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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite evidence that gender‐inclusive language represents genders more equally than generic masculines, it still faces resistance, possibly due to its perceived association with left‐wing politics. This study explores the social meaning of gender‐inclusive language compared with generic masculines in French and German, using four gender ...
Benjamin Storme +3 more
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Reflections on Moral Disagreement, Relativism, and Skepticism about Rules [PDF]
, 2010 Part 1 of this paper discusses some uses of arguments from radical moral disagreement—in particular, as directed against absolutist cognitivism—and surveys some semantic issues thus made salient.
Robinson, Denis
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Rural Sociology, Volume 91, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines how “community readiness” operates within just transition governance, arguing that readiness frameworks—though intended to support locally grounded, participatory change—can also unevenly shape recognition, participation, and repair.
Michael Carolan
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Aggregate analysis of vowel pronunciation in Swedish dialects
Oslo Studies in Language, 2011 In this paper an aggregate analysis of vowel pronunciation in Swedish dialects is proposed by means of multidimensional scaling (MDS). The Gap statistic showed that no statistically significant partitioning of Swedish dialects can be made based on vowel pronunciation, which means that the dialects form a true linguistic continuum.
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 232-246, June 2026.Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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Early production of the passive in two Eastern Bantu languages [PDF]
, 2012 The passive construction is acquired relatively late by children learning to speak many languages, with verbal passives not fully acquired till age 6 in English. In other languages it appears earlier, around age 3 or before.
Alcock, Katherine +2 more
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Feral Territories: The Suburbanization of Nature in Eastern Bangkok
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT Between the 1960s and 1980s, American and international financial and technical assistance spurred men with means to bring together concrete, asphalt, timber, and steel to construct unplanned, poorly serviced (because they were unplanned), and expensive subdivisions at the outskirts of what was then central Bangkok.
Samson Lim
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Acoustic cues for the korean stop contrast-dialectal variation [PDF]
, 2013 In this study, cross-dialectal variation in the use of the acoustic cues of VOT and F0 to mark the laryngeal contrast in Korean stops is examined with Chonnam Korean and Seoul Korean.
Choi, Hansook
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British Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 619-638, May 2026.We explore a topological model that situates teachers' agency as a constituent element within the convergent and divergent dynamics at the intersection of human‐mediated and algorithmically mediated pedagogies. Ubiquitous AI in education is designed to simulate, emulate and automate human processes and behaviours through datafication.
Keith Turvey, Norbert Pachler
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Zeitschrift für SprachwissenschaftThis special issue examines the question of how both formal(ist) and functional(ist) accounts or elements of theorizing can contribute to the explanation of (morpho)syntactic variation. Are formal and functional approaches really irreconcilable with each
Strobel Thomas
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