Behind the short story : from first to final draft / by Van Cleave, Ryan G., 1972-, Pierce, Todd James, 1965-

Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship : An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics / by Hock, Hans Henrich, author, Joseph, Brian D., author

“…And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages.…”

Openings of telephone conversations in Philippine English by Ariane Macalinga Borlongan, Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales

“…The openings documented in ICE-PH range from strict observants of Schegloff’s (1972, 1979, 1986) four core opening sequences in American English to complete deviations from the purported patterns in the superstrate variety.…”
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A corpus-based study of the ADJ-looking adjectivization in English by Guo Man, He Qingshun

“…The study based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) finds that ADJ-looking adjectivizations are mode and register sensitive but not discipline sensitive. …”
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Portraying accent stereotyping by second language speakers. by Yizhou Lan, Tongtong Xie, Albert Lee

“…In Experiment 1, participants rated short audio recordings of L2 learner' and Standard American English speech; in Experiment 2, they did the same in a more detailed word-in-sentence accent rating task. …”
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L’interro-négative à l’oral en anglais contemporain : enjeux argumentatifs et pragmatiques by Pauline Levillain

“…This paper endeavours to open new perspectives on the analysis of negative interrogatives in spoken American English by considering what is at stake pragmatically and as far as argumentation is concerned in “discourse-in-interaction” after the French researcher Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2005). …”
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Siri, you've changed! Acoustic properties and racialized judgments of voice assistants by Nicole Holliday

“…In order to test evaluations of the four voices, 485 American English listeners heard each Siri voice reading the Rainbow Passage, via online survey conducted on Qualtrics. …”
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Comparing alignment toward American, British, and Indian English text-to-speech (TTS) voices: influence of social attitudes and talker guise by Nicole Dodd, Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou

“…Conversely, speakers rate the American English voices as less human-like and diverge from them. …”
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Modification as a linguistic ‘relationship’: A just so problem in Functional Discourse Grammar by Wolde Elnora ten, Schwaiger Thomas

“…Using data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the Corpus of Historical American English, we argue that the different meanings of just so raise a number of issues related to the analysis of modification in FDG, namely the status and function of the modifier just in the constructions under discussion and the concomitant representation of so. …”
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Caractérisation et délimitation de la catégorie des libfixes en anglais by Caroline Marty

“…The data is extracted from the English Web Corpus 2015 (Sketch Engine), the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA). …”
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Negasi Ganda sebagai Salah Satu Karakteristik dari Bahasa Inggris yang Digunakan Huckleberry Finn di dalam novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by , RULY INDRA DARMAWAN, , Dra. Ni Gusti Ayu Roselani, M. A.

“…Furthermore, there are 3 characteristics that make the data different from Standard American English which are the use of negative to be, the use of n-word no instead of using any,and the use of past participle instead of simple form in the negative sentence of simple present tense.…”

Linguistic and speech character of speech etiquette means by A A Batalov

“…The article investigates into the problems of speech etiquette means functions, the role of speech etiquette means in communication, their variativeness in British and American English.…”
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LONGMAN : Collocations Dictionary and Thesaurus / by Cleveland-Marwick, Karen, editor, Hollingworth, Lucy, editor, Manning, Elizabeth, editor, Murphy, Michael, editor, Sargeant, Howard, editor, Stark, Martin, editor, Wedgeworth, Laura, editor

“…All collocations illustrated with corpus examples Notes on formality and grammar ensure that you produce natural and accurate English every time Warning notes to highlight wrong collocations that are frequently used by learners of English Covers British and American English Integrated thesaurus demonstrating how closely related synonyms are differentiated through collocation Error notes for commonly misused collocations NEW Academic Collocations List - the most frequent collocations used in academic English Inclusion of the Academic Collocations List - the most frequent 2500 collocations from academic texts. …”

Speech coding effects on recognition accuracy for TIMIT by Nachiappan, Nachiappan, Ahmad, Abdul Manan

“…TIMIT is a corpus of phonemically and lexically transcribed speech of American English speakers of different sexes and dialects. …”

A Corpus-Based Probe into Context Type, Social Power, and Speaker Status of Sympathy, Grief, and Condolence Collocational Patterns in American Spoken English Discourse by Reza Bagheri Nevisi, Sanaz Inanlou

“…This study sought to investigate the most frequent words and expressions pertaining to 'Condolence' and 'Sympathy' and also which words and expressions co-occurred with such expressions in spoken American English discourse in the different contexts to know how and when to use grief-related expressions. …”
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Multiword units and synonymy: interface between collocations, colligations, and semantic prosody by Supakorn Phoocharoensil

“…The study consulted the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), i.e. the largest corpus representing American English (Davies, 2020), for the distribution of the target synonyms across genres and the top-20 noun collocates the MI-score of which is 3 or above. …”
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“Diversity’s good unless you have a Southern accent, then you’re a hick”: Self-evaluation, linguistic insecurity and symbolic domination in Middle Tennessee by Marc-Philippe Brunet

“…The linguistic variety spoken in the south of the United States (Southern American English, hereafter SAE), is a well-documented field of investigation (Farington et al., 2018; Feagin, 2018; Fridland, 2003, 2008; Labov et al., 2006; Nunnally & Bailey, 2018; Reed, 2014). …”
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Thematic Composition and Idiom Variation by Cserép Attila

“…The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) has been studied to retrieve variant forms of semantically decomposable idioms that have no thematic composition for the purpose of determining whether thematic composition is a necessary criterion for idiom variation as claimed by Horn (2003). …”
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Editorial by Lauren Hall-Lew

“…The first two focus on language and race, racism, and African American English; the other three are all about lifespan change and second language/dialect acquisition.…”
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It's Like, 'What's Happening in the Evolution of Like?': A Theory of Grammaticalization by Meehan, Teresa

“…In standard American English, the word like has several senses associated with it, the earliest of which dates back to the 14th century according to the OED. …”
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