10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ISOGLOSS»
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isogloss in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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An isogloss-also called a heterogloss (see Etymology below)-is the geographical boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology, ...
A dialect area or region is defined by an isogloss that represents the outer limit of
the communities that share a given linguistic feature. If a point on the map where
the feature is marked as present is a hit, and one where it is absent a miss, the ...
William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg, 2006
*okto(u) 'eight', Goth. ahtau, Lith. astuonl, Skt. astau This tendency, apparent in
Indo-Iranian, Balto-Slavonic, Albanian, and Germanic, is not found in Celtic, Italic,
and Greek, and is regarded as an important 'isogloss' for grouping the IE.
Leonard Robert Palmer, 1954
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Recent Developments in Historical Phonology
be seen that the isogloss admits of another interpretation. It may be that the
deductive innovation did not occur in the enclave dialects; in this case, the
isogloss does reflect the contrast between an innovation and the absence of that
innovation, ...
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Analysing Variation in English
250), revealing a mixture of isogloss bundling (particularly along the Scottish–
English border), transitional areas (particularly north Northumberland and south
Dumfriesshire), and a fair amount of random distribution everywhere, especially
in ...
Warren Maguire, April McMahon, 2011
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Articles on Dialectology, Including: Accent (Linguistics), ...
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A Glossary of Sociolinguistics
Sometimes less happily known as 'Hiberno-English' and, even less happily, as '
Anglo-Irish'. isogloss A term from dialectology for a line drawn on a dialect map
marking off an area which has one particular variant of a linguistic form from ...
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The Use of Welsh: A Contribution to Sociolinguistics
FIGURE 2.1 The Rhenish Fan (after Bloomfield, 1933) Key: Isogloss 1,
makenlmaxen; Isogloss 2, 'Mix; Isogloss 3, dorp/dorf; Isogloss 4, dat/das, First
variant found north of each isogloss. As noted earlier, dialectology came to
prominence in the ...
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Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case Studies ...
Isogloss One: Demonstrative adjectives The first isogloss that I will use to show
areal consistency is the ordering of the demonstrative adjective in relationship to
the head noun. Since demonstratives precede their head nouns in almost all the
...
Éva Ágnes Csató, Bo Isaksson, Carina Jahani, 2005
The kind of effect produced by ongoing linguistic change is shown by the heavy
isogloss in Map 22. There are two words for "main road", stmt 'street' and herepap
literally 'army path'; the isogloss marks the boundary between the areas where ...
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ISOGLOSS»
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isogloss is used in the context of the following news items.
'The Old Vedic language had its origin outside the subcontinent. But …
... of the satem-centum isogloss reach a meeting point in this region, namely Indo-Iranian family and the three different Tocharian languages of ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
606 - A Cucumber Map of Europe
The cucumber clearly has a bunch of fascinating stories to tell - and one of them involves this rather intriguing isogloss [12] map. The map shows the word for ... «Big Think, Apr 13»
585 - Poitiers All Over Again: Pastry, Islam and Isoglosses
The result is a homemade, but statistically relevant isogloss map [8] showing the distribution of both variants throughout France. "Turns out our town Poitiers is ... «Big Think, Oct 12»
The 'Arse That Jack Built
He's off in search of an isogloss — a kind of linguistic boundary line where accent and dialect changes. Is there a street where in one dwelling people will talk ... «Radio Times, Aug 12»
Dialects: Reveling in Linguistic Freedom
When the features of a particular dialect pattern change, and are mapped, a geographical boundary or 'isogloss' can be determined. Changes ... «Decoded Science, Dec 11»
Strange maps and cartographic curiousities from Frank Jacobs
The technical term for these maps is an "isogloss" map, and some of the pioneering research in that by University of Michigan linguistic ... «AnnArbor.com, Feb 11»
500 - It's 10:15 in Germany. Do You Know Where Your Isoglosses …
This isogloss map (3) shows that in a large part of north-western Germany, from the Danish to the French border, the preferred option is viertel nach zehn ... «Big Think, Feb 11»
A walking tour of bogus language history
... have trouble with this, that's their problem. You have to draw a dialect isogloss somewhere." © Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. «Boston Globe, May 08»
