Il dinamismo linguistico dell'italiano tra norma e adattamento ai mezzi di comunicazione by Fabio Ruggiano

“…In this dynamism the language changes, it abandons worn patterns and invents new ones, adapting itself to the world and adapting the world to itself. …”
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Functions of English vs. Other Languages in Sri Lankan Buddhist Rituals in the UK by Manel HERAT

“…In order to answer these research questions, I collected data by attending Sri Lankan Buddhist festivals and event in the UK and recording sermons and speeches used during these festivals to gather information regarding language use and language change. The study proved to be a worthy investigation, as unlike in Sri Lanka where only either Sinhala or Pali is sanctioned in Buddhist practice, in the UK, Sinhala is undergoing language shift and is being replaced by English during Buddhist sermons and other activities. …”
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Agency lost in the discourse of language endangerment: Nominalisation in discourse about South Estonian by Kadri Koreinik

“…I will demonstrate within the broad framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA) that material processes, which represent language change, shift or loss, are deactivated and deagentialised leaving no space for agency. …”
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On explaining stable dialect features: A real- and apparent-time study on the variable (en) in Austrian base dialects by Vergeiner Philip C., Wallner Dominik

“…Referring to the so-called “actuation problem”, stability and change are two equally important problems in every theory of language change. However, apart from some exceptions, up to now studies predominantly focused on change, while stable linguistic features have been rarely considered. …”
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On the Relationship of the Degrees of Correspondence of Dialects and Distances by Takuichiro Onishi

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They Talk <i>Muṯumuṯu</i>: Variable Elision of Tense Suffixes in Contemporary Pitjantjatjara by Sasha Wilmoth, Rebecca Defina, Debbie Loakes

“…It also appears to be a locus of language change, with young people extending elision to new contexts; resulting in a distinctive style of speech which speakers refer to as <i>muṯumuṯu</i> (‘short’ speech). …”
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Language for Specific Purposes Teacher Education: A Scoping Review by Mostafa Nazari

“…The categories included: action research, cognitions, practices, cognitions and practices, content and language teachers, professional development, genre, critical incidents, identity, and language change. It was found that the line of inquiry features a dispersed, intermittent empirical attention to teachers, with a wide array of topics existing within the nomenclature of teacher education being untouched in LSP. …”
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A történeti személynévföldrajz mint a nyelvföldrajz egyik kutatási területe I. by János N. Fodor

“…Name geographic methods in name studies     Spatial distribution of proper names – similarly to that of common nouns – is a natural consequence of language change; as a result, the geography of personal (especially family) names has recently become an important field of study in international and Hungarian Onomastics. …”
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Moroccan Arabic borrowed circumfix from Berber: investigating morphological categories in a language contact situation by Georgia Zellou

“…This case of a borrowed circumfix is examined as an instance which does not conform to traditional typologies of language change through contact patterns and how the boundaries between morphological categories (i.e. inflectional/derivational) are transformed in a language contact situation.…”
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Neural Decipherment via Minimum-Cost Flow: From Ugaritic to Linear B by Luo, Jiaming, Cao, Yuan, Barzilay, Regina

“…To compensate for the lack of strong supervision signal, our model design is informed by patterns in language change documented in historical linguistics. …”
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Static and dynamic approaches to vowel shifting in the Digital Archive of Southern Speech by Renwick, M, Stanley, J

“…Acoustic analysis of historical speech corpora offers perspective for modern sociophonetic studies, by providing a point of comparison to illuminate the development of modern regional variation, which will inform and enhance models of language change over time.…”

Morphosyntactic and morphophonological variation in Breton: a cross-generational perspective by Kennard, H

“…However, as the number of older speakers decreases, Breton seems likely to see more widespread language change.…”

Distinctive features: phonological underspecification in representation and processing by Lahiri, A, Reetz, H

“…We provide evidence from synchronic phonological analyses, language change, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic data.…”

Understanding the dynamics of English in the linguistic landscape of Guangzhou by Peng, Junhua, Mansor, Nor Shahila, Ang, Lay Hoon, Mohd Kasim, Zalina

“…It provides an important perspective for investigating the dynamics of social life and language change in given territories. Guangzhou, a significant commercial center in southern China, is renowned for its globalized development. …”

Language Practices on Internet Game Fora by Szymon Wach

“…Online discussion fora form important venues for promoting language change across the boundaries of time, space, and formal organization. …”
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Regional varieties and diachronic changes in Chinese political discourse by Renkui Hou, Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens

“…We also found that the same parameters can capture language changes between different periods of political speeches from the PRC. …”
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Le faus françeis d’Angleterre en tant que langue seconde ? Quelques phénomènes syntaxiques indicatifs by Yela Schauwecker

“…As a consequence, the observed phenomena should not be considered dialectal features of AF as a whole, or as language change characterizing AF in general, but rather as idiolectal features in a given author’s L2. …”
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Stylistic devices in social media discussions on linguistic topics by Spasić Jelena Lj., Spasić Nataša A., Danilović-Jeremić Jelena R.

“…Not surprisingly, the development and use of social media have led to language change. At the same time, opportunities have arisen for linguists to explore and analyze the linguo-stylistic characteristics of social media usage. …”
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Similarity of Symbol Frequency Distributions with Heavy Tails by Martin Gerlach, Francesc Font-Clos, Eduardo G. Altmann

“…We find that frequent words change more slowly than less frequent words and that α=2 provides the most robust measure to quantify language change.…”
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The Gender Dimension of Women’s Lingual Behaviorin Polylingual Families and Partnerships by Anastasiia Molotsiian, Volodymyr Shelukhin

“…The research finds that factors of language change are different in the case of Ukrainian-speaking and Russian-speaking informants. …”
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