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Perceptual Dialectology of the Arab World: A Principal Analysis
, 2014 This study discusses perceptions of variation across dialects of Arabic in the Arab world as revealed through a perceptual dialectology map task. On a map of the Arab world, female undergraduate students at Qatar University provided information about bound- aries where people speak di erently and labels for those boundaries.
Theodoropoulou, Irene, Tyler, Joseph
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Perceptual Dialectology of Egypt. A View from the Berber-Speaking Periphery [PDF]
, 2019 Perceptual dialectology is a sub-branch of folk linguistics first systematized by Dennis Preston in the 1980s (e.g. Preston 1989, 1999). Through the technique of mental mapping, borrowed from cultural geography, perceptual dialectologists seek to discover the perceived distribution of speeches, populations, and prevailing ideologies.
Serreli, Valentina, Valentina Serreli
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The origin of semilingualism: Nils‐Erik Hansegård and the cult of the mother tongue
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 506-525, November 2023., 2023 Abstract ‘Semilingualism’ is one of the most questionable theories produced in the language sciences. Yet, little is known about its origins. We present a critical account of the history of semilingualism, tracing its roots in the work of Nils Erik Hansegård, (1918–2002), inaugural chair of Sámi at Umeå University (1975–1979), who developed a theory of
David Karlander, Linus Salö
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Varieties of ‘standard accents’ among teachers in contemporary Britain
World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 507-522, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article investigates accent variation within the UK, applied to the professional context of teaching. The purpose is two‐fold: first, to discuss a variety of accents in contemporary Britain, demonstrating how accents can be categorised based on the degree to which they mark the speaker's local origins.
Alex Baratta
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T‐tapping in Standard Southern British English: An ‘elite’ sociolinguistic variant?
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 287-298, April 2022., 2022 Abstract Social class is one of the key axes of sociolinguistic variation, but the speech of those at the top of the class spectrum—the elite—is rarely studied. While T‐glottalling has spread widely across British English accents, a competing variant—T‐tapping—has attracted little scholarly attention in the United Kingdom. This article presents a study
Roy Alderton
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 1-31, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper addresses a series of complex and unresolved issues in the historical phonology of West Iranian languages, (Persian, Kurdish, Balochi, and other languages), which display a high degree of irregular, non‐Lautgesetzlich behaviour.
Chundra A. Cathcart
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Social class across borders: Transnational elites in British ideological space
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 25, Issue 5, Page 682-702, November 2021., 2021 Abstract Studies of generational dialect change in diaspora communities have tended to find that local forces outweigh transnational ones: parent varieties are rejected as too saliently foreign, and transnational effects fade in later generations. Examining the speech of second‐generation British Asians, I document this initial shift away from the low ...
Devyani Sharma
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Social factors in accent recognition: a large-scale study in perceptual dialectology [PDF]
, 2023 This perceptual-dialectology study investigates how listener-related social factors impact the geographical recognition of regional accents. In contrast to much prior research on English, our focus is on Dutch, which lends itself well to our study ...
Pinget, Anne-France, Voeten, Cesko
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The Extraordinary Ordinary: Re‐engineering Multilingualism as a Natural Category
Language Learning, Volume 71, Issue S1, Page 80-120, March 2021., 2021 Abstract This article addresses different ways scholars conceptualize the multilingual repertoire. Formal and functional approaches investigate crosslinguistic influence across clearly demarcated languages, while dynamic systems theory and translanguaging approaches question countability and boundedness of languages. Problems with both perspectives are
Raphael Berthele
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Is Creaky Voice a Valley Girl Feature? Stancetaking & Evolution of a Linguistic Stereotype
Anglophonia, 2021 The ‘Valley Girl’ stereotype came to be known in 1982 thanks to Frank & Moon Zappa’s eponymous hit song, which associated a wide variety of linguistic markers with the persona of a white, privileged, vapid, female adolescent. This ideological association
Pierre Habasque
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