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Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch, Hanna Bruns, Martin Schweinberger   +2 more
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Methodological Advancements in Dialect Identification Tasks: Perception, Representation and Social Meaning in South East England

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 383-395, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents a dialect identification task in which 191 listeners drew on a digital map around the area(s) they thought 99 speakers were from and provided evaluative responses based on speech excerpts. This study is the first to demonstrate the importance of uniting five strands of investigation in dialect identification tasks: (1 ...
Amanda Cole
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Dialectology at Vilnius University. [PDF]

, 2023
The paper aims to review the history of dialectology at Vilnius University since the establishment of the Department of the Lithuanian Language in 1940. To achieve this, we have set the following objectives: 1) to present the teaching of dialectology, 2)
Vytautas Kardelis, Judžentytė-Šinkunienė, Gintarė, Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, Gintarė,, Kardelis, Vytautas, Kardelis, Vytautas,, Gintarė Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė   +5 more
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Is It a Southern Thing? Linguistic Stereotyping in Earwitnesses’ Descriptions of Italian Accents

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 411-425, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how linguistic stereotypes affect hearer perceptions of different speakers’ accents focusing on two Italian regional varieties: one from the South and one from the North. Three studies explored the effects of selective attention, confirmation bias, and cultural context.
Clara Loiacono, Luuk Lagerwerf
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Rappresentare le spazialità complesse. L’esperienza dell’ALS (Atlante linguistico della Sicilia)

Géolinguistique, 2016
In this paper, we will deal with quantitative and qualitative data collected throughout the last quarter of the 20th century in Sicily. We will focus on the mapping of the latest sociolinguistic results obtained by means of an ample investigation, and ...
Vincenzo Pinello
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The perception and value of the new local language variety: the case of the Samogitians of periphery

Lietuvių Kalba, 2020
Dialects change, transform, and new ones – transitional, intermediate varieties between dialect(s) and standard language – emerge due to various extralinguistic factors (see Lenz 2010, 296).
Monika Triaušytė
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Implicit and Explicit Language Attitudes and Language Attitude Change

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Knowledge of public attitudes towards language‐based diversity can help uncover wider societal prejudices. Nonetheless, sociolinguists are increasingly aware of the limitations of using traditional explicit self‐report measures to gauge attitudes towards linguistic variation.
Robert M. McKenzie
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Do You Speak Dialect? Yes!

Lietuvių Kalba
This article constitutes a continuation of the publication ‘Measuring Pronunciation: A Discursive Research Model’ (Kardelis, 2023).The primary objective of the paper was to apply the discourse model of dialectality measurement and to assess its ...
Vytautas Kardelis, Gabriela Forgeron
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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A contribution to perceptual dialectology of Poland : Szczecin

, 2018
The paper presents the results of a questionnaire in perceptual dialectology conducted in 2017 among the students of the University of Szczecin. To the best of my knowledge, it is one of the very few works discussing the laymen’s perception of dialectal ...
Stachowski, Kamil, Kamil Stachowski
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