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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"contact linguistics"”.
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Garifuna: the birth and rise of an identity through contact langugage and contact culture
… languages as a result of a series of language contact events beginning around the 16th or 17th century in the Lesser Antillean islands of the Caribbean. The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss the linguistic origins of the Garífuna language and give a chronological account of its history …
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Differential object marking in Basque: grammaticalization, attitudes and ideological representations
… has been paid to the role that language contact plays in the emergence of DOM or the processes that lead to its variable use in contact settings. Basque DOM has recently been characterized as the product of intense contact with Basque-Spanish leísmo (Austin, 2006), but its variable use …
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Language and Identity among Adolescent Heritage Spanish Students
… to the fields of bilingualism, languages in contact and the developing theory of Heritage Language Acquisition are addressed in the concluding remarks.
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A look into the bilingual grammar through the study of Basque-Spanish null objects and Basque differential object marking
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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A case study in language contact : English, Kiswahili and Luhyia amongst the Luhyia people of Kenya
… some ground work in the study of Luhyia socio-linguistics. A fair amount of research on indigenous forms of English has been conducted in South Africa as well as West Africa. According to Schmied (1991), Nigeria is covered by several books and articles on English, but other areas of Africa are …
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Investigating the role of an indigenised variety of English in the acquisitional and sociolinguistic contexts of the Malaysian ecology
The realm of New Englishes offers enriching avenues to explore the interplay between language acquisition and sociolinguistic influences in linguistically diverse ecologies. Yet research into this interdisciplinary arena remains lacking. Accordingly, this thesis addresses this paradigm gap by …
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Spanish prosody on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border: Cross-generational and Social Variation
… of durational metrics like PVI to describe contact varieties. In this regard, younger generations consistently align more closely with MS durational values, reflecting the expected generational shift. Finally, although results indicate MS is overall a faster-paced language, RS reaches higher …