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Peer reviewedAuger, Julie – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Discusses a corpus-based study that focuses on word epenthesis.Provides quantitative evidence that vowel epenthesis applies categorically in some environments and variably in others. Probabilistic analysis demonstrates that the variable pattern is constrained by a complex interplay of linguistic factors. Interprets such grammatical conditioning as…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Grammar, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedWatson, Catherine I.; MacLagan, Margaret; Harrington, Jonathan – Language Variation and Change, 2000
Provides acoustic evidence that in the last 50 years New Zealand English (NZE) has undergone a substantial vowel shift. Two sets of data are studied: the Otago corpus, recorded in 1995, and the Mobile Unit Corpus, recorded in 1948. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Databases, English
Peer reviewedSchluter, Julia – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Investigates the redundantly marked comparative "worser" in relation to its irregular, but etymologically justified, counterpart, "worse." Examines the diachronic development of the form as well as its distribution in the written language of the 16th and 17th centuries. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Language Variation
Peer reviewedSharma, Devyani – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Examines a case of dialectal variation in a subpart of the tense-modality aspect system of Indian English. Focuses on functions associated with an existing form: the use of the pluperfect "had" + V-"ed" construction. Contrasts this usage with that of British and American English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Usage
