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The Use of Phonetically Reduced Modals in Present-Day English: A Corpus-Based Analysis
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Oktavianti, Ikmi Nur – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2018
This paper examines the usage frequency of phonetically reduced modals (i.e. "gonna," "wanna," "gotta") in Present-day English. It is assumed that in distinct sociolinguistic and discourse contexts, the use of reduced modals is dynamic. To collect the data, there are five corpora used in this study, "Corpus of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Word Frequency
Two to One It Happens.
Woodward, James; De Santis, Susan – 1975
Recent research in sociolinguistics has demonstrated the need for looking at language in a dynamic framework, that is, for not imposing the traditional synchronic-diachronic dichotomy on linguistic studies. Support for the dynamic framework has been given from various oral languages. This paper attempts to test variation theory with historically…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Diachronic Linguistics, Finger Spelling
Third-Person Present Singular Verb Inflection in Early British and American English.
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Kyto, Merja – Language Variation and Change, 1993
In a sociohistorical variation analysis of verb inflection in Early Modern British and American English, corpus-based comparisons focus on several extralinguistic and linguistic factors that have influenced the choice of forms over successive periods of time. Contrary to customary theories of "colonial lag," the rate of change was faster…
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Colonialism, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: A Comparative Study.
Lewis, E. Glyn – 1980
This volume combines a discussion of bilingual education in three parts of the world, the Soviet Union, the Celtic countries of Western Europe, and the United States, with an outline of a theory of bilingualism and bilingual education. The first part of the book investigates how various systems derive from different combinations of identical…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis
The Relationship between Lexical Variation and Lexical Change.
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Johnson, Ellen – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Reports on a longitudinal study of nearly 1,000 English words to determine differences in usage in the United States in the 1930s and 1990s related to age, sex, race, education, region, and rurality. The results indicated that males, whites, older speakers, and speakers from rural areas use more older terms, whereas most educated speakers use…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Attainment
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Volume 8.
Silva, David J., Ed. – 1998
A collection of research in Japanese and Korean linguistics includes: "Repetition, Reformulation, and Definitions: Prosodic Indexes of Elaboration in Japanese" (Mieko Banno); "Projection of Talk Using Language, Intonation, Deictic and Iconic Gestures and Other Body Movements" (Keiko Emmett); "Turn-taking in Japanese…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Advertising, Bilingualism, Broadcast Television
Focus on the USA. Varieties of English Around the World, Volume 16.
Schneider, Edgar W., Ed. – 1996
Essays on varieties of English in the United States include: "Research Trends in the Study of American English" (Edgar W. Schneider); "Piney Woods Southern" (Lee Pederson); "Foundations of American English" (William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.); "The Comparability of Linguistic Atlas Records: The Case of LANCS an…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), College Students