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Author : Alicia Beckford Wassink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015047743425
Author : Geneviève Escure,Armin Schwegler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252491
This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists' current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax. Some of the contributions make use of phonological analysis while others study language development from the point of view of acquisition. A few papers examine discourse strategies and style, or broader issues of social and ethnic identity. While this array of topics and perspectives is reflective of the diversity of the field, there is also much common ground in that all of the papers adduce solid data corpora to support their analyses. The range of languages analyzed spans the planet, as approximately twenty contact varieties are studied in this volume.
Author : Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker,Bradley McDonnell,Eve Koller,Lauren B. Collister
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262045261
A guide to principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data, especially digital data. "Doing language science" depends on collecting, transcribing, annotating, analyzing, storing, and sharing linguistic research data. This volume offers a guide to linguistic data management, engaging with current trends toward the transformation of linguistics into a more data-driven and reproducible scientific endeavor. It offers both principles and methods, presenting the conceptual foundations of linguistic data management and a series of case studies, each of which demonstrates a concrete application of abstract principles in a current practice. In part 1, contributors bring together knowledge from information science, archiving, and data stewardship relevant to linguistic data management. Topics covered include implementation principles, archiving data, finding and using datasets, and the valuation of time and effort involved in data management. Part 2 presents snapshots of practices across various subfields, with each chapter presenting a unique data management project with generalizable guidance for researchers. The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management is an essential addition to the toolkit of every linguist, guiding researchers toward making their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
Author : B. Anderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230582422
This work marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes how internal and external factors in phonological change differ and demonstrates how these two forces interact to structure the phonological systems of Appalachian and African American Southern Migrant speakers in the Detroit, Michigan area.
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107051577
The first edited volume to document and analyse early audio recordings of the English language.
Author : Véronique Lacoste
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274625
This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an important challenge is how to efficiently account for language learning mechanisms and use. To date, this book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary look into phonological and phonetic variation observed in primary school in Jamaica, that is from the perspective of classic variationist and quantitative sociolinguistics and a usage-based model. Both frameworks function as explanatory for the children’s learning of phono-stylistic variation, which they encounter in their immediate linguistic environment, i.e. most often through their teachers’ speech. This book is intended for sociolinguists interested in child language variation, linguists working on formal aspects of the languages of the Caribbean, applied linguists concerned with the teaching and learning of second language phonology, and any researchers interested in applying variationist and quantitative methods to classroom second language learning.
Author : Lars Hinrichs,Joseph T. Farquharson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287397
The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has shaped sociolinguistics far beyond creole settings. This volume collects current work in the field and focuses on methodological and theoretical innovations that continue, expand, and update the dialog between Caribbean variation studies and general sociolinguistics.
Author : James N. Stanford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190625672
For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the development of American English, and "New England accents" are very well known in the popular imagination. While other projects have studied various dialect regions of New England, this is the first large-scale academic project since the 1930s to focus specifically on New England English as a whole. In New England English, James N. Stanford presents new variationist sociolinguistic research covering all six New England states, with detailed geographic, acoustic phonetic, and statistical analyses of recently collected data from over 1,600 New Englanders. Stanford and his team of Dartmouth students built this dataset over 8 years of face-to-face fieldwork and online audio recordings and questionnaires. Using acoustic phonetics, computational processing, and dialect maps, the book systematically documents major traditional New England dialect features and their current usage in terms of geography, age, gender, ethnicity, social class, and other factors. This dataset is interpreted in terms of William Labov's outward orientation of the language faculty, dialect levelling, convergence and divergence, and "Hub social geometry." The result is a wide-ranging empirical analysis and theoretical overview of this influential English dialect region.
Author : Sun-Ah Jun
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199567300
This text illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through descriptions of the intonation and the prosodic structure of 13 typologically different languages based on the same theoretical framework and the transcription system of prosody known as Tones and Break Indices (ToBI).
Author : Cecelia Cutler,Zvjezdana Vrzić,Philipp Angermeyer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265449
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in language contact situations. John Victor Singler’s body of work, a model of what such a research paradigm should look like, strikes a careful balance between sociohistorical and linguistic analysis. The case studies in this volume present investigations into the sociohistorical matrix of language contact and critical insights into the sociolinguistic consequences of language contact within Africa and the African Diaspora. Additionally, they contribute to ongoing debates about pidgin/creole genesis and language contact by examining and comparing analyses and linguistic outcomes of particular sociohistorical and cultural contexts, and considering less-studied factors such as speaker agency and identity in the emergence, nativization, and stabilization of contact varieties.
Author : Eugene Green,Charles F. Meyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394917
Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations. The book's chapters supply descriptions of Jamaican English in Toronto, English as an L2 in a South African mining township, Chinese and English contact in Singapore, unexpected, emergent variants in Canadian English, and innovations in the English of West Virginia. Further, the book offers some perspective on internet English as well as on abiding uniformities in the lexicon and grammar of standard varieties. In the analyses of this heterogeneous growth such considerations as speakers' sociolinguistic profiles, phonological, morpho-syntactic, and lexical variables, frequencies, and typological patterns provide ample insight in the current status of English both in oral and electronic communities. The opening chapter presents a theoretical framework that argues for linguistic typology as conceptually resourceful in accommodating techniques of analysis and in distinguishing the wide arrays of English found throughout the globe. One clear function for Faces of English is that of a catalyst: to spur studies of diversities in English (and in other languages), to suggest approaches to adapt, to invite counterargument and developments in analysis.
Author : Rocky Ricardo Meade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Creole dialects, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110486185
Author : Glenn Alan Akers
Publisher : Karoma Publishers, Incorporated
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015001689333
Author : G. Alison Irvine-Sobers
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101146
An ability to speak Jamaican Standard English is the stated requirement for any managerial or frontline position in corporate Jamaica. This research looks at the phonological variation that occurs in the formal speech of this type of employee, and focuses on the specific cohort chosen to represent Jamaica in interactions with local and international clients. The variation that does emerge, shows both the presence of some features traditionally characterized as Creole and a clear avoidance of other features found in basilectal and mesolectal Jamaican. Some phonological items are prerequisites for “good English” - variables that define the user as someone who speaks English - even if other Creole variants are present. The ideologies of language and language use that Jamaican speakers hold about “good English” clearly reflect the centuries-old coexistence of English and Creole, and suggest local norms must be our starting point for discussing the acrolect.
Author : Andrea Sand
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3823349430