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Oct 10, 2024 · Dialects are variations of language that occur within a specific region or community. These variations can include differences in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. Dialects matter because they are an essential part of linguistic diversity. They reflect the unique histories, cultures, and identities of different communities around the world.
Sep 1, 2016 · A common explanation is that different languages arise from the gradual accumulation of random changes. Here, we argue that, beyond these random factors, linguistic differences, from sounds to grammars, may also reflect adaptations to different environments in which the languages are learned and used. The aspects of the environment that could ...
- Gary Lupyan, Rick Dale
- 2016
Sep 3, 2018 · The Dialect Atlas data were turned into distance matrices for the distance-based analyses. The analyses were done separately for the data sets of municipal dialects and of dialect groups. In the analysis of municipal dialects, we used linguistic differences between all 471 municipal dialects as the dependent variable (Additional file 4 ...
- Terhi Honkola, Terhi Honkola, Kalle Ruokolainen, Kaj J.J. Syrjänen, Unni Päivä Leino, Ilpo Tammi, Ni...
- 2018
Feb 25, 2020 · Specifically, we test the hypothesis that linguistic conventions are contingent on environmental affordances, that is, that conceptual construal expressed in language is motivated by structure ...
- Jonas Nölle, Jonas Nölle, Riccardo Fusaroli, Gregory J. Mills, Kristian Tylén
- 2020
May 3, 2019 · Associations between global patterns of language diversity and climate are consistent with the ecological risk hypothesis, that stable productive climates allow human cultures to persist in ...
Jun 19, 2024 · A comprehensive review of prior claims about the role of language in thinking is outside the scope of this Perspective (for reviews, see for example 9,10,12,16,71,178,179,180,181,182).However, we ...
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May 2, 2023 · Abstract This article presents a new type of comparative linguistic survey, analyzing (socio)linguistic variation in a database of 1,155 grammatical constructions drawn from 42 diverse languages. We focus in particular on variation in the expression of grammatical meanings, and the extent to which grammatical variation differentiates geographic dialects. This is the first study we know of to ...
