Chat language is often referred to as Computer-mediated communication (CMC). Most of the previous studies on chat language has been dedicated to collecting ”chat room” data as it is the kind of data which is the most accessible on the WEB. This kind of data falls under the informal register whereas we are interested in this paper in understanding the mechanisms of a more formal kind of CMC: dia...

OBJECTIVES To explore trial participants' experiences of the process and outcomes of early, enhanced speech and language therapy after stroke with support from an employed visitor. DESIGN Qualitative study nested within a randomized controlled trial. PARTICIPANTS Twney-two people who, after stroke, had a diagnosis of aphasia (12), dysarthria (5) or both (5) and who participated in the ACT N...

1. Introduction. It is easy to show that contact-induced change can have a profound effect on the typological profile of the receiving language. Probably the most obvious examples , and also the ones that are easiest to find, are changes in basic sentential word order. These are especially striking because it is word order features that have attracted the most attention in the typological liter...

Abstract Phylogenetic trees are a central tool for studying language evolution and have wide implications understanding cultural as whole. For example, they been the basis of studies on musical instruments, religious beliefs political complexity. Bayesian phylogenetic methods transparent regarding data assumptions underlying inference. One these assumptions—that languages change independently—i...

Cypriot Arabic (CyAr) is a severely endangered Semitic variety spoken by Maronites. It belongs to the group of “peripheral varieties” that were separated from core Arabic-speaking area and came into contact with non-Semitic languages. Although there has been renewed interest since turn century for study CyAr, some aspects its structure are still not well known. In this paper, we present analyze...