"Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throug…
by Hundt, Marianne, Schreier, Daniel
fromStudies in English language
"Recent developments in contact linguistics suggest considerable overlap of branches such as historical linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, pidgin/creole linguistics, language acquisition, etc. This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throug…
And conclusions -- References -- Perception and interpretation of intonationalprominence in varieties of South AfricanEnglish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Task 1: Perception of prosodic differences -- 2.1 Research question and hypotheses -- 2.2 Research design -- 2.3 Results -- 2.4 …
"This manual presents an overview of research on language boundaries in Romance-speaking areas both in and outside of Europe. It considers sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects as well as matters of language policy and language geography. The main focus lies on the curren…
The volume is highly relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact, documentation and areal typology. The publication is the outcome of a fruitful theoretical and methodological exchange between Latin American scholars an…
