Sociálně motivované variování výslovnosti cizích slov : Socially Motivated Variation in the Pronunciation of Loanwords [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2016 This paper presents the findings of a study on loanword pronunciation in Czech, focusing in particular on the impact of four primary independent variables (age, sex, education, and region of origin, i.e. Prague / Brno) on loanword pronunciation.
Martin Havlík
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 367-370, November 2025.
Ariana Steele
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Age and Accent - Changes in a Southern Welsh English Accent [PDF]
, 2010 This paper describes the accent of Neath (South Wales) from a socio-dialectological perspective and deals with changes in the accent which are due to the non-linguistic factor age. In a direct interview with indirect questioning, 27 informants from Neath
Podhovnik, Edith
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The use of address forms among faculty academic staff of Bayero University, Kano
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2019 This paper investigates the use of address forms among the academic staff of the Faculty of Arts and Islamic Studies at the Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
Isa Yusufu Chamo
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Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift. [PDF]
Lang Speech, 2022 Villarreal D, Clark L.
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Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines functional similarities and differences in the use of pragmatic features – in particular quotatives and general extenders – on the right and left periphery of direct quotations.
Andersen +11 more
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A diachronic corpus-based study into the effects of age and gender on the usage patterns of verb-forming suffixation in spoken British English [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to ascertain the degree to which lexical diversity, density and creativity in everyday spoken British English have changed over a 20-year period, as a function of age and gender. Usage patterns of the four verb-forming suffixes, -
Jaworska, Sylvia +2 more
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(Re)defining linguistic diversity: What is being protected in European language policy? [PDF]
, 2017 Linguistic diversity is complicated. It involves two main elements: a headcount of “languages”, plus variation and variability within and between them. In this article we show how language policy in Europe claims to protect diversity but falls short on ...
Láncos, Petra Lea, Sayers, Dave
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Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Pescuma VN +42 more
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Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2017 This research reflects on the vowel epenthesis in Brazilian Portuguese, especially on the phonetic-phonological phenomenon known as suarabácti, which consists in the insertion of a epenthetic vowel to undo inappropriate consonant clusters.
Valter Pereira Romano +1 more
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