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Connecting Structure and Variation in Sound Change
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 “Structured heterogeneity”, a founding concept of variationist sociolinguistics, puts focus on the ordered social differentiation in language. We extend the notion of structured heterogeneity to formal phonological structure, i.e., representations based
David Natvig, Joseph Salmons
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The analysis of languages in contact: A case study through a variationist lens
Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2016 This article discusses the contributions made by variationist sociolinguistics to the study of languages in contact. After summarizing the development of this subfield and its theoretical and methodological implications, 3rd p.sg.
Ana Maria Carvalho
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Lifespans and Styles, 2017 It is my pleasure to present the first issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation . This issue includes five papers on topics about within-speaker variation that are largely under-researched in
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Adenoide: uma personagem sociolinguística
Entrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2016 The article deals with the character Adenoid, who integrates the TV series “Pé na cova”, in a sociolinguistic variationist perspective, of labovian line.
Flavio Biasutti Valadares
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A Variationist Sociolinguistic Analysis of Intensifiers in Oslo Norwegian
Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 2022 The present study uses variationist sociolinguistic methods to examine the intensifier system in Oslo Norwegian. Results indicate that both linguistic and social factors influence intensifier use. Predicative adjectives were intensified more frequently than attributive adjectives, women used intensifiers more frequently than men, and younger speakers ...
James M. Stratton, John D. Sundquist
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Current research on linguistic variation in the Arabic-speaking world [PDF]
, 2016 Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an area spanning roughly from northwest Africa to the Persian Gulf ...
Uri Horesh, William Cotter
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Socio-functionalist incursions into the tense-aspect-mood domain
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2013 This article examines aspects of the socio-functionalist paradigm, an approach that fuses, within the study of variation and change, theoretical and methodological hypotheses of Variationist Sociolinguistics and of Functionalism.
Fábio Fernandes Torres +2 more
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Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey [PDF]
, 2016 Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language.
de Jong, Franciska +3 more
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Todos são x tudo é: os usos do pronome tudo no português popular falado em São Paulo
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2013 This paper aims to be a quantitative analysis of the pronouns tudo/todos in contexts in which they refer to or combine with a name or pronoun semantically or syntactically plural.
Deize Crespim Pereira +1 more
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Mudança linguística no modo imperativo – uma análise multissistêmica
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2011 From a corpus made up of dramatic texts produced in Brazil’s southeast region between 1850 and 1975, our research aims to study speakers’ usage of the imperative mood in the singular form during this period of time. Our intention was to investigate usage
Henrique Santos Braga
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