Sökning: "Language variation and change"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 49 avhandlingar innehållade orden Language variation and change.

  1. 1. Varia��o, contato e mudan�a lingu�stica em Mo�ambique e Cabo Verde : A concord�ncia vari�vel de n�mero em sintagmas nominais do portugu�s

    Författare :Anna Jon-And; Thomas Johnen; John Lipski; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; variable agreement; number; noun phrase; Portuguese; Mozambique; Cape Verde; Brazil; Africa; language contact; Ronga; Changana; Cape Verdean Creole; concordância variável; número; sintagma nominal; português; Moçambique; Cabo Verde; Brasil; África; contato linguístico; ronga; changana; Portuguese; portugisiska;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates variable noun phrase number agreement (VNA) in two second language varieties of Portuguese, spoken in Maputo, Mozambique and in Mindelo, Cape Verde. Quantitative VARBRUL analysis is carried out based on recordings made in Maputo and Mindelo 2007 and 2008. LÄS MER

  3. 2. A View from Language : Growth of language in individuals and populations

    Författare :Christer Johansson; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavia; psycho-linguistics; past tense; linguistic ecology; language variation; language change; language acquisition; evolution; epidemics; emergence; diffusion; connectionism; area linguistics; case; simulation; synthesis.; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : The main question that this book tries to find answers to is what it is that makes language learnable. Language is one of the most complex human activities, but nearly 100% of humanity have learned a language in childhood. One answer could be that it is something in our brain that makes us learn language better than most other activities. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Ungdomar och dialekt i Alingsås : Young people and dialect in a small town in West Sweden

    Författare :Anna Gunnarsdotter Grönberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; sociolinguistic variation; phonology; dialect levelling; language change; regionalization; urbanization; youth; upper secondary schoo; high school; youth language; sex and gender; geographic mobility; demogeography; lifestyle;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a study of sociolinguistic variation among students from five municipalities, all attending an upper secondary school in Alingsås, a town of 25,000, northeast of Göteborg, Sweden. The material consists of recorded interviews with 97 students. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Återbesök i Eskilstuna : En undersökning av morfologisk variation och förändring i nutida talspråk

    Författare :Eva Sundgren; Lars-Gunnar Andersson; Bengt Nordberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; Sociolinguistic variation; language change; spoken Swedish; Eskilstuna; morphology; real time; apparent time; panel study; trend study; individual change; generational change; intralinguistic constraints; salience; quantitative analysis; implicational scaling; local integration; social mobility; Nordiska språk - allmänt; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages; Languages and linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : Real-time replications of empirical studies of language use are scarce. This study of language change in real time replicates an investigation of the social variation of spoken Swedish in the medium-sized town of Eskilstuna, using data collected 29 years after the original study. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Phonological Quantity in Swedish Dialects : Typological Aspects, Phonetic Variation and Diachronic Change

    Författare :Felix Schaeffler; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish dialects; phonological quantity; vowel and consonant duration; cluster analysis; linguistic typology; phonetic variation; diachronic change; Phonetics; Fonetik;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project.The study is explorative in character. LÄS MER