Sociolinguistics and language contact studies have been since the work of Labov and Bickerton, to name just two major theoretical figures in the two fields, in search for adequate theoretical models. Due to the dominance of Chomskian linguistics in the 70s and 80s both made compromises with the logical machinery underlying Chomsky’s proposals: Labov designed since 1969 grammars with variable ru...

The purpose of the article is to reveal peculiarities development mass broadcasting culture in context specifics modern media (the case study television and print media). Research methodology. methods analysis synthesis, method structuring, system have been used understand influence on process developing speech culture. typological enabled revealing conventional transformation abstract-logical ...

This study aims at investigating voices in the Persian translation of Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party. In so doing, after a stylistic analysis of the voices in the original is done, it is argued by the authors that the polyphonous nature of the story is to a great extent due to the deployment of various sociolects in the story as well as the choice of Free Indirect Discourse (FID) as the...

0 Introduction The goal of this paper is to describe a phonological framework in which the study of discrete 'phonological' units appears not as a separate enterprise, opposed to the study of continuous 'phonetic' phenomena, but rather as part of the larger enterprise of the scientific study of speech. Why is such a framework necessary? Given that the sound structure of language is a structure ...

using the post-formalism as a method, and based on socialinguistics approach, the present article studies blind owl as a sociolect and effects of some aspects of iranain socity texture. sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on soc...

Our paper has 5 sections. In section (1) we will discuss critically the fact that the development of Text-to-Speech systems and Speech-to-Text systems has in the past been treated as totally separate problems (we restrict ourselves to so-called dictation systems, L2S and S2L, which either translate written language units L into speech signals S, or speech signals S into sequences of written lan...

Malcolm Ross's new theory of early Austronesian phylogeny is examined. The author describes evidence that *–en served to mark verbs in undergoer voice, patient subject in a language ancestral to Puyuma, as well as evidence that * marks undergoer voice, patient subject perfective in one sociolect of Nanwang Puyuma. This evidence falsifies the claim that Puyuma reflects an early Austronesian ...

Dilemma is a tool built to aid human translators in achieving higher productivity and better quality, by presenting lexical information which is automatically extracted from previous translations. The design decisions have been based on analyses of the human translation process. We present the ideas behind the tool, and outline the functionality. The system described has been evaluated by profe...

Semantic externalism in contemporary philosophy of language typically – and often tacitly – combines two supervenience claims about idiolectical meaning (i.e., meaning in the language system of an individual speaker). The first claim is that the meaning of a word in a speaker’s idiolect may vary without any variation in her intrinsic, physical properties. The second is that the meaning of a wor...