Quantitative approaches to linguistic variation in IRC : implications for qualitative research [PDF]
Qualitative analysis of code choice, code switching, and language style in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) can shed light on functional-pragmatic aspects of the use of different linguistic varieties.
Siebenhaar, Beat
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Bilingual Speech and Language Ecology in Greek Thrace: Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish [PDF]
International audienceThis paper examines the influence of language ecology (Mufwene 2001, 2005) on bilingual speech. It is based on first hand data from two undocumented varieties of Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish in Greek Thrace, in both ...
Adamou, Evangelia
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The Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian Adnominal Possessive Dative at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface [PDF]
In Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, the adnominal possessive dative (APD) construction is used alongside the nominal adjectival construction to express possession.
Pennington, James Joshua
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Applying A Normalized Compression Metric To The Measurement Of Dialect Distance [PDF]
The paper discusses the application of a similarity metric based on compression to the measurement of the distance among Bulgarian dia- lects. The similarity metric is de ned on the basis of the notion of Kolmo- gorov complexity of a le (or binary ...
Osenova, Petya, Simov, Kiril
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Utjecaj stranih jezika na urbani osječki govor [PDF]
Given the specific geographical location of Osijek, with its proximity to as many as three national borders, and considering its historical heritage, i.e. the infl uence of foreign languages due to socio– political circumstances, viz.
Domorad, Bernardica +2 more
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Multilingualism and structural borrowing in Arbanasi Albanian [PDF]
In this paper we present a brief overview of the history of linguistic contacts of Arbanasi Albanian, a Gheg Albanian dialect spoken in Croatia, with Croatian and Italian. Then we discuss a number of contact-induced changes in that language. We show that
Gnjatović, Tena +3 more
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Pilipenko, Gleb. The Language and Ethno-Cultural Situation of the Vojvodina Hungarians: A Perspective from ’Inside’ and ’Outside’ [PDF]
Review of the book by Pilipenko, Gleb The Language and Ethno-cultural Situation of the Vojvodina Hungarians: A Perspective from "Inside" and "Outside" [Пилипенко Г. Языковая и этнокультурная ситуация воеводинских венгров.
Mandić, Marija
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The lifespan development of cognate guessing skills in an unknown related language [PDF]
This study investigates the lifespan development of the ability to correctly guess the meaning of foreign-language words with known translation-equivalent cognates.
Berthele, Raphael, Vanhove, Jan
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Varieties of English world-wide : where we stand [PDF]
The paper summarizes the state of scholarly research in one of the most recent and most stimulating branches of sociolinguistics. Criteria which help to show whether a variety (or an utterance) is English are discussed in detail before the ...
Görlach, Manfred
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Др Неле Карајлић у оквиру „новог примитивизма” [PDF]
The “New Primitives” is an alternative, and later, a cultural movement that emerged in Sarajevo in the late 1970s and early 1980s; the movement officially ceased to exist in 1987.
Vučković, Borislava
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