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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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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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Reaching out to the other side: Formal-linguistics-based SLA and Socio-SLA [PDF]
, 2013 Generative linguistics has long been concerned with the linguistic competence of the “ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech-community, who knows its language perfectly” (Chomsky 1965: 3).
Kinzler +30 more
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Changes and continuities in second person address pronoun usage in Bogotá Spanish
Open Linguistics, 2023 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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Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment [PDF]
, 2019 Contrary to Labov’s Principle of style shifting, studies in language obsolescence portray speakers of dying languages as ‘monostylistic’, a characterization questioned here. Variationist methodology is adopted in a context of gradual language death.
Kasstan, J., Kasstan, J.
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General introduction: A comparative perspective on probabilistic variation in grammar
Glossa, 2018 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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Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2022 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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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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