Over the last 50 years, sociolinguistic research in settings in which a regional, social, or ethnic non-standard linguistic variety is used alongside the standard variety of the same language has steadily increased. The educational implications of the concomitant use of such varieties have also received a great deal of research attention. This study deals with regional linguistic variation and ...

Dialects of Swedish vary in the pronunciation of unstressed /e/ in different phonological environments. In this pilot study, Stockholm Swedish is compared with several Finland Swedish dialects. Stockholm and one Åland dialect lower and back /e/ before [n], while Helsinki and most Nyland dialects lower and back /e/ before [r]. The data provide evidence for the sociolinguistic relevance of unstre...

Introduction Background Linguistic Aspects of Writing Systems Sociolinguistic Perspectives Psycholinguistic Perspectives and Language Change Arabic Computer Character Sets and ASCII-ization Research Questions Methodology Findings ASCII-izing Consonants ASCII-izing Vowels ASCII-izing Arabic Morphophonology The Social Context of AA Conclusion References About the Authors

Numerous studies conducted in both the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic fields have established that the parents' socioeconomic status (SES) influences several aspects of children's language production. Moreover, a number of psycholinguistic studies strongly suggest that these differences are due in part to differences in the nature and the quantity of input that children are exposed to. De...

Alternations and changes from trills to assibilated rhotics have been documented in several Latin American Spanish varieties (e.g. Vidal de Battini 1955, Rissel 1989). Beyond the sociolinguistic variables that may have triggered this change, assibilation can be accounted for by recent articulatory studies on trills (Solé et al. 1998, Solé 2002). These studies show that trills require very preci...

Over the past twenty years, we have come to see that errors are not simply flaws in a text. However, the need for correctness remains undiminished if only because of societal and institutional demands. Yet there is little consensus about correctness or even whether language can be described as correct or incorrect in the first place. This essay suggests a way ou I of this bind by looking at cor...

The objective of this particular research and development is to produce the supplementary sociolinguistic materials encourage students’ critical thinking in hybrid class. Based on preliminary study conducted by researcher, it was discovered that most learner lacked motivation understand core book sociolinguistic. Then, lecturer should be creative Because situation, researcher design learning pr...