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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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Language and Variation: A Study of English and Persian Wh-questions [PDF]
Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2015 It was claimed by variationists that languages experience variation at all levels, which is supposed to be patterned. The present study aimed at exploring how variation occurred in English and Persian wh-questions.
Laya Heidari Darani
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Raising of the Final Atonic Vowel /o/ in Irati, Paraná
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2018 This research (with the support of CNPq, Process number: 443809/2014-3), based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 1994, 2008), sought to investigate the raising process of the mid vowel /o/ in ...
Lucelene Teresinha FRANCESCHINI +1 more
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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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PALATALIZATION OF /L/: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL FACTORS
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2016 This study deals with the variation of /l/ in pre-vowel position in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), more specifically the palatalization that occurs before high anterior segments, when following this phoneme.
Marilucia Barros Oliveira
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Overt and Null Subject Variation in Ammani Arabic: Distribution, Constraints, and Implications
ПсихолінгвістикаPurpose. This article investigates the distribution of overt and null subject pronouns in Ammani Arabic (AA) from a variationist perspective, identifying social and linguistic constraints that shape pronoun expression. The study examines how age, gender,
Рахаф Хатер +3 more
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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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Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2019 The present study aims to investigate the deletion of the unstressed vowels [] and [] in the final syllable of paroxytone words occurring in four localities that are part of the ALiB Project – Pedra Azul, Teófilo Otoni, Diamantina and Montes Claros –
Maria do Carmo Sá Teles de Araujo ROLO +1 more
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Social Salience and the Sociolinguistic Monitor: A Case Study of ING and TH-fronting in Britain [PDF]
, 2014 This article examines the role of social salience, or the relative ability of a linguistic variable to evoke social meaning, in structuring listeners’ perceptions of quantitative sociolinguistic distributions.
Ajzen Icek +42 more
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