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Peer reviewedBayard, Donn; Weatherall, Ann; Gallois, Cynthia; Pittam, Jeffery – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2001
Describes a series of evaluations of gender pairs of New Zealand English, Australian English, American English, and received-pronunciation-type-English English voices by over 400 students in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Twenty-two personality and demographic traits were evaluated by Likert-scale questionnaires. Results are…
Descriptors: Demography, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.; Ivanov, V. V. – Scientific American, 1990
The relationship between Eastern and Western languages is explored. Possible origins and the spread of language over the Eurasian land mass are discussed. (CW)
Descriptors: Evolution, Indo European Languages, Language Patterns, Language Universals
Peer reviewedBustamante-Lopez, Isabel; Nina-Murcia, Mercedes – Hispania, 1995
Northern Andean Spanish (NAS) possesses a complex system of structures used in impositive speech. NAS speakers choose from several grammatical possibilities when asking their interlocutor to act. This article summarizes the grammatical possibilities and explains how the different forms are used to indicate different levels of politeness. (15…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Language Styles, Language Variation
