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41	Linguistic Prestige and Early Modern Italy: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics
	Serra, Eleonora. - : University of Cambridge, 2020. : MMLL, 2020. : Pembroke College, 2020
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42	Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: A corpus-centred investigation
	Nguyen, Li. - : University of Cambridge, 2020. : Churchill, 2020
	Abstract: This dissertation investigates cross-generational linguistic differences in the Canberra Vietnamese bilingual community, with a particular focus on Vietnamese as the heritage language. Specifically, it documents the vernacular and considers key aspects of this data from different theoretical perspectives. Its main contribution is an insight into a rarely studied heritage language variety in a contact community that has never been examined. The dissertation consists of five core chapters, organised into two parts. In the first part (Chapters 2–3), I describe how I documented the vernacular and created the Canberra Vietnamese English Corpus (CanVEC), an original corpus compiled specifically for this study that is also the first to be freely available for research purposes. The corpus consists of over ten hours of spontaneous speech produced by 45 Vietnamese-English bilingual speakers across two generations living in Canberra. In the second part of the study (Chapters 4–6), I put the corpus to use and investigate aspects of the cross-generational differences in Vietnamese as the heritage language in this community. In particular, I first probe the Vietnamese heritage language via its participation in the code-switching discourse (Chapter 4). In doing so, I focus on the applicability of the Matrix Language Framework (MLF) (Myers-Scotton, 1993, 2002) and its associated Matrix Language (ML) Turnover Hypothesis (Myers-Scotton, 1998) to the code-switching data in CanVEC. Since support for this prominent model has mainly come from language pairs that have different clausal word order or vastly different inventories of inflectional morphology, Vietnamese-English as a pair in which both languages are SVO and essentially isolating offers a tantalising testing ground for its application. Results show that the universal claims of this model do not hold so straight-forwardly. CanVEC data challenges several assumptions of the MLF, with the model ultimately only being able to account for around half of the CanVEC code-switching data. I further demonstrate that even when the ML is putatively identifiable and a cross-generational ML ‘turnover’ is quantitatively observed, the predictions do not reflect the direction of structural influence that we see in CanVEC. The MLF approach therefore sheds only limited light on cross-generational language shift and variation in this community. Given that null elements emerge as a distinct area of difficulty in Chapter 4, I take this aspect as the focal point for the next part of the investigation (Chapter 5), where I use the variationist approach (Labov, 1972 et seq.) to explore three cases where null and overt realisation alternates in Vietnamese: subjects, objects, and copulas. In doing so, I move away from the bilingual portion of CanVEC to examine the monolingual heritage Vietnamese subset directly. Results show that Vietnamese null subjects vary significantly across generations, while null objects and copulas remain stable in terms of use. As speakers also overwhelmingly prefer overt forms over null forms (∼70:30) across all the three of the variables of interest, I appeal to the generative interface-oriented approach (Sorace & Filiaci, 2006 et seq.) to next examine the distribution of overt subjects, objects, copulas (Chapter 6). These results converge with what was found for null forms: cross-generational effects were observed for pronominal subjects, but not pronominal objects and copulas. This finding also supports the importance of a distinction drawn in previous works between internal (syntax-semantics) and external (syntax-discourse/pragmatics) interface phenomena, with the latter being seemingly more susceptible to change. Ultimately, this dissertation highlights the empirical and theoretical value of studying rarely considered contact varieties, while deploying an integrated approach that acknowledges the multi-faceted complexity of the contact communities where these varieties are spoken. ; Cambridge Trust International Scholarship
	Keyword: bilingual corpus; Canberra Vietnamese community; code-switching; corpus linguistics; heritage language; language contact; language variation and change; matrix language; null subject; sociolinguistics; variationist linguistics; Vietnamese
	URL: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.65721 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/318606
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43	Vowel Production and Canadian Raising in Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan English
	Wittrock, Bryce Jacob. - 2020
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44	Nombres, ¿para qué os quiero? : una propuesta metalingüística y transversal sobre diversidad en el aula de 3º ESO
	González García, Marta. - 2020
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45	Perception of local and non-local vowels by adults and children in the South
	Jacewicz, Ewa; Fox, Robert Allen
	In: J Acoust Soc Am (2020)
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46	Os significados sociais da realização variável da vibrante múltipla alveolar em onset silábico em Porto Alegre (RS) : variação, mudança linguística e estilo
	Corrêa, Raquel da Costa. - 2020
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47	A representação linguística dos personagens cariocas de classe baixa na dublagem brasileira do filme Rio
	Reuillard, Patrícia Chittoni Ramos; Farias, Raquel Rocha. - 2020
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48	It's all about the interaction: listener responses as a discourse-organisational variable
	Eiswirth, Mirjam Elisabeth. - : The University of Edinburgh, 2020
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49	Regolamenti nazionali ed europei in italiano a confronto: analisi linguistica qualitativa e quantitativa di un corpus
	Tombesi, Elena. - : EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2020
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50	Sprachvariation im politischen Diskurs
	Bock, Verena. - 2020
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51	IT-Anglizismen in der Standardschriftsprache des Gegenwartsdeutschen
	Fischer, Jennifer Isabel. - 2020
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52	An experimental approach to recomplementation : evidence from monolingual and bilingual Spanish
	Frank, Joshua, Ph. D.. - 2020
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53	Taiwanese Texans : a sociolinguistic study of language and cultural identity
	Brozovsky, Erica Sharon. - 2020
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54	Stylistic variation in African American Language: examining the social meaning of linguistic features in a Seattle community
	Scanlon, Michael. - 2020
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55	Latino, Latina, Latin@, Latine, and Latinx: Gender Inclusive Oral Expression in Spanish
	Slemp, Katie
	In: Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (2020)
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56	English as a global language: language variation and language death
	Matilla Díaz, María. - 2020
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57	Escritura, oralidad y variación nuevos datos sobre la alternancia allí/allá a la luz de un corpus epistolar del siglo XVI
	BLAS-ARROYO, JOSE LUIS; González-Martínez, Juan. - : De Gruyter, 2020
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58	Language endangerment: a multidimensional analysis of risk factors
	Bromham, L.; Hua, X.; Algy, C.. - : Oxford University Press, 2020
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59	Why Would We Rather Peg Out Than Simply Die?—How Do game Metaphors Help Us Deal with Death Across Languages and Cultures?
	Wachowski, Wojciech; Sullivan, Karen. - : Springer International Publishing, 2020
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60	VARIATIONS IN METADISCOURSE USE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW THESIS CHAPTERS
	Osei Yaw Akoto; Joseph Benjamin A. Afful
	In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 390-408 (2020) (2020)
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