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Godfrey, Elizabeth; Tagliamonte, Sali – Language Variation and Change, 1999
Aims to contribute new data on verbal "-s" by systematically examining its behavior in Devon English (DE), a variety spoken in Southwest England, and a broader historical and cross-dialectal perspective for understanding the origin and function of verbal "-s" in nonstandard varieties of English in North America. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Dialects, English, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
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Walker, James A. – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Reconstructs the present temporal reference system of Early African American English by investigating the aspectual conditioning of a morphosyntactic construction within the domain of present temporal reference in three representative varieties. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Variation, Morphology (Languages)
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Jorgensen, J. Normann; Kristensen, Kjeld – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Discusses the notion of regional standards of a language with regard to modern Danish. Regional and national standards of a language as well as local dialect are defined. The article shows that, for a geographical entity, a statistically determined boundary can be established in the range between the extremes of a regional dialect and national…
Descriptors: Danish, Foreign Countries, Language Variation, Models
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Weldon, Tracey – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Provides a framework to describe the variability between negative auxiliaries in predicative constructions based on a quantitative analysis of data collected on African American vernacular English. Results indicate that, with the possible exception of the negative present variation, the alternations all belong to one underlying system. (56…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Language Variation, Negative Forms (Language)
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Tagliamonte, Sali – Language Variation and Change, 1998
Describes a new research project on York English, a variety in northeast England. Conducted a quantitative analysis of a linguistic feature that recurs pervasively in varieties of English worldwide--"was/were" variation in the past tense paradigm. (Author/ER)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
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King, Ruth – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Examined a nonstandard pattern of agreement found in certain varieties of Atlantic Canada Acadian French. Quantitative analysis of subject-verb agreement patterns in Newfoundland French revealed consistent invariant behavior in this dialect, or, where there is variation, variation constrained according to specific linguistically based factors. (19…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, French Canadians, Language Patterns