Studies in Romance Linguistics

Mallinson, G. J.; Hagiwara, Michio P.

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“…Sociolinguists have often called attention to the importance of connecting community needs and scholarship (Labov, 1982;Wolfram, 1993), working models of CES that mutually benefit the community and academia (Rickford, 1997) through bilateral and synergistic relationships (Kendall & Wolfram, 2016, p. 145). Recent examples of CES in sociolinguistics include the creation of community videos and podcasts in Baltimore (Mallinson, 2011); a collection of linguistic landscapes in Hawai'i (Higgins, 2020(Higgins, , 2021; course projects where students investigate language in their own lives (Alim, 2010); programs where graduate students, undergraduate students, and high school students and classes develop sociolinguistic research (Bucholtz et al, 2011(Bucholtz et al, , 2015; projects involving community healthcare (Feuerherm et al, 2021;Martínez & Schwartz, 2012;Showstack, 2020); and a project on language in North Carolina including interviews, videos, books, and dialect curriculum (Reaser & Wolfram, 2007;Wolfram et al, 1993).…”

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Student Perceptions of Community-Engaged Scholarship Courses: Developing a Sociolinguistic Corpus on the U.S.–Mexico Border

Christoffersen,

Villanueva,

Bessett

2023

International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement

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Community-based sociolinguistic corpora are collections of informal interviews with community members who comprise an important dataset in sociolinguistics. Although some scholars have involved students in developing sociolinguistic corpora, few studies have examined students’ perspectives on these projects. Furthermore, very few studies examine the perceptions of underrepresented college students who are themselves members of the surrounding community. The present study analyzes the perceptions of students involved in community-engaged scholarship (CES) courses at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on the U.S.–Mexico border. In these CES courses, predominantly Mexican American students contribute to the documentation of language in South Texas through the Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (Christoffersen & Bessett, 2019). A qualitative analysis of 38 student responses reveals six significant themes: a greater knowledge of transcription, increased connection with one’s own community, enhanced understanding from experiential learning and research experience, development of professional skills, a heightened appreciation of local language varieties, and pride in participating in a large-scale research project. These responses demonstrate the benefits of CES and serve to encourage sociolinguists to incorporate community-based corpora development in linguistics and language classes. More broadly, the results highlight the importance and impact of CES experiences for underrepresented college students, especially those incorporating course-based undergraduate research experiences.

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Section: Community-engaged Scholarship In Sociolinguisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Student Perceptions of Community-Engaged Scholarship Courses: Developing a Sociolinguistic Corpus on the U.S.–Mexico Border

Christoffersen,

Villanueva,

Bessett

2023

International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement

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Development of Gender Classifications: Modeling the Historical Change from Latin to French

Polinsky¹,

Everbroeck²

2003

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We present and analyze the results of a connectionist simulation which modeled the reanalysis of the Latin gender system in its transition to Old French. The network reanalysis was based solely on formal cues (word endings and analogy with other words) and on frequency. The results are in accordance with the historical data, and certain errors in simulations are also amenable to principled explanations. Simulations improve dramatically when the networks incorporate information about the Celtic substrate which presumably interfered with gender assignment in Gallo-Romance. This finding has a bearing on issues of gender assignment and processing in bilinguals. Simulations also improve with the introduction of more elaborate recurrent networks, which suggests implications for future connectionist modeling. In particular, the results could be applied to the modeling of gender change in other Romance languages and to the modeling of comparative Romance gender systems. The method proposed here would be advantageous for such simulations since it allows the modeler to take into account a rich variety of facts reflecting actual linguistic history.

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Studies in Romance Linguistics

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Student Perceptions of Community-Engaged Scholarship Courses: Developing a Sociolinguistic Corpus on the U.S.–Mexico Border

Student Perceptions of Community-Engaged Scholarship Courses: Developing a Sociolinguistic Corpus on the U.S.–Mexico Border

Development of Gender Classifications: Modeling the Historical Change from Latin to French

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