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"Word of mouth: Mouthing patterns in a bimodal multilingual deaf community" by @marahjaraisy.bsky.social & Rose Stamp

#Mouthing #SignLanguage #LanguageContact #KufrQassemSignLanguage #IsraeliSignLanguage #Arabic #Diglossia
doi.org/10.1017/S004...

My Big Idea About The Word “BIG” Bilingualism, borrowing, and the trouble with F and W

My Big Idea About The Word “BIG”:
Bilingualism, borrowing, and the trouble with F and W
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#bilingualism #history #languagecontact #secondlanguage #english #welsh #history #middleenglish #middlewelsh #borrowing #lenition

My Big Idea About The Word “BIG” Bilingualism, borrowing, and the trouble with F and W

Bilingualism, borrowing, and the trouble with F and W:
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#language #linguistics #opinion #nonfiction #history #english #welsh #bilingual #borrowing #languagecontact

Here's a clip of the #Welsh #language being mocked in the #horror #film The Old Dark House back in 1932: "Even Welsh ought not sound like that." It seems exceptional that #languageattitudes towards Welsh have remained as positive as they are (Lee 2016) despite the sort of long-lived casual overt […]

Image of the cover of the book "Modality in contact: Necessity and obligation in New Englishes" written by Carmelo Alessandro Basile.

The award-winning monograph “Modality in Contact” explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity and obligation in New Englishes, with a focus on Singapore English.

Access here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111488752/html

#Linguistics #WorldEnglishes #LanguageContact

Archaeoethnologica: Linguistic Concta in Anatolia / Contato Linguístico na Anatólia

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#Linguistics #Antiquity #Anatolia #Mediterranean #hittite #luwian #phrygian #languagecontact #culturecontact #AncientBlueSky #books #openaccess

Archaeoethnologica: Linguistic Concta in Anatolia / Contato Linguístico na Anatólia

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#Linguistics #Antiquity #Anatolia #Mediterranean #hittite #luwian #phrygian #languagecontact #culturecontact #AncientBlueSky #books #openaccess

Archaeoethnologica: Linguistic Concta in Anatolia / Contato Linguístico na Anatólia

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#Linguistics #Antiquity #Anatolia #Mediterranean #hittite #luwian #phrygian #languagecontact #culturecontact #AncientBlueSky #books #openaccess

Archaeoethnologica: Linguistic Concta in Anatolia / Contato Linguístico na Anatólia

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#Linguistics #Antiquity #Anatolia #Mediterranean #hittite #luwian #phrygian #languagecontact #culturecontact #AncientBlueSky #books #openaccess

📘 New chapter out! We look at how language documentation has evolved - from focusing on single languages to building multilingual corpora, with more collaboration and speaker involvement.
doi.org/10.1515/9783110443011-047

#Linguistics #LanguageDocumentation #LanguageContact #Multilingualism #Africa

#LSA #LSA2025 #Linguistics #FirstLanguageAcquisition #LanguageContact #Perception #Production #Productivity #ComputationalModeling #Phonetics #Phonology #Typology #LanguageChange #TheoreticalFrameworks #BiPhon #Praat

Archaeoethnologica: Sub-Indo-European Europe - Book / Europa Sub-Indo-europeia - Livro

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#Palaeolinguistic #Linguistics #Indoeuropean #Languagecontact #Books #openaccess #IndoeuropeanStudies

Personally I think the Danish word for this bird, "musvit", is a reshape of titmouse ( > mustit > musvit). Musvit is usually seen as an onomatopoetic name, which is not implausible, bit I think it lacks a syllable to be the case.

#sociolinguistics #languagecontact #danish #oldenglish

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I had no idea that, in #French, #DarthVader is called #DarkVador. It makes sense as both /θ/ and syllabic /ɹ/ would be difficult in French, but for a second I sort of took offense to the name change, lol

#StarWars #linguistics #phonetics #phonology #languagecontact […]

History of the Faculty of Arts of the Comnenius University. I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and colleagues and talking about #bilingualism and #LanguageContact in history and about a fascinating document I discovered in the archives this summer!🤓🤩

Top 10 words we should steal from German Enjoy this tour of untranslatable German! Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🎉. Get 60% OFF your subscription during their Black Friday sa...

Top 10 words we should steal from German #linguistics #languagecontact #english #german

How 'blue' and 'green' appeared in a language that didn't have words for them A new study suggests the way a language divides up color space can be influenced by contact with other languages. Tsimane' people who learned Spanish as a second language began to classify blue and gr...

How 'blue' and 'green' appeared in a language that didn't have words for them #languagecontact #contactlinguistics