchers mainly focus on the confrontation of the French and Dutch parts of Belgium when analyzing sociolinguistic processes in the country ...
E. S. Alekseenko, L. A. Ulianitckaia
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