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Huanca-Quechua Dialectology
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A Study of Eastern Andalusian Dialectology: A Phonemic Description of the Syllable-Final Consonant System of the Dialect Spoken in Montejicar (Granada)
Concerning my second objective, never had all these processes been formally accounted for and showed to interact within the same framework. A combination of Feature Geometry, CV Phonology, and Moraic Phonology is used for their representation; thus contributing to the growing evidence in favor of a …
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A Statistical Method for Syntactic Dialectometry
… reliability by comparing its results to those of dialectology and phonological dialectometry on Swedish dialects, as well as evaluating variant parameter settings. The research questions of this dissertation are (1) whether a statistical measure of syntax for dialectometry will reproduce the …
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Northern English Dialects: A perceptual approach
Perceptual dialectology has the capacity to deliver a great many benefits to the study of language varieties. It also allows examination of the underlying factors in dialect use such as the ‘beliefs, attitudes and strategies’ (Preston, 1999: xxiii) which make up language users’ reactions to …
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Computer Simulation of Language Evolution
… introduces the basic terminology and results of dialectology and language change. Chapter 3 gives an overview of the simulation model and the details of implementation. Chapter 4 provides an analysis of the model’s parameters and discusses the results observable for the ‘basic’ implementation. …
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Kiezdeutsch: Perceptions Of A Metropolitan Dialect Of German
… I then performed a pilot study of perceptual dialectology folloby an open discussion. Although my sample size proved to be too small and limited to yield any statistically significant results, the data was regardless intriguing. This study focuses on the linguistic and social perceptions of …
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Focusing and diffusion in 'Cape Flats English': a sociophonetic study of three vowels
… wider fields of sociophonetics and the social dialectology of English in South Africa. The study looks at three vowel sets; GOOSE, BATH and KIT taken from Wells (1982). The study was designed to identify and attempt to explain potential differences in pronunciation amongst speakers in an …
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Perceptions of Parisian French: From Language Attitudes to Speech Perception
… then speak to the potential of a field of urban dialectology for studying contexts in which socio-geographic perception shapes language attitudes and, potentially, speech perception. Additionally, it is argued that these dissertation studies test a cognitive linguistic hypothesis on how social …
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The effect of borders on the linguistic production and perception of regional identity in Louisville, Kentucky
… and lexical variables used in traditional dialectology. Louisville, Kentucky is considered as a case study for examining how dialect and regional borders in the United States impact speakers‟ linguistic acts of identity, especially the production and perception of such identities. According …
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The Jewish Arabic Dialect of Gabes (Southern Tunisia): Phonology, Morphology, Syntax
… immediate challenges posed by Maghrebi Arabic dialectology. In contradistinction to the eastern branch of Arabic, many North-African dialects have not received a thorough linguistic description, particularly those spoken outside of large, historic towns. Even less studied are Jewish dialects, …
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Gay American English: Language Attitudes, Language Perceptions, and Gay Men's Discourses of Connectedness to Family, Lgbtq Networks, and the American South
… Building on language attitude research in folk dialectology and social psychology, I use both quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyze interview data, an attitude and perception study, and two focus groups. I also adapt methodologies from social network theory to examine how gay men's …
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A Diachronic Analysis of Western Armenian Verbal Morphology
… methodology (Chapter 1) is based on comparative dialectology (Chapter 2), theoretical diachronic morphology, and computational modeling. This project delves into classifications based on geography, morphology, and phonetics, elucidating the diverse criteria employed to differentiate and …
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Tratado juridico: Edici on critica y estudio del manuscrito
… possible further studies in sociology, history, dialectology, comparative religion, law, and art and folklore.
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To bry or not to bry: the social meanings of Afrikaans rhotic variation in the South Cape
… approaches to 'place as location' (traditional dialectology and sociolinguistics) and 'place as meaning' (ethnography and linguistic anthropology) to explore the relationship between geographical place, local social meanings and linguistic variation. Theoretically, I make use of the concept of …
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A description of the linguistic characteristics of the careful speech of recent high school graduates in entry-level positions of job categories of large employment in selected counties of Southwest Virginia
Following the methodology of dialectology, this study was designed to investigate certain linguistic features of careful speech in a limited number of relatively homogeneous counties, each represented by an informant belonging to a certain age and social class, i.e., a 1975 high school graduate …
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Os astros no corpus do projeto ALiB: revisitando os falares de nascentes
… which is a nationwide attempt in the area of Dialectology and whose method is pluridimensional geolinguistics, which is supported by a basic tripod, defined as a network of points, informants and questionnaires. In this sense, for the realization of this study, a network of points composed of …
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A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective
… Minor Greek dialects as well as to Modern Greek dialectology more generally, and open a fresh round of discussion on the origin and development of other innovations attested in these dialects that are considered by historical linguists and Modern Greek dialectologists to be untypically Greek or …
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A study of Cappadocian Greek nominal morphology from a diachronic and dialectological perspective
… Minor Greek dialects as well as to Modern Greek dialectology more generally, and open a fresh round of discussion on the origin and development of other innovations attested in these dialects that are considered by historical linguists and Modern Greek dialectologists to be untypically Greek or …
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Tense and mood variation in Spanish nominal subordinates: The case of Peruvian varieties
… features that play an important role in Spanish dialectology and the configuration of Peruvian varieties in particular. First, variation in tense is analyzed in Spanish nominal subordinate clauses with verb types that require subordinate verbs in subjunctive mood (e.g. quiero que vengas “I want …
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The MOAN-MOWN and MOAN-GOOSE mergers in Lowestoft English: Perception and production
This dissertation presents a sociophonetic analysis of vowel phonemes descended from Middle English /ɔ:/ and /ɔu/ (MOAN-MOWN) in Lowestoft English, the East Anglian variety spoken in the UK’s easternmost town. These phonemes started to merge under a single GOAT vowel in the vast majority of English …
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