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(Morpho)syntactic Variation in Agreement: Specificational Copular Clauses Across Germanic

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
In this paper we bring together the results of our research into agreement in copular clauses in four different Germanic languages—Dutch, German, Faroese, and Icelandic—in order to provide an overview of the results.
Jutta M. Hartmann, Caroline Heycock
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Variation isn't that hard: Morphosyntactic choice does not predict production difficulty.

PLoS ONE, 2021
The following paper explores the link between production difficulty and grammatical variability. Using a sub-sample of the Switchboard Corpus of American English (285 transcripts, 34 speakers), this paper shows that the presence of variable contexts does
Matt Hunt Gardner, Eva Uffing, Nicholas Van Vaeck, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi   +3 more
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Variability in speaker expectations of morphosyntactic mutation in Welsh

Glossa, 2022
Like all modern Celtic languages Welsh exhibits initial consonant mutation with both lexical and morphosyntactic triggers. Owing to the complexity of the system and the sociolinguistic situation of Welsh, change and variation in the system seems ...
Gareth Roberts, Yosiane White
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Modelling morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes from a register perspective

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2017
This paper addresses Miller’s (2000) and Brown and Miller’s (2017) hypothesis that the adverbs just, (n)ever and yet are becoming markers of perfect meaning in spoken English, and this at the expense of weakening semantically and reducing the use of the
Elena Seoane
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The alternation between exterior locative cases and postpositions in Estonian web texts

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021
. A probabilistic grammar approach to language assumes that grammatical knowledge has a probabilistic component and that this probabilistic knowledge of language is derived from language experience. It is assumed that the extent and nature of grammatical
Jane Klavan
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Investigating Language Variation and Change in Portuguese

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This Issue focuses on morphosyntactic variation and change in Portuguese [...]
Patrícia Amaral
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The Holistic Advantage: Unified Quantitative Modeling for Less-Biased, In-Depth Insights into (Socio)Linguistic Variation

Languages
What happens when recognized and diverse conditioning factors of linguistic variation are omitted from analysis and/or are not analyzed under a single analytical procedure? This paper explores the consequences of such a choice on data interpretation and,
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
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A Web Corpus Analysis of the Italian Grazie Di/Per Alternation

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The prepositional variation of grazie di/per + complement ‘thanks for X’ is often acknowledged in Italian grammars but has not yet been adequately examined.
Mark Hoff
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An interview with Naomi L. Shin

Isogloss, 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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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
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