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New speakers versus old speakers. O akwizycji języka niemieckiego dwóch pokoleń na Mazurach
Published 2022-05-01“…The members of both groups were born in Masuria, which was part of East Prussia before World War II, and was incorporated into Poland after 1945. The language change in that territory has had an important effect on the acquisition process of the Polish and the German languages, and on the language biographies of the speakers. …”
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A phono-ethnic story of Nigerian English: As told by high vowels
Published 2019-01-01“…Framed by theories of L2 speech and evolutionary approaches to language change, sociophonetic procedures are deployed to measure the high front and back vowels in Ebira English, as well as assess the trajectory of sociolinguistic variation within the variety. …”
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General Locative Marking in Martinican Creole (Matinitjè): A Case Study in Grammatical Economy
Published 2020-01-01“…MQ thus appears as a good illustration of the hybrid nature of Creole grammars (Mufwene 2001, 2010; Aboh 2015), involving the recombination of European and Non-European features under general laws of language change and grammatical economy.…”
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Hybrid Hashtags: #YouKnowYoureAKiwiWhen Your Tweet Contains Māori and English
Published 2020-04-01“…Our work has implications for language change and the study of loanwords (we argue that hybrid hashtags can be linked to loanword entrenchment), and for the study of language on social media (we challenge proposals of hashtags as “words,” and show that hashtags have a dual discourse role: a micro-function within the immediate linguistic context in which they occur and a macro-function within the tweet as a whole).…”
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The Cologne dialect: Development trends
Published 2022-03-01“…Notably, this system is not stable, it constantly changes under the influence of the social, technical, cultural, historical and other factors. The research on language change often disregards the dialect material featuring prominently in the historical context of linguistics. …”
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Interview with Prof. Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Published 2015-06-01“…Dasher), “Lexicalization and Language Change” (2005, with Laurel J. Brinton), “Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization” (2010, co-edited with Graeme Trousdale), and “The Oxford Handbook of the History of English” (2012, with Terttu Nevalainen). …”
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Adaptive Linguistic Change and Ecolinguistic Structures: Some processes of language dynamics within an Algerian Dialect
Published 2008-12-01“…Henceforth, linguistic change is the product of a dynamic in the social fabric that is reflected in sociolinguistic variation and language change stances. The transitional patterns of the lexical items under study correlate most closely with changes in community type. …”
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Quantifying Cognitive Factors in Lexical Decline
Published 2021-01-01“… AbstractWe adopt an evolutionary view on language change in which cognitive factors (in addition to social ones) affect the fitness of words and their success in the linguistic ecosystem. …”
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Reduction of Survey Sites in Dialectology: A New Methodology Based on Clustering
Published 2021-05-01“…Many language change studies aim for a partial revisitation, i.e., selecting survey sites from previous dialect studies. …”
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Die Entwicklungslogik der nominalen Determinativkomposition im Deutschen – verstanden als Grammatikalisierung
Published 2016-08-01“…Additionally, the paper provides morpho-syntactical prospects for further theoretical and empirical research on historical morphology, also by conceiving word-internal language change as an integral part of the dynamics of morpho-syntactic structuring.…”
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The status of new English loanwords in the language of secondary school students
Published 2020-01-01“…Language change is an important characteristic of any language, and its manifestations are most obvious in the structure and content of the lexicon. …”
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The change in Singlish : investigating the effects of a changing language ecology on the Singlish lexicon through Singapore-produced media
Published 2020“…However, while many have researched its status and/or grammatical and phonological aspects, rare are the studies done on its varied lexicon or the language change that might have affected it. Tan (2017) theorises that Singlish’s form and lexicon are formed of and governed by the languages within Singapore’s linguistic ecology and their degree of prominence. …”
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The statistical analysis of acoustic phonetic data: exploring differences between spoken Romance languages
Published 2018“…However, it is more difficult to analyse language change from an acoustic point of view, although this is usually the dominant mode of transmission. …”
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The Cultural Outcomes of Social Movements: A Computational Linguistics Approach
Published 2021-11-01“…This paper addresses the potential for dealing with movements and culture as mani-fested in symbols, public discourse, narratives, and rhetoric and makes two contributions: It links the social movement literature studying culture through language with Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for systematic and comprehensive cultural analysis; and introduces a state-of the-art method which pro-vides a better understanding of language change and linguistic influence given the capacity of computa-tional analyses to process large volumes of data for multiple actors and varied data sources during long pe-riods of time. …”
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A proposal about the origin of the indo-european locative plural
Published 2005-12-01“…This methodology is largely an aspect of what has come to be known as "grammati calization theory," which, according to Heine (2003: 575), is really "neither a theory of language nor of language change; its goal is to describe grammaticalization, that is, the way grammatical forms arise and develop through space and time, and to explain why they are structured the way they are." …”
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Investigating the Social Representations of Contagious Diseases in the 19th and 20th Centuries: A Corpus-based Analysis of Cholera, Measles, and Plague in American Historical Texts
Published 2020-05-01“…The results indicated that language change represented the events taken place in the society. …”
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Gli italiani regionali. Atteggiamenti linguistici verso le varietà geografiche dell’italiano
Published 2016-09-01“…It starts with an overview of existing literature on language attitudes, with a special focus on the role of attitudes in standard language change in Italy. Recently, scholars have argued that standardization dynamics can only be understood if one investigates the language attitudes toward the standard language and its varieties. …”
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Investigating the Factors of Sustainability of Arabic Words in Kurmanji Kurdish: A Case Study of the Kurds of Urmia and North West Azerbaijan
Published 2022-09-01“…As a social phenomenon, language change is a normal and inevitable process whose speed hinges upon a myriad of intra-lingual and extra-lingual factors. …”
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The Interrelationship between Age and Education and the Usage of Shirazi Vocabulary Items
Published 2011-10-01“…Among these factors a special importance can be placed on age due to the role it plays in revealing different patterns of language use, such as the age-grading pattern, the normal pattern of age differentiation and the important patterns of language change which can inform us about the emergence of a linguistic form or the death of some old form. …”
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