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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Variationist"”.
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A variationist perspective on Spanish-origin verbs in Paraguayan Guarani
Paraguay presents a unique case of societal bilingualism in Latin America. Almost 90% of its population speaks the indigenous language Guarani, and half of the population is bilingual in Spanish and Guarani. However, contemporary Guarani has been described as an unpredictable, ad-hoc mix of Guarani …
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Language and identity in the Cockney Diaspora: A sociophonetic and variationist study
This thesis presents four publications exploring variation, change and the social meaning of phonetic features in the context of ongoing linguistic and social change in South East England as related to the Cockney Diaspora. This term refers to the large-scale 20th century relocation of white, …
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A Comparative Variationist Analysis of Phonetic Variation and Change in Toronto Heritage Tagalog
… This dissertation adopts a comparative variationist approach and develops a framework for examining variable patterns of bilingual sound production and the interplay between contact-, internal-, and identity-based processes underlying variation and change. Using Tagalog spontaneous …
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The inflectional morphology of the verb in modern Greek Koine : a variationist approach
… Koine. The analysis is conducted within the variationist generative framework, i.e. it is committed to exhaustiveness and explicitness, but unlike the traditional (Chomksyan) generative model, it is based not only on the intuitions of the author but, more importantly, on observations of …
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THE NASALIZATION OF THE HAITIAN CREOLE DETERMINER LA IN NON-NASAL CONTEXTS: A VARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY
… when following an oral segment. I used a variationist sociolinguistic approach to investigate the issue more extensively and to provide substantive answers to three research questions: (1) Has this linguistic change extended to other social groups, for example, to monolingual speakers of …
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A variationist multilocality study of unstressed vowels and verbal -s marking in the peripheral dialect of east Suffolk
This thesis presents a variationist analysis of two linguistic variables among 72 speakers in three Suffolk communities. It is chiefly inspired by the Labovian sociolinguistic methodology, and the work of Trudgill (e.g. 1974, 1988) in another East Anglian locality, Norwich. It broadly speaking …
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And then I was like, “No way!”: A variationist study of be like in young Cape Town speech
Over the last two decades, the adoption of the quotative be like has emerged as one of the prominent examples of ongoing historical changes in English. This has been documented internationally, but the degree to which this change has taken place in South African English remains understudied. This …
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The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants
… the results of an ethnographically informed, variationist sociophonetic account of the acquisition of vernacular English dialect features by adolescent Roma migrants attending a Manchester high school. As one of the first studies of Romanian Roma acquisition of English, this work speaks to …
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Regional variation of mood use in Spanish: A comparison among three Spanish-speaking regions
The current investigation is framed within variationist sociolinguistics, an area of study that examines how language varies and is influenced by linguistic and extralinguistic factors. Variationist research has reported that the use of verbal moods (the subjunctive and indicative) in Spanish is …
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Word-final /t/-release and linguistic style: An investigation of the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit
<p>Variationist sociolinguistics is more complex than meets the eye. There are many possible explanations as to why a person uses some linguistic form over another. This paper will compare the use of the word-final /t/-release variant in the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit who were …
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Focusing and diffusion in 'Cape Flats English': a sociophonetic study of three vowels
… speech of twenty speakers. Using the methods of variationist sociolinguistics, it aims to investigate what correlations can be drawn between these speakers. It examines whether the speech of the informants can be correlated along lines of social class, education, personal background and …
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The Sociophonetics of Vowel Height: A Study of Variation in Tehran Persian
This dissertation employs the variationist method to investigate vowel height variation (VHV) in Tehran Persian (TP). Viewing spoken TP as a continuum between Vernacular Tehran Persian (VTP) and Bookish Persian (BP), this study examines how VHV systematically differs between VTP and BP. …
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Conceptualizing Variation in Greek Exodus and Postclassical Greek
… these sentiments still abound, recent studies in variationist linguistics paint a more complex picture of language production. Specifically, variation in argument realization indicates that such intentional cross-linguistic lexical pairing was unlikely. In light of documentary texts, Greek …
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The Sociolinguistic Correlates of Dialect Contact and Koineisation in Medini Arabic: Lenition and Resyllabification
… within the framework of the quantitative variationist paradigm using Rbrul. The study investigates the correlation between two linguistic variables and the social variables of age, gender and community (urban and Bedouin). The dialects under investigation originate from two different …
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So You Think You Speak Canadian English: A Study of Language Regard and Lexical Variation of English-Speaking Canadians
… varieties of Canadian English, alongside a variationist study of 13 previously studied lexical variables and 10 new lexical variables. This research on perception complements previous work on production, to build a better understanding of sociolinguistic variation (see Kretzschmar, 2000 and …
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Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Hønefoss Dialect
… change. This study combines a quantitative variationist investigation of linguistic variation and change in East Norwegian cities Hønefoss and Oslo with experimental and qualitative studies of attitudinal data in Hønefoss. The aim of the study is to shed light on the role that standard …
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A Sociolinguistic Study in Saḥam, Northern Jordan
… and analysed within the framework of the Variationist Paradigm using Rbrul statistical package. The results show considerable variation and change in progress in the use of both variables, constrained by linguistic and social factors. As for the linguistic constraints, the innovative …
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A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Two Hōrāni Features in Sūf, Jordan
… a quantitative analysis within the framework of Variationist Theory, using the multiple logistic regression program Rbrul. Palatalization of /k/ is treated at two levels and thus involves two variables: 1. Phonological variable (k); the pool of data for this variable includes tokens of /k/ in the …
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A sociolinguistic study of the Tihami Qahtani dialect in Asir, Southern Arabia
… data are analysed within the framework of the variationist sociolinguistic paradigm and subjected to statistical testing using Rbrul. In addition to ‘linguistic environment’, ‘age’ and ‘gender’ as independent variables, the study analyses the effect of geographical location on the structure of …
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Sign language varieties of Indonesia: A linguistic and sociolinguistic investigation.
… approaches from linguistic typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics, contextualised by a sociohistorical account of the Indonesian sign community. The grammatical domains of completion and negation are analysed using a corpus of spontaneous data from two urban centres, Solo and …
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