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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"English Dialects"”.
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Northern English Dialects: A perceptual approach
Perceptual dialectology has the capacity to deliver a great many benefits to the study of language varieties. It also allows examination of the underlying factors in dialect use such as the ‘beliefs, attitudes and strategies’ (Preston, 1999: xxiii) which make up language users’ reactions to …
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Gender in English pronouns : myth and reality
This study deals with a feature of traditional English dialects in Southwest England and Newfoundland, namely the use of "gendered" pronouns (primarily he and him) to refer to inanimate objects such as a tree or a watch: "I can't climb him" or "He's a good watch". <br> Background analyses include …
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Language contact in St. Lucia: The features and origins of St. Lucia Creole English
This thesis documents in detail St. Lucia Creole English (SLCE), St. Lucia’s third language variety, which is spoken alongside Kwéyòl, a French-based creole, and Standard English. With only brief descriptions of its features previously available, this work fills a significant gap in the literature …
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Studies in second fronting
This dissertation studies Second Fronting, an Old English sound change which is associated with Mercian, one of the Old English dialects. Due to the lack of preserved material of this dialect, it is very difficult to analyse Second Fronting in detail. Hence it is a change that although it is …
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A Sociolinguistic Survey of (t,d) deletion, (t) glottaling, and their intersection in East Anglian English
… deletion and (t) glottaling – in East Anglian English by maintaining the structuralist roots of the variationist paradigm (e.g. Wolfram 1993; Patrick 1999). It also investigates, for the first time, the covariation between the two linguistic variables by exploring the intersection of (t) …
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Characterizing phonetic transformations and fine-grained acoustic differences across dialects
… speech science and technology in analyzing dialects. In speech science, investigating phonetic rules is usually manually laborious and time consuming, limiting the amount of data analyzed. Without sufficient data, the analysis could potentially overlook or over-specify certain phonetic …
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ISSUES IN THE SUBTITLING AND DUBBING OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILMS INTO ARABIC: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
… tend to face in the subtitling and dubbing of English-language films and television programmes into Arabic and suggests solutions for these problems. In the light of an examination of the generic features of audiovisual translation and of the particular cultural constraints inherent in …
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Relative clauses in dialects of English : a typological approach
This Ph.D thesis compares different dialects, including the Celtic varieties Scottish and Irish English, with regard to mainly adnominal relative clauses. Other types of relative clauses (nominal relative clauses, sentential relative clauses, and intermediate types assembled on a cline) are treated …
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Vernacular vocabulary in the Durham Account Rolls (1278-1538): a philological approach
… is possible to trace features of Northern Middle English (NME). To the best of my knowledge, this question has not been tackled so far in the examination of multilingual sources. I draw on previous work on Middle English dialects, which has made use of English monolingual sources, and discuss to …