Studies of contact have revealed that all kinds of language material can, in the right circumstances, be borrowed from one language to another. Detecting, describing, and analyzing such situations typically involve the detailed study of at least two languages. An alternative involves detecting contact situations through database analysis. This cannot supplant the detailed work that requires det...

Short-term linguistic accommodation has been observed in a number of spoken language studies. The first of its kind in sign language research, this study aims to investigate the effects of regional varieties in contact and lexical accommodation in British Sign Language (BSL). Twenty-five participants were recruited from Belfast, Glasgow, Manchester, and Newcastle and paired with the same conver...

Abstract Existing sampling methods in language typology strive to control for areal biases typological datasets as a means avoid contact effects the distribution of linguistic structure. However, none these provide ways directly compare scenarios from perspective. This paper addresses this gap by introducing procedure worldwide comparisons scenarios. The unit consists sets three languages. Focu...