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Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie, Lea Meriläinen, Mikko Laitinen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Word-Final /s/ Aspiration in a Rio de Janeiro Favela

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2019
Following the theoretical and methodological principles of Variationist Sociolinguistics, this paper analyzes the use of the aspirated variant of postvocalic /s/ by residents of City of God, a predominantly-black neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro that is ...
Edvan P. Brito
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A corpus analysis of variable definite article with personal proper names across three varieties of Spanish

Isogloss, 2023
It has been shown that the presence of a definite article (DA) prior to a personal name (PN) varies not only across languages, but also across varieties of the same language.
Robin Tieperman, Brendan Regan
doaj   +1 more source

Contact, the feature pool and the speech community : The emergence of Multicultural London English. [PDF]

, 2011
In Northern Europe’s major cities, new varieties of the host languages are emerging in the multilingual inner cities. While some analyse these ‘multiethnolects’ as youth styles, we take a variationist approach to an emerging ‘Multicultural London English’
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WE, ELF and ELT: Perspectives on English and applied linguistics

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract In a paper which originally set the scene for WE study, Braj Kachu argued that the ‘global diffusion of English’ called for a new paradigm of enquiry which recognized the independent status of varieties of English used by communities other than those of Inner Circle native speakers.
Henry Widdowson
wiley   +1 more source

“Someone has been coronated” Nigerian English lexical innovations in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021
This sociolinguistic study explores lexical innovations and variation in the lexemes of Nigerian English formed during the COVID-19Pandemic. The emergence and spread of the virus have significantly altered the societal norm to becoming what is called the
Oluwateniola Kupolati, Adebola Adebileje, Akinniyi Adeleke   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vous or tu? Native and non-native speakers of French on a sociolinguistic tightrope [PDF]

, 2004
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
core   +1 more source

Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
wiley   +1 more source

Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation:class, ethnicity, and social practice [PDF]

, 2015
This article examines how the social meanings of phonetic variation in a British adolescent community are influenced by a complex relationship between ethnicity, social class and social practice. I focus on the realisation of the HAPPY vowel in Sheffield
Kirkham, Sam
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