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Variation linguistics and SLA

Second Language Research, 1993
Sociolinguistics (here called variationist linguistics) has been misunderstood and misrepresented in second language acquistion (SLA) research. In spite of that, several productive studies (many of which use the VARBRUL statistical program) have made significant contributions to our understandings of variation in SLA data, contributions which touch on
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Protolanguage, Recursion and Linguistic Variation

2005
Recent discussion on the evolution and genesis of language is strongly conditioned by particular interpretation and mutual relevance of three basic notions: i) recursion, ultimately reduced to merge in the minimalist frameword, which should be properly developed and discussed within linguistic theory; ii) protolanguage, which is proper of the studies ...
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Urabanization and linguistic variations

Language Sciences, 1979
Abstract It is in the last twenty years or so that people in Japan have come to live in multi-story apartment houses. The speech of the residents of such apartments is richer in variety than that of people who live in single-family houses. Apartment dwellers have more detailed distinctions in the use of honorifics, which represent fine distinctions ...
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Is Linguistic Variation Entirely Linguistic? *

2021
Samuel D. Epstein   +2 more
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Cross-linguistic Variation

2022
Lena Baunaz, Genoveva Puskás
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Jun J Mao,, Msce   +2 more
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Linguistic variation and change

2019
Abstract This chapter offers a preliminary examination of linguistic variation and change from the normative perspective. Both key aspects of normativity, correctness and rationality, are discussed in the context of theoretical discussion and demonstrated by concrete examples drawn from the existing literature on normativity, sociolinguistics and ...
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Grammaticalization and linguistic Variation

2012
AbstractThis article examines the similarities and differences between grammaticalisation theory and variation theory (VT). It describes the variationist take on grammaticalisation and outlines some of the ways in which VT can contribute to grammaticalisation studies.
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Dimensions of Linguistic Variation

Abstract This book investigates evidence for the myriad factors which influence language variation and change, and considers how to best account for these factors in data collection and metadata coding. Given linguists’ increasing ability to preserve and share data, questions arise around the possibility of comparing data from different ...
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Linguistic Variation and Cost

1995
Abstract These last two chapters aim to integrate the central factors motivating synchronic variation and eventually diachronic change: surface opacity interacting with propensities towards Consistency, Transparency and Saliency. These are checked by Maturation, by the conservative force of Literacy, and by the evaluation measure of ...
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