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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Dialect variation"”.
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Dialect Variation and Change in Eastern Arabia: Al-Ahsa Dialect
… investigation of the Al-Ahsa urban dialect (AU) in eastern Arabia, a dialect that belongs to the Najdi type of dialects. The focus of this investigation is on the dialect spoken in the urban centres of Al-Ahsa (Hofuf and Mubarraz). Two salient vocalic features of AU dialect are …
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Dialect variation in a cross-border language: a sociolinguistic study of Silozi in Zambia and Namibia
… focused on development and structure. Silozi dialect variation is yet to be explored in depth. This is a study of dialect variation in cross-border Silozi. The focus is on the lexicon and the morphosyntactic structures of the Silozi varieties spoken in the towns of Katima Mulilo (Namibia) and …
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The influence of long-term exposure to dialect variation on representation specificity and word learning in toddlers.
… For some monolingual toddlers, classified as monodialectal, their language exposure is generally consistent, because both of their parents speak the dialect of the local area. Yet for other toddlers, classified as multidialectal, the language environment is more variable, because at least one of …
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ISOLATING EFFECTS OF PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT ON CHILDREN’S COMPREHENSION OF TWO DIALECTS OF ENGLISH, AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH AND GENERAL AMERICAN ENGLISH
… scientists is children’s use of different dialects in the classroom. Many African American students speak African American English (AAE), a rule-governed, but socially stigmatized, dialect of English that differs in phonology, morphosyntax, and pragmatics from General American English …
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The Effects of Language Variation and Age on Measures of Narrative Microstructure
… was to explore the relationship between language variation, age and narrative microstructure in the spoken narratives of African American school-age children. While efforts to identify language-variety fair measures are underway (e.g., Mills et al., 2021; Mills et al., 2017; Mills & Fox, 2016), …