Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 4 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 7 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 10 |
Descriptor
Dialects | 59 |
Language Classification | 59 |
Diachronic Linguistics | 15 |
Language Variation | 15 |
Language Research | 14 |
Sociolinguistics | 13 |
Dialect Studies | 12 |
Foreign Countries | 11 |
Phonology | 11 |
Regional Dialects | 11 |
Uncommonly Taught Languages | 11 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Higher Education | 3 |
Elementary Education | 1 |
Grade 5 | 1 |
Grade 8 | 1 |
Grade 9 | 1 |
High Schools | 1 |
Intermediate Grades | 1 |
Junior High Schools | 1 |
Middle Schools | 1 |
Postsecondary Education | 1 |
Secondary Education | 1 |
More ▼ |
Audience
Researchers | 1 |
Location
Africa | 2 |
Asia | 2 |
China | 2 |
Singapore | 2 |
California | 1 |
Hong Kong | 1 |
India | 1 |
Indiana | 1 |
Lebanon | 1 |
Macau | 1 |
Malaysia | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Kaltenegger, Sandra – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Chinese is a highly complex language with internal variation unprecedented in most other languages. Yet, that does not mean Chinese is unique in the sense that it cannot be compared to other languages and new concepts need to be introduced for the description of it. This paper is dedicated to the question of how to apply the notion of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Variation, Sino Tibetan Languages, Contrastive Linguistics
Michael Obiri-Yeboah – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation documents and analyzes phonetic and phonological features of Gua, an under-documented, understudied and nearly-endangered Guang language, spoken in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The language has two dialects, Anum and Boso. The data for this dissertation is from the Boso dialect spoken in the Boso community. The dissertation…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Vowels, Oral Language
Fei, Yue; Weekly, Robert – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This paper addresses the complexity of the linguistic situation in China by examining the language policy and language categorisation in the People's Republic of China (PRC), which has implications for how multilingual speakers conceptualise and practice 'language'. In addition, this paper examines the conceptual framework of translanguaging and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Kerry Christine McCullough – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates a typologically rare linguistic phenomenon found in Irish from three different perspectives: how it challenges phonological theory, how it is used by contemporary speakers, and how its written representation affects its acquisition. Initial consonant mutation (ICM), as it appears in the Celtic languages, is known to…
Descriptors: Phonology, Irish, Pronunciation, Language Research
Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia; Araújo e Sá, Maria Helena – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
In this chapter, we analyse the co-construction of meaning by university students in romance language (RL) chat rooms, in an online platform focused on multilingual language practice and learning. This communicative situation can best be described through the concept of 'intercomprehension', i.e. a multilingual and multisemiotic communicative…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Computer Mediated Communication, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning
Petryshyn, Ivan – Online Submission, 2015
Purpose: To present the first complete Guide for studying the Western-Ukrainian Dialect and its scientific description of Phonology. Methodology: descriptive, contrastive and analytical methods of defining the peculiarities of the Dialect. Results: the regularities and the laws have been defined as to the specifics of the Western-Ukrainian Dialect…
Descriptors: Ukrainian, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Phonology
Huebner, Thom – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2019
Despite a century-old narrative as a monolingual country with quaint regional dialects, Thailand is in fact a country of vast linguistic diversity, where a population of approximately 60 million speak more than 70 languages representing five distinct language families (Luangthongkum, 2007; Premsrirat, 2011; Smalley, 1994), the result of a history…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Vangsnes, Øystein A.; Söderlund, Göran B. W.; Blekesaune, Morten – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The Norwegian language has two written standards, Bokmål (majority variety) and Nynorsk (minority variety), and children receive their schooling in one or other of them. Pupils schooled in Nynorsk acquire the Bokmål variety simultaneously through extracurricular exposure and thus develop what may be termed "bidialectal literacy". In this…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Literacy, Language Variation, Dialects
Haynie, Hannah Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation uses quantitative and geographic analysis techniques to examine the historical and geographical processes that have shaped California's linguistic diversity. Many questions in California historical linguistics have received diminishing attention in recent years, remaining unanswered despite their continued relevance. The studies…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Research, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
Ahn, Jeahyeon; Moore, David – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2011
The purpose of this study is to investigate how the instructor's accent influences the students' learning outcome, as well as how a student's accent perceptions may affect their learning. Unlike native voices, accented voices are not natural to the native speakers; therefore, it requires more cognitive resources for processing the information,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Learning Experience, Native Speakers
Henry, Jeannette – Weewish Tree: A Magazine of Indian America for Young People, 1972
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification
Voegelin, C.F.; Voegelin, F.M. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1965
This volume of the Languages of the World Series contains: "(1.5) Unified List of American Indian Languages aboriginal to Latin America" (pages 1-120), and "(1.6) Classification of American Indian languages" (North, Central, and South America, pages 121-50). For each language, language family, or other group, information is…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Comparative Analysis, Dialects, Language Classification

Cadora, Frederic J. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1976
This study assesses and characterizes lexical relationships among the major urban Syro-Lebanese varieties of Arabic. To achieve this quantitative analysis of degrees of similarity or differentiation, an analytical procedure based on lexical compatibility was developed. Secondarily, a classification of these varieties is presented as a by-product…
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification

Baker, Ronald L. – Contemporary Education, 1988
The study of folk speech, which traditionally included only regional dialects, has evolved to include cultural and generational dialects. This article discusses how folk speech study has come to include a range of dialects and a variety of sociolinguistic trends. (JL)
Descriptors: Dialects, Ethnography, Folk Culture, Language Classification

Whaley, Lindsay J.; Grenoble, Lenore A.; Li, Fengxiang – Language, 1999
Demonstrates that two Tungusic languages, Evenki and Oroqen, that have long been treated as a single language for classification purposes, are better treated as distinct linguistic varieties. Fundamental questions are raised about the current classification of Tungusic languages and a renewed examination is suggested of the role of dialect…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification, Language Variation