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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"dialectal variation"”.
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Pronouns of address in informal contexts: a comparison of two dialects of Colombian Spanish
… forms of address in Modern Spanish is subject to dialectal variation. Many Latin American varieties of Spanish, i.e. Costa Rican, Argentinean, Chilean, among others, display a tripartite system of second person pronouns comprised of tú, usted and vos. The case of Colombian Spanish is particularly …
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Prefixation and Reduplication in Malay: An Optimality-Theoretical Account.
… different co-phonology. This study also examines dialectal variation, comparing SM with three nonstandard dialects with respect to prefixation. The analysis discovers some significant facts about the language. Since both voiceless/voiced obstruents undergo nasal substitution, the *NC constraint …
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The evolution of the genitive noun phrase in early Middle English
… early Middle English writing shows great dialectal variation, and each dialect, often each scribe, has a unique genitive system. It is through these individual "micro-systems" that we can see the details of the development of the genitive noun phrase, details which show that the genitive …
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Voice, Case and the External Argument: The perspective from Urdu
… the course of the dissertation, I also highlight dialectal differences between Hindi and Urdu, and how these might be captured formally. The syntactic literature generally uses the umbrella term 'Hindi-Urdu', with little to no consideration of dialectal differences. Distinguishing between Hindi …
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Variación Sintáctico-Semántica Del Artículo Definido en Sintagmas Nominales en El Español De Hispanohablantes De Herencia
… contribuye a la configuración de la variación dialectal que existe en comunidades bilingües de inglés y español, cuyos hablantes, como resultado de su bilingüismo, poseen una gramática diferente a los monolingües. ABSTRACT The Hispanic community in the United States experiences linguistic …
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Variability in cross-dialectal production and perception of contrasting phonemes: the case of the alveolar-retroflex contrast in Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin
… the alveolar-retroflex contrast, leading to variation in Taiwan Mandarin, a consistent alveolar-retroflex distinction is described for Beijing Mandarin in the literature on Mandarin phonology. With a series of map tasks, this dissertation examines whether the production of alveolar-retroflex …