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The influence of linguistic and social factors on the recent decline of French ne [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In this article we present some results showing the decline in radio speech in the use of the French negative particle ne over the last forty years or so.
Armstrong, N., Smith, A.
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The development of medical students' professional identities in rural settings: A scoping review

open access: yesMedical Education, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 381-398, April 2026.
Abstract Background Major documented disparities exist in health equity between individuals living in rural and metropolitan areas. Recruiting and retaining doctors in rural areas remains a considerable challenge. Students' exposure to rural experiences facilitates their development of professional identities aligned to this specific community of ...
Catherine Garnsey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Les Participes, l’Infinitif et le Gérondif, entre scalarité et rattachement [+ / - local] [PDF]

open access: yesStudii de Lingvistica, 2012
Non-finite verbs, also frequently called unmarked verbs, constitute a large field for variationist studies in linguistics, for typology and furthermore for Usage-Based Grammars.
Frédéric Torterat
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Variationist sociolinguistics and corpus-based variationist linguistics: overlap and cross-pollination potential

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 2017
AbstractThe paper surveys overlap between corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics. Corpus linguistics is customarily defined as a methodology that bases claims about language on usage patterns in collections of naturalistic, authentic speech or text. Because this is what is typically done in variationist sociolinguistics work, I argue that
openaire   +2 more sources

Employing geographical principles for sampling in state of the art dialectological projects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The aims of this paper are twofold: First, we locate the most effective human geographical methods for sampling across space in large-scale dialectological projects.
Allen   +47 more
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley   +1 more source

Función informacional de las escisiones en español

open access: yesLetras, 2014
Ha sido frecuente que el español de Centroamérica como variante se ha excluido de los estudios lingüísticos, tanto de corte variacionista como teóricos, y muchos de sus aspectos estructurales no han sido abordados.
Viviana Núñez Alvarado
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A Guide to Build (ING) GLMM Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 2, Linguistic Factors

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This second paper in a two‐part methodological guide demonstrates how Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) tree analysis can be used to explore linguistic conditioning in sociolinguistic variation. Building on Part 1, which introduced the dataset and illustrated how GLMM trees reveal social patterning in (ING) variation, Part 2 focuses on the
Matt Hunt Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation:class, ethnicity, and social practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article examines how the social meanings of phonetic variation in a British adolescent community are influenced by a complex relationship between ethnicity, social class and social practice. I focus on the realisation of the HAPPY vowel in Sheffield
Kirkham, Sam
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

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