The Contact Diffusion of Linguistic Practices
| Autor: | Carolyn O'Meara, Rodrigo Romero Méndez, Katharine T. Donelson, Gilles Polian, Néstor Hernández Green, Alyson Eggleston, María de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez, Samuel Herrera Castro, Enrique L. Palancar, Alejandra Capistrán Garza, Gabriela Pérez Báez, Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Randi Moore, Elena Benedicto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Linguistics and Language
Diffusion (acoustics) Mesoamerica business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Spatial cognition computer.software_genre Language and Linguistics Linguistics Indigenous Literacy Geography Language contact Frame (artificial intelligence) Artificial intelligence business computer Natural language processing Reference frame media_common |
| Zdroj: | Language Dynamics and Change. 5:169-201 |
| ISSN: | 2210-5832 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/22105832-00502002 |
| Popis: | We examine the extent to which practices of language use may be diffused through language contact and areally shared, using data on spatial reference frame use by speakers of eight indigenous languages from in and around the Mesoamerican linguistic area and three varieties of Spanish. Regression models show that the frequency of L2-Spanish use by speakers of the indigenous languages predicts the use of relative reference frames in the L1 even when literacy and education levels are accounted for. A significant difference in frame use between the Mesoamerican and non-Mesoamerican indigenous languages further supports the contact diffusion analysis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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