Results 21 to 30 of about 2,784 (139)
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Language use in mountainous areas often exhibits special social dynamics. This contribution sketches some of the most salient patterns of language use in upland Southeast Asia ,the greater Himalayas, the Caucasus, the Central Andes, the New Guinea highlands, and touches upon the Alps and some highland areas of Africa and North America ...
Matthias Urban
wiley +1 more source
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay’s concept of mixed languages
Linguistica, 1978 This paper addresses the problem of defining the notion of mixture in languages and dialects as used by Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845 - 1929). Focussing on the types of interference which were formulated on the basis of observations of the dialects of
Rado L. Lencek
doaj +1 more source
In search of the nation in Fiume: Irredentism, cultural nationalism, borderlands
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 660-676, July 2020., 2020 Abstract Irredentism is a crucial, yet understudied phenomenon of nationalism. Most scholars emphasise how irredentist thinking and practices function as a geopolitical instrument for inter‐state formation, resulting in radical nationalism. This article sheds light instead on the cultural preoccupations underlying irredentist discourses. It focusses on
Milou van Hout
wiley +1 more source
Learning language regimes: Children's representations of minority language education
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 165-184, April 2020., 2020 Abstract Minority language education initiatives often aim to resist dominant language regimes and to raise the social status of migrant or autochthonous minorities. We consider how participating children experience these alternative language regimes by analysing drawings made by children in two minority education settings—a Slovene‐German bilingual ...
Judith Purkarthofer, Haley De Korne
wiley +1 more source
,,Exploration of dialectal Slovene: existing and necessary [PDF]
Slavia Centralis, 2018 Prispevek predstavlja in komentira rezultate empirične raziskave (spletna anketa), nastale v okviru CRP Jezikovna politika republike Slovenije in potrebe uporabnikov, in le v tistem delu, ki daje uvid v to, koliko uporabniki poznajo in rabijo priročnike o narečni slovenščini ter kaj potrebujejo in čemu dajejo prednost. Pridani so še rezultati krajše in
openaire +2 more sources
A Circum-Pannonian Word-Prosodic Parallel: Paroxytonic Accent in the South-West Bohemian Dialect
Jezikoslovni zapiski, 2015 Slavists generally think of the Czecho-Slovak dialect area as having a wordprosody configuration of fixed word-initial stress with contrastive length possible in any syllable.
Zbyněk Holub
doaj +1 more source
Preliminary Report on Dialect Attitudes in Austrian and Slovene Carinthia [PDF]
Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2015 This paper is a preliminary analysis of an internet-based questionnaire on dialect attitudes and perceptions conducted in Slovene-speaking areas in Austrian and Slovene Carinthia. The survey largely confirmed expectations. Large majorities on both sides of the border claimed to use and value the local dialect.
openaire +4 more sources
Using the ToBI transcription to record the intonation of Slovene
Linguistica, 2012 The paper presents ToBI, a transcription method for prosodic annotation. ToBI is an acronym for Tones and Breaks Indices which first denoted an intonation system developed in the 1990s for annotating intonation and prosody in the database of spoken ...
Jana Volk
doaj +1 more source
Balto-Slavic accentuation revisited [PDF]
, 2010 There is every reason to welcome the revised edition (2009) of Thomas Olander’s dissertation (2006), which I have criticized elsewhere (2006). The book is very well written and the author has a broad command of the scholarly literature.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
core +1 more source
In search of isoglosses: continuous and discrete language embeddings in Slavic historical phonology [PDF]
, 2020 This paper investigates the ability of neural network architectures to effectively learn diachronic phonological generalizations in a multilingual setting.
Cathcart, Chundra A., Wandl, Florian
core +1 more source