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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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The mediated innovation model: a framework for researching media influence in language change [PDF]

, 2014
Linguistic innovations that arise contemporaneously in highly distant locations, such as quotative be like, have been termed ‘global linguistic variants’.
Allen John, Altendorf Ulrike, Anderson Benedict, Baird Sarah, Castree Noel, Ellis Alexander J., Fairclough Norman, Foulkes Paul, Kuzmack Stefanie, Liebes Tamar, Livingstone Sonia, Milroy Lesley, Milroy Lesley, Patrick Peter L., Rickford John R., Risager Karen, Rogers Everett M., Silverstein Michael, Stuart‐Smith Jane, Stuart‐Smith Jane, Stuart‐Smith Jane, Stuart‐Smith Jane, Stuart‐Smith Jane, Thompson John, Trudgill Peter, Trudgill Peter, Trudgill Peter, Weinreich Uriel, Williams Ann   +28 more
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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

Психолінгвістика
Purpose. 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, Марван Джаррах, Мохаммад Аль-Бадаві, Екаб Аль-Шавашрех   +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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The future of historical sociolinguistics? [PDF]

, 2017
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Auer, Anita, Nurmi, Arja, Palander-Collin, Minna, Säily, Tanja   +3 more
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Deletion of the Final Unstressed Vowels [] and [] in Minas Gerais Locations from the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil – ALiB

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, Jacyra Andrade MOTA   +1 more
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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’
Androutsopoulos, Bickerton, Britain, Britain, Britain, Brown, Buchstaller, Castells, Chambers, Chambers, Cheshire, Cheshire, Clyne, Eckert, Gabrielatos, Hickey, Horvath, Inwood, Kerswill, Kerswill, Kerswill, Kerswill, Kerswill, Kotsinas, Krashen, Labov, Labov, Labov, Labov, Labov, Labov, Labov, Lapidus, Lass, Le Page, Lobanov, Macaulay, Mesthrie, Meyerhoff, Milroy, Milroy, Mufwene, Newton, Quist, Rampton, Roberts, Schilling-Estes, Schumann, Sebba, Sebba, Siegel, Smith, Svendsen, Tagliamonte, Thomason, Torgersen, Torgersen, Trudgill, Watermeyer, Wells, Wiese, Wiese, Winford   +62 more
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Ungrammatical Selves

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 214-217, April 2026.
Vincent Pak
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