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PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES OF AMERICAN ENGLISH IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON ... : ФОНЕТИЧЕСКИЕ И ФОНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ АМЕРИКАНСКОГО АНГЛИЙСКОГО В ГОРОДЕ ВАШИНГТОН ...
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The Invisibility Aspect in Language Acquisition Among Native American ELLs
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In: Thinking Matters Symposium (2022)
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Where is the Surfer? Where is the Hipster?: Spatial Relations in Southern Californian English vs. Pacific Northwestern English ...
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Looking at linguistic research on American English dialects there is no ignoring that the West is an under-researched region. In an effort to compensate for the lack of research, this pilot-sized empirical study will analyse semantic differences using figure-ground relations from Southern Californian English and Pacific Northwestern English. A figure-ground (FG) relation is where one entity, the figure, is being located in relation to another entity, the ground (e.g., ‘the apple is on the table’, ‘apple’ is the figure being located in relation to table, the ground) (Bowerman and Pederson, 1992). FG relations have been discussed extensively across languages, but not across dialects. Following the cross-linguistic approaches of Levinson and Meira (2003), this study uses FG relations to further the distinction between these two English dialects. The project used the BowPed (Bowerman and Pederson, 1992) pictures series that was created to elicit FG relation responses to gather data. Responses were collected from ...
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American English; regional dialects; spatial sematics; topological relations
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5796851 https://zenodo.org/record/5796851
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