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Download full textBickford, J. Albert – 1989
A study of dialectal variation in Mexican Sign Language (MSL), the primary language for a large segment of Mexico's deaf community, is presented. Signs used by nine different sources representing various locations, ages, and social groups are compared. The first section reviews a number of previous informal assessments of dialectal variation in…
Descriptors: Deafness, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Gesner, Edward – 1986
A bibliography of 430 books, journal articles, papers, and other references on Acadian French written in English or French is divided into two principal sections: an annotated bibliography of works focusing on the Acadian French dialect spoken in the Canadian Maritime Provinces, and an unannotated bibliography pertaining to Louisiana Acadian…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingualism, Dialect Studies, Ethnology
Gesner, Edward – 1985
A lexical comparison of four native speakers' spontaneous discourse in the Acadian French spoken in a southern Nova Scotia village with standard spoken French is described. This study is part of a larger study of four regional variations on Nova Scotia Acadian French and has as its objectives both linguistic analysis and improvement of standard…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries
PDF pending restorationLencek, Rado L. – 1980
This is a presentation of the Slovene language, one of the three official languages of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the official or administrative language of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. The presentation covers the following topics: (1) description of the language, the speech area, and contemporary standard Slovene; (2)…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Grammar
Carney, Sandra – 1979
To determine whether black children who speak a nonstandard dialect have difficulty in spelling because of the dialect features of their vocabulary, spelling tests were administered to 66 black English-speaking children in the first, second, and third grades. The results indicated that children who spoke black dialect exhibited spelling…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Dialect Studies, Masters Theses
Terrebonne, Nancy G.; Terrebonne, Robert A. – 1976
The occurrence of Black English Venacular (BEV) dialect features in the writing of 42 inner-city college students was studied using such sociolinguistic methods as variable rule analysis, computer programs, and implicational scales. A comparison of the patterns found in the subjects' writing with those found in spoken BEV revealed that sometimes,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Dialect Studies, Higher Education
Herrick, Earl M. – 1978
This computer program, a mechanization of the handsorted techniques which geographical dialectology has been using, increases the number of hypotheses that can be explored and the various correlations that can be made. It can draw several of the kinds of maps that dialectologists have used in direct atlases. The hardware, software, and program…
Descriptors: Atlases, Computational Linguistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Dialect Studies
PDF pending restorationPROCHAZKA, THEODORE, JR. – 1967
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS 615 SELECTED ENTRIES OF ARTICLES AND BOOKS IN THE FIELD OF ARABIC LANGUAGE STUDIES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1960 AND 1967. THE MATERIALS LISTED ARE WRITTEN IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AS WELL AS IN ARABIC, AND INCLUDE WORKS ON THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND RELEVANT PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES. ENTRIES HAVE BEEN ARRANGED BY MAJOR…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bibliographies, Classical Languages, Culture
Thibault, Pierrette – 1979
This volume contains twelve articles dealing with the French language as spoken in Quebec. The following topics are addressed: (1) language change and variation; (2) coordinating expressions in the French spoken in Montreal; (3) expressive language as source of language change; (4) the role of correction in conversation; (5) social change and…
Descriptors: Adults, Dialect Studies, French, Language Attitudes
Guitart, Jorge M. – 1977
Two studies on the phonology of Spanish spoken by Cubans in the United States are critically analyzed. The studies are: "Markedness and a Cuban Dialect of Spanish," by Jorge M. Guitart, and "Some Theoretical Implications from Rapid Speech Phenomena in Miami-Cuban Spanish," by Robert M. Hammond. The methodologies of Hammond and Guitart are…
Descriptors: Consonants, Cubans, Dialect Studies, Dialects
Shuy, Roger W. – 1969
This paper focusses on sex contrasts in language as revealed in recent sociolinguistic research. While there are relatively few differences in subjective language identifications and judgments, there are several clear differences in objective language data. In the Detroit Language Study, women show a greater "sensitivity" to multiple…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Differences, Dialect Studies, English
Lyovin, Anatole – 1968
The use of computers makes possible analysis of the vast amount of data available in recent dialect dictionaries and surveys and in the ancient Chinese rhyme books, such as "Guang yun" and "Ji yun." Comparison of dialects can enable a historical study of Chinese, a major language group outside the Indo-European area, to offer…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Chinese, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics
Dillard, J.L. – The Florida FL Reporter, 1968
The author takes up the problem of the origin of Negro dialects in the United States. On the basis of the very limited number of lexical items which can be traced directly to African languages, McDavid discounts the role of African influence on the patterns of current Negro English dialects. William Stewart suggests the possibility of extended…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Cultural Differences, Dialect Studies
Peer reviewedVanderslice, Ralph; Pierson, Laura Shun – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1967
This paper describes a "neglected" aspect of Hawaiian ("Pidgin") English--the suprasegmental or prosodic features. Illustrated by contrastive samples of Hawaiian American English (HAE) and General American English (GAE), the salient prosodic features are presented as follows--(1) syllable-timed rhythm, modified by emphatic…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Dialect Studies, Nonstandard Dialects
Allen, Harold B. – 1967
Today, the study of regional and social dialects is offering valuable assistance to language teachers. Although studies comprehending all regions of the United States are still unrealized, linguistic geographers have undertaken comprehensive field studies of many regional language variations, making available (1) atlases describing the regional…
Descriptors: Atlases, Dialect Studies, Dialects, English Instruction
