The article is devoted to the theoretical issues of interference that arise from interlingual relations. As relations are becoming more prominent in sociocultural context modern globalized world, research on this topic particularly relevant. This type also relevant because it reflects not only linguistic point view, but many aspects sociolinguistics. linguistic, and sociolinguistic interpretati...

The article presents the results of a study messages from WhatsApp messenger, included in corpus project Swiss linguists What’s up, Switzerland?, to identify factors peculiarity and linguistic features communication young people Switzerland. focus is on main that determine users, namely, situation dialect-literary diglossia German-speaking Switzerland, reflection writing oral youth communicatio...

Abstract Community engagement projects create an avenue for university students and faculty to interact with local communities. These endeavors place together groups different worldviews, cultures, languages. Service-Learning ( sl ) has acquired novelty in academic circles; however, there been limited research analyzing what happens intercultural communication. This article attempts fill this g...

This article examines the development of object clitic placement by children acquiring Cypriot Greek. Greek-speaking Cyprus is sociolinguistically characterized by diglossia between two varieties of Greek, the local Cypriot Greek and the official Standard Modern Greek. Arguably as a result of this situation, clitics may be placed postverbally (enclisis) or preverbally (proclisis) in the same sy...

There are at least two languages (American Sign Language [ASL], English) and three modalities (sign, speech, print) in most deaf individuals' lives. Mixing of ASL and English in utterances of deaf adults has been described in various ways (pidgins, diglossia, language contact, bilingualism), but children's mixing usually is treated as the 'fault' of poor input language. Alternatively, how might...

The Arabic language is acquired by its native speakers both as a regional spoken Arabic dialect, acquired in early childhood as a first language, and as the more formal variety known as Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), typically acquired later in childhood. These varieties of Arabic show a range of linguistic similarities and differences. Since previous psycholinguistic research in Arabic has prim...