This study presents the grammar of the Lewotobi dialect of Lamaholot, an Austronesian language spoken in the eastern part of Flores Island and neighboring islands of Indonesia. Lamaholot belongs to the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of Austronesian, within which it is in a s…
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This dissertation argues that the biblical writers stylistically represented the speech of Arameans and Trans-Jordanians in biblical prose. Although there are a few obvious examples of style-switching in the Hebrew Bible (Gen 31:47; Judg 12:6), this study argues that there are m…
This thesis investigates speech accommodation and dialect leveling in three episodes of the Al-Jazeera program "Open Dialogue" with particular focus on the phonological change of D > TH, so that a word like aijiDan 'also' > aijiTHan in the Tunisian dialect. This study also looks…
Purpose : The purpose of this study is to explore the phonological development of Spanish-speaking preschoolers who are acquiring African American English (AAE) in North Carolina (NC). Understanding the phonological structure of the Spanish-AAE language combination will improve …
Bir toplumu meydana getiren insanlar aynı zamanda ortak bir kültür de oluştururlar. Bu kültürün hem bir unsuru hem de taşıyıcısı dildir. Bu yüzden, dil bir milletin kimlik ve kültürünün çok önemli bir simgesidir. Geçmişten bu yana birçok medeniyete ev sahipliği yapmış olan Anado…
xבני העדה שהגיעו, התרכזו והתמקמו בשני אזורים מרכזיים בישראל. בשכונת גילה בירושלים, וכן בקריית אתא בצפון הארץ. באזור נתניה ומעט בחולון קיימים יוצאי בני עדת קאמשלי גם כן, אך מספרם מועט. המחקר הנתון הינו מחקר הצלה של הלהג היהודי ממידענים באזורים אלו. היהודים שהגיעו לארץ ישראל במאה …
Built after several immigration waves, Amman developed its own dialect. Previous studies investigated the stylistic and social reallocation process (Britain & Trudgill, 2005) that happened to some major phonemes. The three phonemes [k], [ʔ] and [g] are dialectal reflexes of the …
This dissertation analyses how the hegemony of Hindu nationalism has structured the narratives of Hindu Partition survivors and recruited them in service of a putative Hindu nation. Using an interpretive approach, this dissertation analyses politics as culture. It is based on fo…
This dissertation is about land, colonization, and Indigenous people. While focusing broadly on Algonquian peoples, special attention is given to the Spruce Island Cree of Cumberland House in northeastern Saskatchewan. The use of the Nehinuw (Cree) language and cultural historic…