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“I would really like to speak a little more like a German”—weird way to refer to your way of speaking if you’re already German, isn’t it? Well, for the German-Turkish women aged 16-23 we interviewed in Berlin-Kreuzberg, it is, in fact, quite usual. ⬇️ #linguistweets #TW1615 Example 1: 	“I would really...
Speaking/sounding ‘German’ is an ethnic categorization constructed as desirable & socially valued, but also as non-belonging to the unmarked monoglossic people. Yet being classified in an imaginary homogenous group of people ‘with a migration background’ is also problematic. ⬇️ Example 2: 	“Boah, you spea...
Because of their ethnicity, Turkish-German women get compliments about their German—an apparently positive stance othering them as the “good migrant student” (Bartlett 2007: 217). Refusing to perform this role does not prevent them from experiencing linguistic insecurity. ⬇️ Example 3: 	“well till toda...
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#linguistweets #TW1300 O alinhamento tonal consiste na coordenação temporal entre o tom e os elementos da cadeia segmental da fala. Esse fenômeno, relevante para a diferenciação dialetal, vem sendo discutido nos estudos dedicados à análise entoacional das interrogativas do ALiB.
Francisca (2020), ao apurar as questões totais (Você vai sair hoje?) nas regiões Norte e Sul, notou a produtividade do acento tonal nuclear L*+ H. Para captar como os tons atuam ao longo da tônica, mediu a duração de L e concluiu que ele ocupa geralmente cerca de 1/3 da sílaba.
Nas questões totais dos municípios catarinenses, Câmara (2021) também observou a predominância do alinhamento associado ao tom baixo (L*+H). Entretanto, Itajaí apresentou um alto índice de alinhamento associado ao tom alto (L+H*).
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#linguistweets #lt1515 Today we’re talking about a new phenomenon on the Francophone Twittersphere: people behind Twitter accounts of cats talking like a cat, as if they were a cat. For English, we know it as Lolspeak/Kitty Pidgin: it’s a Special Internet Language Variety. 1/
Anglophone cats are known for their baby voice + specific ortho, gramm & lex features. Francophone cats combine a childlike code AND a formal register. Both features create the sociolinguistic persona of cats as ambivalent animals… who made it into the newspaper! (trad: ALT) 2/ Translation into English: “20 Minutes investigated the ‘
I explored 100 Twitter accounts of cats. My hypothesis was that very few, pivotal accounts are leading sociolinguistic change and the dissemination of pragmatic and sociolinguistic norms of use—one of them being @SutterlinKatz, self-established & recognized as such (trad: ALT) 3/ Translation into English:   - “who is the first litcat who
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INTENTIONALITY--degree of an agent's involvement in an event--is crucial for the linguistic encoding of causality in Spanish & Basque

BUT🤔

Do Spanish & Basque speakers conceptualise causality in the same way❓

@iraideia @MendigurenL @psylex_lab @unizar #linguistweets #It0700
𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘

-CAL Stimuli: 58 causal events clips

-Informants: 32 L1 Spanish & 22 L1 Basque speakers

-Tasks:
1.🧠non-verbal categorisation➡️attribution of responsibility
2.🗣️verbal description➡️"what happened?"

-Data:📹💻 Image
𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐒📢

🗣️Verbal task:

-Similar linguistic structures in Basque & Spanish to explicitly encode the opposition between Intentionality vs. Unintentionality

➡️Spanish = Basque Image
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#linguistweets As disjuntivas já oferecem em sua formulação as opções de resposta: você quer uva ou maçã? Sabemos que uma das funções da entoação é auxiliar na construção de modalidades frásicas. Assim perguntamos, quais são as marcas entoacionais dessas questões no pb? #lt0300
Para isso, observamos o comportamento do parâmetro acústico da frequência fundamental (F0) na fala de informantes de todo o Brasil. A F0 é responsável pela nossa percepção dos graves e agudos e ao lado da intensidade e da duração constrói padrões melódicos dotados de significado
A curva da F0 na disjunção manifesta-se com uma elevação expressiva antes do "ou" e uma queda em direção ao fim da pergunta (como exemplificado abaixo). Esse padrão apresentou variação nos falares brasileiros. As diferenças foram encontradas em pontos chave da pergunta. #entoacao
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