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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Perceptual Dialectology"”.
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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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Kiezdeutsch: Perceptions Of A Metropolitan Dialect Of German
… focus groups. I then performed a pilot study of perceptual dialectology folloby an open discussion. Although my sample size proved to be too small and limited to yield any statistically significant results, the data was regardless intriguing. This study focuses on the linguistic and social …
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The effect of borders on the linguistic production and perception of regional identity in Louisville, Kentucky
… and lexical variables used in traditional dialectology. Louisville, Kentucky is considered as a case study for examining how dialect and regional borders in the United States impact speakers‟ linguistic acts of identity, especially the production and perception of such identities. According …