The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004529458_012" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004529458_012</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This chapter investigates how language contact with the Austronesian lingua franca, Alor Malay, leads to lexical semantic changes in the lexicon of the Papuan language, Abui. Using a variationist approach, it examines the use of a subset of verbs of visual perception, falling, change of state, across four age-groups of Abui-Alor Malay bilinguals. Following the apparent-time construct, the use of these verbs is compared among the four groups in order to understand how semantic change unfolds within a speech community. The results reveal that (pre)adolescents and young adults exhibit very strong tendencies of generalization in all three verbal domains, while adults do so in only one verbal domain. This study illustrates the unique trajectory of every verb in language contact settings based on external factors (contact) and internal factors (its patterns of use, polysemy, and frequency). This study also offers some support to the apparent-time construct in the field of lexical semantics—suggesting that changes found in (pre)adolescents’ speech are likely to carry on into young adulthood. It thus challenges claims that increased exposure in adulthood can enhance L2 lexico-semantic learning.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui

Popis výsledku anglicky

This chapter investigates how language contact with the Austronesian lingua franca, Alor Malay, leads to lexical semantic changes in the lexicon of the Papuan language, Abui. Using a variationist approach, it examines the use of a subset of verbs of visual perception, falling, change of state, across four age-groups of Abui-Alor Malay bilinguals. Following the apparent-time construct, the use of these verbs is compared among the four groups in order to understand how semantic change unfolds within a speech community. The results reveal that (pre)adolescents and young adults exhibit very strong tendencies of generalization in all three verbal domains, while adults do so in only one verbal domain. This study illustrates the unique trajectory of every verb in language contact settings based on external factors (contact) and internal factors (its patterns of use, polysemy, and frequency). This study also offers some support to the apparent-time construct in the field of lexical semantics—suggesting that changes found in (pre)adolescents’ speech are likely to carry on into young adulthood. It thus challenges claims that increased exposure in adulthood can enhance L2 lexico-semantic learning.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Traces of Contact in the Lexicon: Austronesian and Papuan Studies

ISBN

978-90-04-52893-2

Počet stran výsledku

29

Strana od-do

392-420

Počet stran knihy

452

Název nakladatele

Brill

Místo vydání

Leiden

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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