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Isaac L. Bleaman; Chaya R. Nove – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2025
We introduce the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe (CSYE), an Open Access digital language archive based on several hundred testimony interviews with Holocaust survivors from the USC Shoah Foundation. The testimonies are a uniquely rich source of information on all aspects of European Yiddish: its regional dialects, grammatical structures,…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, German, Dialects, Language Styles
Judit Kroo – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This paper examines the ways in which the indexical meanings that attach to enregistered speaking styles are debated and contested in interaction by younger Japanese adults. Contested meanings include discourses of so-called "hyoojungo" 'Standard Japanese' and the speaking styles that are collectively described as 'Okinawan dialect',…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Styles
Oregon Univ., Eugene. Oregon Elementary English Project. – 1971
Part of the Oregon Elementary English Project, this unit focuses on variation in language. Consisting of fourteen individual lessons, the unit begins with a series of lessons whose purpose is to develop students' ability to recognize ways in which objects belonging to the same set may differ. These lessons serve as preparation for observing the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Dialects, Elementary Education, English Curriculum
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Curriculum Development in English. – 1968
This ninth-grade unit on language differences is intended to increase "the student's awareness or sensitivity to the ways in which language varies with the differing backgrounds and interests of those who use language," to develop his "abilities to adapt his language behavior to more effectively meet the demands of a variety of…
Descriptors: Background, Curriculum Guides, Dialects, English Curriculum
Shuy, Roger W. – 1976
This paper describes the past assumptions about the mismatch of child language and school language, noting the distance principle, the characteristics of language interference and the various treatments that have been hypothesized. Past research involving language mismatch and reading is reviewed, and it is noted that even though the best evidence…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Style, Dialects, Elementary Education
Lester, Mark; And Others – ELT Documents, 1978
This issue contains articles ranging from a theoretical discussion of the nature of an international language to an assessment of the implications of teaching a local form of English. The following articles are included: (1) "International English and Language Variation," by M. Lester; (2) "The English Language, Ideology, and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Differences, Dialect Studies