Questions tagged [register]
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Do any languages mark social distinctions other than gender and status?
Many languages have pronouns that reflect gender, and some have pronouns that reflect relative social hierarchy or formality. (To pick an example I actually know, in Dutch the second person singular ...
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Just how silent is the French e muet?
I know the e muet is usually considered silent. That being said, it is still often pronounced in songs and poetry (famously, in the Marseillaise). This is completely contrary to the situation in ...
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What is the historical-linguistic origin of the high variety of the Burmese language?
In Myanmar (Burma), a state of diglossia exists.
How did the high (formal) variety originate historically? Did it use to have native speakers at some point in the historical development of the ...
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register variation: unbalanced corpus sample
I'm doing a small pilot study on evidentiality in a language I work on.
I'm looking at two evidential markers, -mi that is said to mark the source of knowledge as personal, and -shi that marks ...
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vocal register factors
The wiki entry for vocal register lists 5 factors that contribute to it:
phonation
pitch
timbre
resonance
vocal break
However, isn't vocal break the same as resonance?
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Germanic words together with Romance words
Do combinations of words of Germanic origin with words of Latin origin have any influence on the level or register of language?
I can think of examples like:
exquisite work, unwavering resolution, ...
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Is Italian the only modern language that uses the feminine 3rd person singular pronoun for formal speech?
Is Italian the only modern language that uses the feminine 3rd person singular pronoun (Lei) for formal speech, regardless of the gender of the 2nd person singular addressee?
cf. T–V_distinction#...
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Adding Sounds and Slowing Pronunciation for "Proper Speech"
I routinely hear a relative add syllables to words to sound more "correct." "menu" becomes "men-a-you." "Daily" becomes "day-uh-lee." It seems to be ...
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Most complex examples of tones in tonal languages
Wondering what the most complex examples are of tonal languages, and what its features are. In Chinese there are 4 or 5 tones, but they are relatively simple (contour changes, move up, down, down then ...
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