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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"sociolinguistic variation"”.
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Language variation and contact phonetic and phonological aspects of Portuguese of Maputo city
… apply to Mozambique Portuguese learners and if sociolinguistic factors such as age, education, residence and sex, play a significant role in allophonic distribution and sociolinguistic variation in Portuguese in Mozambique, taking into account community-based patterns of use. The data used in …
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So You Think You Speak Canadian English: A Study of Language Regard and Lexical Variation of English-Speaking Canadians
… varieties of Canadian English, alongside a variationist study of 13 previously studied lexical variables and 10 new lexical variables. This research on perception complements previous work on production, to build a better understanding of sociolinguistic variation (see Kretzschmar, 2000 and …
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A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Two Hōrāni Features in Sūf, Jordan
This study investigates sociolinguistic variation in the traditional dialect of Sūf, a Hōrāni town in northern Jordan. Two variables are examined: (k): depalatalization of /k/; and (l): develarization of /l/, according to internal linguistic constrains and two external social factors: namely age …
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The numeral system of Japanese Sign Language from a cross-linguistic perspective
… with other sign languages; and, finally, to sociolinguistic variation. Data for JSL were collected, using various elicitation games, from a total of 37 participants from the Kanto and Kansai regions of Japan. Data for other signed languages were taken from the Sign Language Typology Project, …
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Ethnicity, social practice and phonetic variation in a Sheffield secondary school
… is an ethnographic study of phonetic variation and social practice in a multiethnic secondary school in Sheffield, UK. I analyse the use of phonetic variation by adolescents in this school with the aim of advancing recent debates surrounding indexicality, social meaning, and language …
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A sociophonetic investigation of ethnolinguistic differences in voice quality among young, South African English speakers
… By providing a description of voice quality variation, the research contributes towards a more complete account of sociolinguistic variation in South African English.
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A sociolinguistic study of a southern Iraqi dialect: fortition of the variants [j] and [ʧ].
… investigated in research on phonological variation and change, it has been rarely dealt with in the Iraqi context. My research investigates sociolinguistic variation and change in the dialect of the Mišlab tribe in Qalʿat Siker, (a south-Mesopotamian dialect), where the traditional …
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Linguistic Variation and Change in the Dialect of Ha’il, Saudi Arabia: Feminine Suffixes.
This study investigates sociolinguistic variation and change in the dialect of Ha’il city, a dialect that belongs to the Najdi type of dialects, especially Northern Najdi. Two traditional linguistic features of Ha’ili Arabic (HA) are examined: the realisation of the feminine ending (ah) and …
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From "y as plus personne qui parle" to "plus personne ne dit rien": The variable use of the negative particle ne in synchronous French chat.
This study analyzes negative particle variation (i.e., the variable presence or absence of the negative particle ne) in synchronous French chat discourse within a labovian-inspired framework. Selected morphosyntactic, lexical, and phonological constraints are considered. Multivariate analyses …