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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Language variety"”.
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Non-cognitive factors in second language acquisition and language variety: a single case study of a Saudi male English for academic purposes student in the United States
… case study is a close-up view of how one second language learner, Abdul, acquired a particular variety of American English-in this case African American Vernacular English (AAVE) (Perryman-Clark, 2013). Non-cognitive factors are examined, and Stephen Krashen's Monitor Theory is suggested as a …
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The difference between rural and urban Xhosa varieties: A sociolinguistic study
… two interrelated issues, namely, the concept of language variety, also called linguistic diversity or linguistic variation and the difference between rural and urban Xhosa varieties in terms of standard and non-standard forms, respectively. The thesis is conceived partly against the background of …
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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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The Effects of Language Variation and Age on Measures of Narrative Microstructure
… study 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, …
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A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging
… linguistic features which define texting as a language variety. It focuses on how the language of texting, Txt, is shaped by texters actively fulfilling interpersonal goals. The thesis starts with an overview of the literature on texting, which indicates the need for thorough linguistic …
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Sheng : the mixed language of Nairobi
… dissertation is to determine whether Sheng, a language spoken in the Eastlands area of Nairobi, Kenya, is a mixed language (incorporating Swahili, English and local vernaculars). The study focuses on the lexicon and morphosyntax, but social factors are examined as well. Three broad research …
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A comparative study of the Morphosyntaz and Phonetics of Town Bemba and Standard Bemba of the Copperbelt Zambia
… framework has been used in characterising the language variety. TB has been regarded as an urban variety spoken in the townships of the Copperbelt province, Zambia. It had also been perceived as a 'secret language' or 'mixed jargon' used by male migrant workers on the mine, but today, it is …
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Atitudes lingüísticas de alunos de escolas públicas de Juiz de Fora MG
… identification of all students with the rurban variety, which is in the middle of the continuum. There was no difference between the ratings of the students of the public schools and the private one. The students also established a clear connection between the urban/standard variety and the …
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Die sprachliche Zweifaltigkeit Laufenburgs. Eine soziolinguistische Studie am Hochrhein
… development in relation to the standard languages of their respective countries during the 19th and 20th centuries, and to field-test the current linguistic, cultural and social relations between the localities. In the introductory diachronic section of the work, we will identify the main …
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When do dialects become languages? A cognitive perspective
… that offer to identify the boundaries between languages and dialects, yet these distinctions are inconsistent and are often as political as they are linguistic (Chambers & Trudgill, 1998). A different perspective is offered in this thesis, by investigating how closely related linguistic …
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Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: A corpus-centred investigation
… a particular focus on Vietnamese as the heritage language. Specifically, it documents the vernacular and considers key aspects of this data from different theoretical perspectives. Its main contribution is an insight into a rarely studied heritage language variety in a contact community that has …
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Grammatical problems involved in teaching English to speakers of Syrian Arabic
… common ground where the linguist can meet the language teacher, the unmistakable contributions of the linguist to the field of language teaching seem to be twofold: he is able to provide, firstly, satisfactory attitudes to'language study, and, secondly, descriptive material of the language/s …
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El tratamiento de la variedad del español
Die vorliegende Arbeit vergleicht linguistische Elemente des in Mexiko und des in Spanien gesprochenen Spanisch. Diese Elemente werden auf ihre Relevanz für den Spanisch-Fremdsprachenunterricht hin untersucht. Hierzu werden die audiovisuellen Texte von zwei Kurzfilmen zum Thema des Bullying …