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Pulling Out All the Stops: Referee Design and Phonetic Correlates of Gay Men’s English
Studies of intraspeaker variation and the linguistic indexing of sexual identity have formed an important part of recent research in variationist sociolinguistics.
Victoria Dickson, Yorath Turner
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The rhotics, due to their different realizations, have been the object of study in many sociolinguistic and dialectological studies (Aguilera (2008), Botassini (2009), Callou, Moraes e Leite (2013), Almeida e Kailer (2016), Maciel (2018), Maciel e ...
Dircel Aparecida Kailer +2 more
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Employing geographical principles for sampling in state of the art dialectological projects [PDF]
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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Linguistic variations of Blaan in Soccsksargen Region: A variationist sociolinguistic study
Understanding language variations opens a wider perspective to language enthusiasts in boosting sociolinguistic awareness as regards to the different ways of using the language in different language contexts. It provides people from different geographical locations of Blaan to understand the language and its use.
Raleigh Ojanola, Mary Ann Tarusan
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Phonetic choices realized by a person in a speech community are usually labeled in a positive or negative way, demonstrated by linguistic attitudes. Based on the methodology of Sociolinguistics Variationist, this article aims to assess the beliefs and ...
Luiz Antonio Xavier Dias
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Vouvoiement and tutoiement: sociolinguistic reflections [PDF]
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009. Published version reproduced with the permission of the publisher.This article offers a critical review of research on the T/V (tu/vous) choice in French, and an analysis of this alternation in terms of ...
Coveney, Aidan
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Vous or tu? Native and non-native speakers of French on a sociolinguistic tightrope [PDF]
Sociolinguistic rules governing choice of pronouns of address are notoriously difficult in French, despite the fact that the number of variants is rather limited: the more formal vous versus the more informal tu.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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Identifying agents of change: Simplification of possessive marking in Abui-Malay bilinguals
This paper investigates variation in possessive marking in Abui, a language spoken in a minority bilingual community in eastern Indonesia. Abui youngsters grow up acquiring both Abui (Papuan) and Alor Malay (Austronesian), but only become active speakers
Francesca Moro +2 more
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