Taglish, the mixture of Tagalog and English, is prevalent among Filipinos inside and outside of the Philippines. It is found nearly everywhere in the country and in diasporic communities in the United States: it is present ...

In this study I analyze the linguistic attitudes held by Polish and German speakers in the border towns of Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany and Slubice, Poland, held together by a cross-border university. I consider the ...

This thesis examines language attitudes toward Swahili, English, and other languages in Tanzania. Swahili and English, Tanzania’s two official languages, are analyzed to a greater extent than other languages. However, the ...

Orality and literacy are two very different yet permanently related aspects of human language. All languages have their origins in primary orality, and only a fraction of all existing languages have actually ever been ...

This thesis focuses on the phonological connections between three modern varieties (Mitla, Isthmus, San Lucas Quiaviní of the Zapotec language and Colonial Valley Zapotec, a variety spoken roughly 500 years ago. Zapotec ...

A rapid linguistic shift is happening in the Chinese community in Argentina, one of the newest immigrant groups in the country. Second- and third-generation Chinese-Argentines are quickly abandoning their home language ...

In this thesis, I address the issue of whether there is a difference between listening to and reading a book, and how much it is possible to determine if one is better than the other for the purposes of retaining information. ...