A Winning Dialect

Author : Thea R. Strand
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487545975
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Winning Dialect written by Thea R. Strand and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did a rural dialect from the heart of Norwegian farm country win a national dialect popularity contest? What were the effects of this win, and what has happened to the winning dialect since? A Winning Dialect tells a story of linguistic and cultural transformation in the rural district of Valdres, Norway. It shows how lifelong residents have adapted to changing social, economic, and political circumstances – particularly the shift from family farming to tourism development – and how they have used local linguistic and cultural resources to craft a viable future for themselves and the places their ancestors have called home for centuries. Once stigmatized as poor and uneducated, the distinctive dialect of Valdres now holds a special place as a valuable part of Norwegian national heritage, as well as a marker of local belonging. Based on two decades of research and fieldwork, A Winning Dialect considers how a traditional dialect is transformed – linguistically and culturally – as it is put to new uses in the contemporary world.

Author : Hakan Seyalioglu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999870013
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialect written by Hakan Seyalioglu and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Kohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108876749
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Language written by Mary Kohn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From birth to early adulthood, all aspects of a child's life undergo enormous development and change, and language is no exception. This book documents the results of a pioneering longitudinal linguistic survey, which followed a cohort of sixty-seven African American children over the first twenty years of life, to examine language development through childhood. It offers the first opportunity to hear what it sounds like to grow up linguistically for a cohort of African American speakers, and provides fascinating insights into key linguistics issues, such as how physical growth influences pronunciation, how social factors influence language change, and the extent to which individuals modify their language use over time. By providing a lens into some of the most foundational questions about coming of age in African American Language, this study has implications for a wide range of disciplines, from speech pathology and education, to research on language acquisition and sociolinguistics.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writer's Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195220438
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New-dialect Formation written by Peter Trudgill and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new and controversial theory about dialect contact and the formation of new colonial dialects. It examines the genesis of Latin American Spanish, Canadian French and North American English, but concentrates on Australian and South African English, with a particular emphasis on the development of the newest major variety of the language, New Zealand English. Peter Trudgill argues that the linguistic growth of these new varieties of English was essentially deterministic, in the sense that their phonologies are the predictable outcome of the mixture of dialects taken from the.

Author : Heinrich Mutschmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Phonology of the North-eastern Scotch Dialect on an Historical Basis written by Heinrich Mutschmann and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gunther De Vogelaer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027273472
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dialect Laboratory written by Gunther De Vogelaer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of linguistic change on, since dialects are relatively free of standardization and therefore more tolerant of variant competition in grammar. In addition, as compared to most cross-linguistic and diachronic data, dialect data are unusually high in resolution. This book shows that the study of dialect variation has indeed the potential, perhaps even the duty, to play a central role in the process of finding answers to fundamental questions of theoretical historical linguistics. It includes contributions which relate a clearly formulated theoretical question of historical linguistic interest with a well-defined, solid empirical base. The volume discusses phenomena from different domains of grammar (phonology, morphology and syntax) and a wide variety of languages and language varieties in the light of several current theoretical frameworks.

Author : John Jamieson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reijo Aulanko
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631595527
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nordic Prosody written by Reijo Aulanko and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the revised texts of talks and posters given at the Nordic Prosody X conference, held at the University of Helsinki, in August 2008. The contributions by Scandinavian and other researchers cover a wide range of prosody-related topics from various theoretical and methodological points of view. Although the history of the conference series is Nordic and Scandinavian, the current volume presents studies that are of mainly Baltic origin in the sense that of the eight languages presented in the proceedings only English is not natively spoken around the Baltic Sea. Research issues addressed in the 25 articles include various aspects of speech prosody, their regional variation within and across languages as well as social and idiolectal variation. Speech technology and modelling of prosody are also addressed in more than one article.

Author : St. Louis Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books Containing American Local Dialects written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: