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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Language Contact"”.
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A study in language contact
… report on a research project investigating the language behaviour of Sotho-English bilingual students at the University of Cape Town (hereafter UCT). Sotho is used here as an umbrella term to refer to the Sotho group of languages; Sesotho (Southern Sotho), Sepedi (Northern Sotho) and Setswana. …
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Language contact in South Oscan epigraphy
This thesis examines evidence for language contact between Oscan and Greek in the corpus of Oscan inscriptions from Lucania, Bruttium and Messana. These inscriptions were written in an adapted form of the Greek alphabet from around the fourth to first century BC, with a few of the latest texts …
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Language Contact Phenomena among Algerian University Students
… created an important context in which different languages and structures can be used in the same conversations. This research investigates the practice of language contact phenomena within social media using Facebook as the main platform, and also within face-to-face interaction among Algerian …
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Language Contact in Majorca: An Experimental Sociophonetic Approach
The results show evidence of contact-induced change in progress in the intonation of Spanish in particular. That is, the results suggest that Spanish-dominant Majorcan bilinguals are progressively borrowing Catalan-like intonation into their Spanish. This was true for both the intonation of …
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Some Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Contact in Thailand
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:12:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7915442.pdf: 7454541 bytes, checksum: 09f86bec638073b2f46e040da94d4f69 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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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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Effects of Identity, Uncertainty, and Language Contact on Intergroup Relations
… Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006) and indirect forms of contact (Wright et al., 1997), less is known about the power of contact with an outgroup language to shape intergroup relations. To address this lacuna in the research, the two current studies examined two potential contextual factors that may …
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Language contact and convergence: Englishization of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan
The Englishization of Chinese occurs as a consequence of translations into Chinese of Western literary works, mainly from English, in the written mode.
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Language Contact, Convergence, and Attitudes: The Case of English in Germany
… Englishization of German as a result of language contact and convergence. Aside from providing a more comprehensive assessment of the influence of English, the study also has relevance for other research areas, such as multilingualism in Germany and language use within the context of the …
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Linguistic Change in a Language Contact Situation: A Cross-Generational Study
The focus of this dissertation is the language contact situation of New York bilingual Puerto Ricans. The subjects of the study are ten first and second generation Puerto Ricans. This dissertation addresses two hypotheses: first that 'a life cycle of language use' exists in the El Barrio community, …
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Language Contact and Inner-Syriac Developments: Lexical Study of the Peshitta Genesis
… lexical analysis of the Peshitta by identifying language contact (Aramaic-Greek-Syriac) and corpus contact (LXX-P, T-P) on the one hand, and inner-Syriac developments on the other. Using case studies from Peshitta Genesis, the thesis responds to proposals of Septuagint or Targumic influence upon …
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The Englishization of Tanzanian Kiswahili: A study in language contact and convergence
… of Tanzanian Kiswahili resulting from the contact between Kiswahili and English. A cusory examination of the research on bilingualism and multilingualism indicates that the vast majority of studies on language variation and change in African languages have generally been undertaken from the …
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Scandinavian place-names in Northern Britain as evidence for language contact and interaction
… formations, as evidence of the linguistic contact and interaction which occurred between incoming Scandinavian speakers and the native population of northern Britain, in light of current theories of language contact. The first chapter analyses the nature of the relationship between …
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Intonation and Language Contact: A Case Study of Two Varieties of Peruvian Spanish
… previously found in broad focus, except in other contact varieties of Spanish. In addition, Cuzco Quechua coincides with the feature of aligning prenuclear peaks within the stressed syllable. This data then suggest the possibility of contact between prosodic systems. However, not all intonation …
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Quichua-Spanish language contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: revisiting media lengua syncretic language practices
… might have given rise to Media Lengua, a ‘mixed’ language comprised of a Quichua grammar and Spanish lexicon. Muysken attributes the formation of Media Lengua to relexification, ruling out any influence from other bilingual phenomena. I argue that the only characteristic that distinguishes Media …
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Language contact in St. Lucia: The features and origins of St. Lucia Creole English
… 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 by not only documenting the …
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A case study in language contact : English, Kiswahili and Luhyia amongst the Luhyia people of Kenya
… work on English in East Africa. Studies of language maintenance and language shift have been undertaken by eminent scholars such as Brenzinger (1992), Eastman (1990, 1992). However, it is Myers-Scotton's pioneering research on code-switching among the Luhyia speakers undertaken in the 1980s …
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Effect of language contact on speech and gesture: The case of Turkish-Dutch bilinguals in the Netherlands
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Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Lexical borrowings from French, English and African languages
… where English and French are official state languages and Dagara is the shared local language. Dagara is a language spoken by about 1,400,000 people in the Northwestern corner of Ghana, the Southwestern part of Burkina Faso and the Northeastern part of Côte d’Ivoire. This partitioning is a …
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