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Showing 1 to 20 of 351 for “"dialect"”.
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Dialect Variation and Change in Eastern Arabia: Al-Ahsa Dialect
… investigation of the Al-Ahsa urban dialect (AU) in eastern Arabia, a dialect that belongs to the Najdi type of dialects. The focus of this investigation is on the dialect spoken in the urban centres of Al-Ahsa (Hofuf and Mubarraz). Two salient vocalic features of AU dialect are …
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The Hangzhou dialect
This dissertation is a description of the dialect of Hangzhou, including phonology, grammar, and lexicon. The history and classification of the dialect are also discussed. The data upon which the description is based was compiled during fieldwork with native speakers in Hangzhou in 1988-89 and …
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The Teenage Dialect
This study investigated teenage language and its functions. More specifically, after conducting a data analysis which revealed the most common features of “teen speak,” the features were dissected for their usage patterns and significance within the realm of adolescent life and development. The …
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Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Hønefoss Dialect
… is a sociolinguistic investigation of regional dialect levelling and the role that standardised language plays for this particular type of dialect change. This study combines a quantitative variationist investigation of linguistic variation and change in East Norwegian cities Hønefoss and Oslo …
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An American Actor's Dialect
… quo of so called 'standard speech'. The two dialects that I have studied in depth are Edith Skinner's 'American Classical Stage Standard' and Kenneth Crannell's 'Career Speech'. I have found something lacking in both the Skinner dialect and Crannell's 'Career Speech'. Yet, I believe that each …
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Huck Finn's Literary Dialect
… wanted the reader to believe that the numerous dialects represented in Adventures in Huckleberry Finn were scientifically accurate. Instead, an examination of Huck Finn's speech in chapter one revealed that Twain employed a literary dialect, not a scientific dialect. Aspects of Huck's literary …
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British Dialect for the American Stage
… between the three categories of British dialect for the stage: Received Pronunciation, Cockney, and Estuary. This involves the exploration of the oral posture, resonance point, sound changes, rhythm and melody, and grammatical and lexical changes of each. This also includes the …
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Eastern Shona : a comparative dialect study
… of comparable linguistic units from the dialects. These units are abstracted at various levels of analysis and unit categories include phonemes, tonemes, morphophonemes, tonomorphemes and morphemes. Each unit category is described in relation to the general structural framework of the …
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The nineteenth-century English dialect novel
… politics and practices of incorporating regional dialects into the nineteenth-century English novel form. After roughly 1850, there is a distinct expansion of publications written in dialect in England. This is owing to both a peak in academic interest in comparative philology and publishers’ …
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The Low German Dialect of Concordia, Missouri
… of interest recently in various German dialects present in many regions of the United States has led to the gathering of data in many small towns throughout the Midwest whose dialects and dialect speakers will have died out within the next decade. With this realization, research efforts …
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The Syntax of the Dialect of Bari
… domains of Barese, an upper southern Italian dialect of Puglia. Chapter 2 analyses pragmatically unmarked and marked sentential word orders in Barese. Barese is a null-subject language whose unmarked transitive word order is (S)VO, in which syntactic constituents can be displaced in accordance …
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Dialect Divergence and Identity in Basque Spanish
The study concludes different results for each of the linguistic variables. The extralinguistic factors 'area of residence', 'parental origin', 'language spoken at home' and 'relative exposure to Basque' have an effect on the appearance of the Basque variant [aw], for the /-ado/ variable. In the …
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The morphophonemics of the Idaacha dialect of Yoruba
This study describes the grammar of the Idaacha dialect of Yoruba in the areas ofphonology and morphophonemics within the framework of generative phonology and the autosegmental approach. In particular, it builds upon Kouyomou's (1986) major work, Phonologie de la langue Idaasha, and argues that …
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Framing Standard and Dialect in Black Women's Novels
Framing Standard and Dialect in Black Women's Novels explores how Black women writers engage with their image in dominant Western discourse. Deliberately objectified, their discursive identities have been underwritten and overlooked. Using Sylvia Wynter's argument that the emergence of Black women …
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The Gaelic dialect of Urris, Inishowen, Co. Donegal
… material for his survey of the Scotch-Irish dialects of Ulster, invited me to accompany him on a working-trip to Inishowen. His itinerary took us as far as the district of Urris in the extreme northwest comer of the peninsula. The isolated nature of the area suggested the possible existence …
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Kiezdeutsch: Perceptions Of A Metropolitan Dialect Of German
… this thesis, I explain perceptions of the German dialect Kiezdeutsch. The basis for the research came from four recorded interviews of male and female Kiezdeutsch speakers. I used the Kiezdeutsch recordings to perform research at the University of Mississippi by interviewing nine different German …
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Studies in the dialect materials of medieval Herefordshire
This thesis is an investigation into the medieval dialect of the pre-1974 county of Herefordshire. The main source materials consist of a group of literary texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, localised in the Herefordshire area by linguistic means. The study builds on the methodology …
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A Discourse-Based Grammar of Baule: The Kode Dialect
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The Role of Dialect Words in Children’s Social Decisions
… study aimed to determine whether the presence of dialect-specific vocabulary enhances young children’s ability to categorize speakers. Participants completed four training trials in which they were familiarized with photos of two children: one of whom used American English labels for test objects …
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