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Geolinguistic variation of Hebridean Gaelic: the role of nominal morphology ...
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This thesis investigates the geographical variation of inflectional markers used in noun phrases by speakers of Scottish Gaelic. I focus on the traditional vernacular and therefore the data represent the speech of older L1 speakers from one of the language’s heartlands: the Hebridean archipelago. I interviewed 41 speakers above the age of 50 from 18 locations on 10 islands and used dialectometric methods to analyse the data. This thesis contributes to Gaelic and linguistic research by providing: (1) an updated account of morphological and geographical variation in the traditional Gaelic vernacular; (2) further evaluation of quantitative analyses of morphology and macrolevel variation; (3) a theory of the hierarchy of inflectional markedness for Gaelic; and (4) a critical geolinguistic approach to the study of Gaelic and morphology applied to quantitative and qualitative data. The fieldwork component of this research consisted of a sociolinguistic interview, an elicitation task, and a questionnaire to collect ...
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consonant mutation; dialectology; dialectometry; geolinguistics; language contact; language variation; nominal morphology; Scottish Gaelic
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URL: https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/38432 https://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/1696
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Individuals, communities, and sound change: an introduction
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 67 ; 2397-1835 (2021)
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Globalisierung: Mehrsprachigkeit oder "English only" ... : Globalization: Multilingualism or "English only" ...
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Fritz, Thomas. - : Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, 2021
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Variable Future-Time Expression in Spanish: A Comparison between Heritage and Second Language Learners
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In: Languages; Volume 6; Issue 4; Pages: 206 (2021)
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Attitudes of South Tyrolean University Students towards German Varieties
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In: Languages ; Volume 6 ; Issue 3 (2021)
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The Quest for Signals in Noise: Leveraging Experiential Variation to Identify Bilingual Phenotypes
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In: Languages ; Volume 6 ; Issue 4 (2021)
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Toward an individual-difference perspective on phonologization
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 14 ; 2397-1835 (2021)
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Diasistematicitat vs. pluricentrisme. Una aproximació a la lingüística de les varietats alemanya ; Diasistematicity vs pluricentrism. An approach to German variety linguistics
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In: Treballs de Sociolingüística Catalana; Núm. 31 (2021): L’estandardologia comparada: teoria i pràctica; 95-113 (2021)
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Writing in the Disciplines and Within-discipline Variations: A Comparison of the Formulaic Profiles of the Medical Research Article and the Medical Case Report
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In: Applied Linguistics and English as a Second Language Dissertations (2021)
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Using language models for holistic language variety comparisons ...
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ВАРИАТИВНОСТЬ В АРАБСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ ... : VARIATION IN ARABIC ...
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Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: A corpus-centred investigation ...
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Nguyen, Li. - : Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, 2021
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Language Attitudes and Policies at Mainstream and Deaf Schools in Italy ...
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Quantifying variation in movement and location: comparing the lexicons of American and Ghanaian Sign Language ...
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Production of Dutch variable plurals in language corpora ...
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Mapping Urban Linguistic Diversity in New York City: Motives, Methods, Tools, and Outcomes
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Next-gen sequencing identifies non-coding variation disrupting miRNA-binding sites in neurological disorders
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Language Contact: A Historical Sociolinguistic Reconstruction of Colloquial Singapore English in Relation to its Chinese Substrates
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Li, Lijun. - : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, 2021
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