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Listening at different scales: Sociolinguistic perception and the listening subject

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This commentary argues that sociophonetic perception studies and linguistic anthropological analyses of the listening subject examine the same underlying process—ideologically structured listening—though at different observational scales.
Anna‐Marie Sprenger
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A case of variable impoverishment in European Portuguese [PDF]

, 2014
Este artigo estuda um caso de concordância variável em português europeu que se verifica numa área circunscrita do Norte de Portugal e tem uma distribuição particular: apenas afeta as formas verbais de Infinitivo Flexionado e do Futuro do Conjuntivo ...
Barbosa, Pilar, Freire, Telma
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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A Usage-Based Perspective on Spanish Variable Clitic Placement

Languages, 2020
This study provides a usage-based analysis of Spanish Variable Clitic Placement (VCP). A variationist analysis of VCP in spoken Argentine Spanish indicates that VCP grammar is constrained by lexical (finite verb) and semantic (animacy) factors ...
Pablo E. Requena
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Variationist sociolinguistics and corpus-based variationist linguistics: overlap and cross-pollination potential

Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 2017
AbstractThe paper surveys overlap between corpus linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics. Corpus linguistics is customarily defined as a methodology that bases claims about language on usage patterns in collections of naturalistic, authentic speech or text. Because this is what is typically done in variationist sociolinguistics work, I argue that
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French in Springfield: A Variationist Analysis of the Translation of First-Person Singular Future Actions in the Quebec and French Dubbings of The Simpsons [PDF]

, 2016
This article follows on from Plourde’s work to the extent that it uses the French and Quebec dubbings of The Simpsons as a springboard to address a broader question.
Mboudjeke, Jean-Guy
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Sociolinguistics of Palestinian Arabic [PDF]

, 2015
Contribution to the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language ...
Uri Horesh, William Cotter
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A Guide to Build (ING) Generalised Linear Mixed Model Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 1, Social Factors

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT This two‐part guide/research report introduces the Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) tree analysis technique to variationist sociolinguistics using (ING) variation in Canadian Maritime English (CME) as a test case. GLMM tree analysis combines the advantages of tree‐based recursive partitioning with the ability to include random effects in ...
Matt Hunt Gardner
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Vowel harmonization in Brazilian and in São Tomé Portuguese and the raising of the pre-stress /e/

Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2020
This article draws on the tenets of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 1972, 1994, 2001) to examine the influence of the process of vocal harmonisation on raising of the pre-stress / e / in the Brazilian and São Tomé varieties of Portuguese.
Fabiane Rocha
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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