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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Using Integrative Extended Reading: An Innovative Approach to Improve Reading Engagement Among Multilingual Learners of English [PDF]
Adil Bentahar
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in
Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Quantifying the structure and dynamics of species interactions in ecological communities is fundamental to studying ecology and evolution. While there are numerous approaches to analysing ecological networks, there is not yet an approach that can (1) quantify dissimilarity in the global structure of ecological networks that range from ...
Kai M. Hung +4 more
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Motivating Discourse-Based English Structure Learning Material: Multilingual Indonesian EFL Students' Experiences [PDF]
Nuri Emmiyati, Naurah Jinan
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Demographic Factors Influencing Eligibility for EMA in South Australia
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Early medical abortion (EMA) can be performed by administration of mifepristone and misoprostol in an outpatient setting prior to 63 days gestation in Australia. While this is a flexible, efficacious and safe option for abortion, it requires early identification of pregnancy and efficient access to a clinical service. Outpatient EMA
Laura Slade +3 more
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The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for Citizenship
, 2019 Nancy Hawker
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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
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