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Intertexts in City of Glass as a way to represent ambiguity and fragmentation of meaning in human language - a comparison between the novel and the graphic novel ...
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Response-Based and Counterfactual Learning for Sequence-to-Sequence Tasks in NLP ...
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Composition Models for the Representation and Semantic Interpretation of Nominal Compounds ...
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Sociophonetic factors in automatic speech recognition: a study on American English ...
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A Northern City Going Elsewhere: Apparent and Real-Time Sound Change in Ogdensburg, New York ...
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The Atlas of North American English (Labov, Ash, & Boberg, 2006) found that dialect diversity in North America was increasing, via the continuing advancement of regional sound changes such as the Northern Cities Shift (NCS). In the decade since the Atlas’s publication, however, indications have emerged that that conclusion was premature, with multiple studies finding retreat from the NCS in communities where it was expected to be stable or advancing (e.g. Wagner, Mason, Nesbitt, Pevan, & Savage, 2016; Driscoll & Lape 2015). This dissertation reports a real-time study demonstrating that the loss of NCS can be rapid indeed. This study examines the loss of the NCS in Ogdensburg, a small city in rural Northern New York, on the Canadian border. On the basis of nine speakers interviewed there in 2008, Dinkin (2009, 2013) described Ogdensburg as the northeasternmost limit of the NCS, with some evidence that the NCS was advancing in apparent time. Furthermore, the data suggested an incipient merger of ...
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410 Linguistics; 420 English & Old English languages
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URL: http://boristheses.unibe.ch/1644/ https://dx.doi.org/10.24442/boristheses.1644
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A Corpus-based Comparison of Albanian and Italian Student Writing in L1 and English as L2: Hedges and Boosters as Modalization by Degree
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Multilingual Language Control and Executive Function: A Replication Study
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Proverb Database: Corpus of American English Proverbs (CAEP) and Experimental Study
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Proverb Database: Corpus of American English Proverbs (CAEP) and Experimental Study ...
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Patterns of Conversational Interaction in Varieties of English ... : Muster konversationeller Interaktion in Varietäten des Englischen ...
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Do We Pronounce Quotation? An Analysis of Name-informing and Non-name-informing Contexts ...
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Preposition placement in English as a second language: a usage-based approach
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Sociolinguistic identity (re)construction in the German diaspora: the case of the use of address forms and kinship terms by Anglophone Cameroonian immigrants ...
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Individual Differences and Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning ...
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Morphological and syntactic feature analysis of Ugandan english ... : influence from Luganda, Runyankole-Rukiga, and Acholi-Lango ...
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The Prosody of Sluicing: Production Studies on Prosodic Disambiguation ...
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