We investigate whether regionally-associated primes can affect speech perception in two
lexical decision tasks in which New Zealand listeners were exposed to an Australian prime …

The questionnaire has a long tradition of being employed as an instrument of attitude
elicitation, and early on in the development of language attitudes as a field of study, this …

An individual's language can change in the moment due to the topic of conversation and
over time because of regional mobility. This paper investigates the relationship between …

Topic-based style-shifting refers to the variation pattern that, when people talk about a topic,
they shift to a linguistic style which is associated with the topic. Most of the research on topic …

Language is the best means of communication with the people in your surroundings. People
create or find word to name and describe new things which they never saw, examining the …

This chapter considers research since 2010 in language variation and change in New
Zealand English (NZE), te reo Maāori (the Maāori language) and New Zealand sign …

Abstract The Cabo-Verdean Creole (CVC) subject domain has clitic and tonic pronouns that
often amalgamate in double subject pronoun constructions; the possibility of a zero-subject …

This paper introduces the palatalized nasal [nʲ] as an allophonic realization of coronal/n/in
Cairene Arabic. The palatalized variants of the phonemes previously described in acoustic …

As a potential bilingual resource, loanwords play a very important role in many natural
language processing tasks. If loanwords in a low-resource language can be identified …

The thesis investigates variation in English loanwords into Saudi Arabic, triangulating across
the results of three experimental tasks [non-word perception (oddity task), real loanword …