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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"variationist sociolinguistics"”.
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Word-final /t/-release and linguistic style: An investigation of the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit
<p>Variationist sociolinguistics is more complex than meets the eye. There are many possible explanations as to why a person uses some linguistic form over another. This paper will compare the use of the word-final /t/-release variant in the speech of two Jewish women from metro Detroit who were …
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Focusing and diffusion in 'Cape Flats English': a sociophonetic study of three vowels
… speech of twenty speakers. Using the methods of variationist sociolinguistics, it aims to investigate what correlations can be drawn between these speakers. It examines whether the speech of the informants can be correlated along lines of social class, education, personal background and …
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Sign language varieties of Indonesia: A linguistic and sociolinguistic investigation.
… approaches from linguistic typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics, contextualised by a sociohistorical account of the Indonesian sign community. The grammatical domains of completion and negation are analysed using a corpus of spontaneous data from two urban centres, Solo and …
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Variation in a Rural African Community
… (z) in Chasu, along lines established in Western variationist sociolinguistics. In order to obtain a valuable representative sample of data, the 'Labovian' model of the sociolinguistic interview incorporating narratives of personal experience was used. Other complementary techniques such as …
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Regional variation of mood use in Spanish: A comparison among three Spanish-speaking regions
The current investigation is framed within variationist sociolinguistics, an area of study that examines how language varies and is influenced by linguistic and extralinguistic factors. Variationist research has reported that the use of verbal moods (the subjunctive and indicative) in Spanish is …
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Factores lingüísticos y no-lingüísticos en el contacto entre el papiamento y el español en Aruba
… uses techniques and strategies employed in variationist sociolinguistics, the research questions that guide this project deviate from the statistical analysis that structure Labovian sociolinguistic research. The frequency-based analysis used in this dissertation determined that the …
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Exploring the confluence of confianza and national identity in Honduran voseo: a sociopragmatic analysis
… by various subfields of linguistics, including variationist sociolinguistics, politeness research, and sociocultural linguistics. Accordingly, data were gathered through two main research tasks, a written sociolinguistic questionnaire and group semi-directed interviews, from a sample of native …
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A Comparative Variationist Analysis of Phonetic Variation and Change in Toronto Heritage Tagalog
… This dissertation adopts a comparative variationist approach and develops a framework for examining variable patterns of bilingual sound production and the interplay between contact-, internal-, and identity-based processes underlying variation and change. Using Tagalog spontaneous …
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Continuidad y cambio en los condicionantes lingüísticos y socio-demográficos del uso del pronombre sujeto en el español de la primera generación en Nueva York
… in the country?</p> <p>This dissertation is a variationist study of Spanish in New York City that seeks to explore if the grammar of the newcomers and that of the established immigrants, who together make up the first generation, is modified like the grammar of the second generation speakers …