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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"contact language"”.
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"C'est either que tu parles francais, c'est either que tu parles anglais": A cognitive approach to Chiac as a contact language
… urban environment and their attitudes toward the languages spoken in Moncton resulted in speakers sharing a sense of identity and wanting to distinguish themselves from other social groups. Within the framework of Cognitive Grammar (CG) I model the emergence of Chiac due to these social factors. …
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Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education
This study seeks to investigate Language variation in the Botswana speech community and its impact on children's education. The study is premised on the assumption that the learner's non-standard language from the home environment is not accommodated in the learning environment. The language used …
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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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Young Saudis' Attitudes toward Saudi Pidgin Arabic
… Pidgin Arabic (SPA), an Arabic-Asian pidgin language. Though SPA is widely used among foreign workers and between employers and their foreign workers, little is known about the specific attitudes of the young Saudi generation toward this stigmatized contact language (Bakir, 2010), as compared …
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'We know them, but we don't know them': a grounded theory approach to exploring host students' perspectives on intercultural contact in an Irish university
… body and their experiences of intercultural contact on campus, including the factors which inform such contact. Using a grounded theory approach, 24 in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 2nd year undergraduate students from three courses. The data were rigorously analysed …
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Unifying Optional Wh-movement
… This thesis argues that having a wh-movement language does not strictly entail that wh-phrases appear fronted in surface syntax. Essentially, the formal optionality of wh-movement is predicted to fall out via the multiple satisfaction of the EPP. Wh-movement languages all possess equally …
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THE NASALIZATION OF THE HAITIAN CREOLE DETERMINER LA IN NON-NASAL CONTEXTS: A VARIATIONIST SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY
This study focuses on the nasalization of the postposed determiner /la/ (LÃ) after an oral segment (e.g. chat la/lã [ʃatla/lã] ‘the cat’, and peyi a/an [pejija/ã), a linguistic environment where the nasal variants generally do not occur. In his 1991 pilot study, Valdman demonstrated that there was …
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On the issues of language contact and language shift in Tok Pisin - focusing on two "non-standard" varieties: highlands pidgin and anglicised pidgin.
Tok Pisin is the most prevailing common language in Papua New Guinea. It was originally an English lexifier pidgin language and has developed as the virtual universal lingua franca in this multilingual country where over 850 indigenous languages are spoken today (Nekitel 1998). The term Tok Pisin …
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Continuidad y cambio en los condicionantes lingüísticos y socio-demográficos del uso del pronombre sujeto en el español de la primera generación en Nueva York
… to NYC and the level of English proficiency. The language contact hypothesis is only valid for the informants who have been in the city for the longest time and have been more exposed to the contact language. The internal variables that have greater prediction in the use of the pronoun are …
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Gender variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
… history of pidgins and creoles, many documented contact languages are European-based ones because they arose as a direct result of European colonial expansion between the sixteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, contact languages are developing entirely outside the …
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Linguistic Landscapes – Eine Untersuchung zur Repräsentation von visueller Mehrsprachigkeit in Berliner Krankenhäusern
Die empirische Studie untersucht, inwieweit die gesellschaftliche Mehrsprachigkeit in Berlin in den verschiedenen Beschilderungstypen der Berliner Krankenhäuser vertreten ist. Damit fügt sich die Arbeit thematisch in die Untersuchung von "Sprachlandschaften" ein, einem neu entstehenden …
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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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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 …