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Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey [PDF]
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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Mudança linguística no modo imperativo – uma análise multissistêmica
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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In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England [PDF]
In this paper, we draw on a socially stratified corpus of dialect data collected in north-east England to test recent proposals that grammaticalization processes are implicated in the synchronic variability of general extenders (GEs), i.e., phrase- or ...
Levey, S, Pichler, H
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Changes and continuities in second person address pronoun usage in Bogotá Spanish
In this article, we provide further evidence that Bogotá Spanish is transitioning from being an extensively usted-using variety into one in which tú is preferred in informal interaction by analyzing survey data through a quantitative approach, and ...
Fernández-Mallat Víctor, Barrero David
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General introduction: A comparative perspective on probabilistic variation in grammar
This special collection brings together research exploring and evaluating probabilistic variation patterns from a comparative perspective, thus highlighting current work situated at the crossroads of research on usage-based theoretical linguistics ...
Benedikt Heller +3 more
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Based in a sociophonetic analysis of lyrics performed by eight male Reggaeton artists of Puerto Rican origin, this study combines raciolinguistic and variationist frameworks to examine the frequency of occurrence and underlying linguistic, musicological,
Derrek Powell
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'Awesome' insights into semantic variation [PDF]
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Robinson, Justyna A
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Heritage Tagalog Phonology and a Variationist Framework of Language Contact
Heritage language variation and change provides an opportunity to examine the interplay of contact-induced and language-internal effects while extending the variationist framework beyond monolingual speakers and majority languages.
Pocholo Umbal, Naomi Nagy
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Sali A. Tagliamonte:Variationist Sociolinguistics. Change, Observation, Interpretation [PDF]
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Cristina Bleor¸tu, Miguel Cuevas-Alonso
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A new role for narrative in variationist sociolinguistics [PDF]
Labov and Waletzky’s (1997[1967]) path-breaking description of “narrative syntax” arose in the context of variationist sociolinguistic research, and narrative continues to be an important source of data for variationist’ work. In most of this work, however, narrative is not the object of study.
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