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Showing 1 to 20 of 1680 for “"Language Change""”.
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Language change and evolution in Online Social Networks
Language is in constant flux, whether through the creation of new terms or the changing meanings of existing words. The process by which language change happens is through complex reinforcing interactions between individuals and the social structures in which they exist. There has been much …
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Septuagint Lexicography and Language Change in Greek Judges
… over the nature of post-classical Greek and the language of the Septuagint, which has predisposed scholars against viewing the Septuagint corpus as part of post-classical Greek in general. By pointing out methodological flaws that have plagued Septuagint lexicography—as well as theoretical …
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MODELING THE LEADERSHIP OF LANGUAGE CHANGE FROM DIACHRONIC TEXT
Natural languages constantly change over time. These changes are modulated by social factors such as influence which are not always directly observable. However, large-scale computational modeling of language change using timestamped text can uncover the latent organization and social structure. In …
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The recategorization of "chaos": a case study of language change and theory change
… investigates the relationship between semantic change and theory change in science. The study focuses on thirty years of developments in chaos theory. Because of measurement problems associated with certain nonlinear phenomena, the observability of chaotic systems is severely limited. In such …
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Language Change and Infinitival Complements in Old French (Syntax, Historical, Romance)
This study presents an analysis of infinitival complement constructions in Old French which differ syntactically from their Modern French parallels. The analysis is formulated in the terms of the Government and Binding framework and it has the aim both of accounting for the constructions in …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… 2007). When societal factors limit heritage language exposure, tense and aspect morphology is susceptible to change (Guijarro-Fuentes & Clibbens 2004). Findings of a study on 11 Chilean-American heritage speakers show that production of the preterit is overextending, resulting in less …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… 2007). When societal factors limit heritage language exposure, tense and aspect morphology is susceptible to change (Guijarro-Fuentes & Clibbens 2004). Findings of a study on 11 Chilean-American heritage speakers show that production of the preterit is overextending, resulting in less …
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Kombuistaal innie Kaap1: Investigating Gender and Language Change in the development of Kaaps
… point of departure the term kombuistaal (kitchen language), the forerunner of Kaaps, a stigmatised variety of Afrikaans. It aims to answer the following supplementary questions: 1) What possible role did women who occupied spaces historically associated with the Cape slave kitchen of the …
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Towards an empirical approach to the study of dubbing-induced language change in Italian
… to researching translation interference and language change through dubbing and it takes the Italian language as a case study. By employing an empirical methodology, this research overcomes some of the limitations of previous approaches to the subject and identifies the object of study with …
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Language Planning in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Analysis of the Role of Translators as Agents in Language Change
Language planning and policy (LPP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been constructed on the basis of a standard language ideology that has often excluded the speakers from the language legitimisation process. The LPP efforts for the Bosnian language have led to conflicting covert and overt …
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A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian
In the spoken dialect of Tehrani in Persian, a new marker -esh optionally attaches to 3SG past verbs indexing the subject. While there is a claim that this marker has been borrowed from the Persian object clitic paradigm and grammaticalized as a new subject agreement marker to fill the gap in the …
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From Translation to Transformation: Contact-Induced Language change in Greek via Neural Machine Translation from English
Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζει τη γλωσσική σύγκλιση στον ελληνικό θεσμικό λόγο που παράγεται μέσω ανθρώπινης αλλά και νευρωνικής μηχανικής μετάφρασης από αγγλικά κείμενα-πηγές. Με βάση τη θεωρία της γλωσσικής επαφής, η μελέτη προσεγγίζει τη νευρωνική μηχανική μετάφραση ως πεδίο σύγχρονης …
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A historical and sociolinguistic approach to language change in Mandarin Chinese: Corpus evidence for the development of YOU-MEI-YOU
This dissertation introduces corpus-based analyses of a syntactic construction in Standard Mandarin, YOU-MEI-YOU (or ‘have-not-have’)+VP, which is used to form perfective questions. The purpose of the study is to (i) find evidence for the claim that preverbal YOU-MEI-YOU, i.e. YOU-MEI-YOU found in …
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The change of language and the language of change : a consideration of some of the assumptions behind non-governmental language planning projects : implications for language in education policy
Language planning and language policy are currently being debated by both politicians and educationists. Language policy is seen by both Afrikaner nationalists and some progressive educationists as the key to political and economic power. This dissertation argues that language policy-making alone …
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Rethinking decreolization: Language contact and change in Louisiana Creole
All languages change. Creoles are no exception. However, do creoles change in the same ways as other languages? Research on language change in creoles has hinged on the notion of decreolization: apparently a ‘special case’ of contact-induced change whereby the creole adverges to the lexifier …
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Natural Language Processing for Behavior Change and Health Improvement
… in machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP), new techniques can enhance EFT analysis and user experience. This study investigates EFT cue texts to identify characteristics that make them effective, and explores how a chatbot can assist users in generating impactful …
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Tongue -Tied: Sociocultural Change, Language, and Language Ideology Among the Oglala Lakota (Pine Ridge Sioux)
The number of languages spoken in the world declined considerably throughout the 20th century. In the last decade of that period, initiatives to revitalize endangered languages rose dramatically. However, in most cases revitalization initiatives did not halt or significantly slow language loss. In …
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Language variation and change: A case study of Shaba Swahili
Swahili has generally been perceived as a homogenous entity whose norms are reflected in the variety spoken on the coast of East Africa. Any deviations from these norms are perceived as trademark of colloquialism, corruption, deterioration and/or sub-standardness. In the Zairian province of Shaba, …
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Towards a Language of Education Itself: Preparesqueness, Hostpitality, and Cathartic Change
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