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Implicit Standardization in a Minority Language Community: Real-Time Syntactic Change among Hasidic Yiddish Writers [PDF]

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2020
The recent turn to “big data” from social media corpora has enabled sociolinguists to investigate patterns of language variation and change at unprecedented scales.
Isaac L. Bleaman
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Factors Affecting Communication Outcomes for Deaf and Multilingual Learners: A Systematic Review [PDF]

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children who are exposed to more than one spoken language can be described as deaf and multilingual learners (DMLs). Increased globalisation and technological advancements in hearing amplification mean an increasing number of children who are DHH access more than one spoken language (with and without ...
Elizabeth Kilmartin, Paul Conroy, Janine Owens   +2 more
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Aging in Nationhood: Everyday Nationalism and Belonging Among Seniors in Old‐Age Homes in Québec [PDF]

The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 103-113, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholars of aging and nationalism rarely engage with each another. To remedy this gap, I examine how ethnonationalism becomes a resource for navigating the precarity of aging. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two private senior residences in a region of Québec, I show how financially privileged Québécois seniors enact nationhood through ...
Jessica Stallone
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Language exposure practices among Hasidic Yiddish-Hebrew speaking children – in support of Yiddish vitality in Israel

Ampersand
Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic communities in Israel maintain the use of Yiddish as a prestigious language, connecting generations and preserving the communities’ traditional way of living (Hary and BenorBerlin, 2019)).
Hadar Abutbul-Oz, Dafna Yitzhaki, Sharon Armon-Lotem   +2 more
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The overlap of anti‐Black and anti‐protest rhetoric: How far‐right political commentators preserve anti‐Black racist stereotypes in the context of Black Lives Matter debates [PDF]

British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Research has shown that speakers opposing political demonstrations can pathologize protesters campaigning against racial prejudice in order to justify racialized police profiling and brutality. This paper builds on these insights by exploring how right‐wing political commentators reinforce the racist stereotype of violent Black people when ...
Alexander Hunt, Mirko Demasi, Simon Goodman   +2 more
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The Continuing Story of the Yiddish Language: The Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts

Text Matters, 2015
The focus of my article is a unique place, the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, which connects Yiddish culture with the American one, the experience of the Holocaust with the descendants of the survivors, and a modern idea of Jewishness ...
Brygida Gasztold
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Yiddish Language and Ashkenazic Jews: A Perspective from Culture, Language, and Literature [PDF]

Genome Biology and Evolution, 2016
Aptroot M.
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YidTakNL Corpus: 18th–19th Centuries Regulations of the High German Jewish Community in Holland

Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023
The YidTakNL dataset is a thorough bibliography of Yiddish regulations and announcements by the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Amsterdam between 1708 and 1846. All items are related to social, political and administrative aspects of community life.
Ronny Reshef, Mirjam Gutschow
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An Overview of the Language History of the Hungarian Jewish Community in the Carpathian Basin and Diaspora with a Special Emphasis on Yiddish

Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2020
This paper presents a brief language history of the Hungarian Jewish community since their establishment in the Carpathian Basin to the present, with a special focus on Yiddish. Between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century, Yiddish became the group’
Siarl Ferdinand
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Ultra-Orthodox fertility and marriage in the United States: Evidence from the American Community Survey [PDF]

Demographic Research, 2023
BACKGROUND: Amid low fertility rates in the industrialized world, some subpopulations have maintained high fertility rates. However, it has often been difficult to study these populations due to limitations in extant data sources.
Lyman Stone
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