Edited by Matilde Vida-Castro and Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz
The Continuity of Linguistic Change presents a collection of selected papers in honour of Professor Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda. The essays revolve around the study of linguistic variation and the mechanisms and processes associated with linguistic change, a field to which Villena-Ponsoda has… read more
Edited by Juan-Andrés Villena-Ponsoda, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro
This volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), which was held at the University of Malaga (Spain), from June 6 to 9, 2017. The volume includes plenaries by Manuel Almeida (“Language hybridism: On the origin of… read more
El español hablado en la ciudad de Málaga puede representarse en la actualidad mediante un modelo teórico fiable y compacto gracias a los diversos trabajos que desde hace más de veinticinco años se han encargado de describir, analizar y explicar esta variedad lingüística del sur de España… read more
Este trabajo muestra los resultados de los análisis de los efectos que ejercen las variables estratificacionales y personales sobre un conjunto de variables léxicas obtenidas a partir de un muestreo basado en pruebas de disponibilidad léxica. Apoyados en una herramienta semiautomática de… read more
The aim of this paper is to show an original method of calculating individual lexical richness. This method leads to a non-linear optimization. A randomized algorithm, Simulated Annealing, is used in order to carry out the optimization. This procedure has allowed us to represent a function from… read more
The aim of this paper is to show how social stratification and small-scale variables
such as social network and social history, interact in explaining why lowprestige
dialect use persists in spite of the current urban middle-class trends
of convergence towards either the national or the regional… read more
Prototype Theory offers one of the most accepted models for semantic memory organization. Lexical availability trials provide investigators with a faster and easier means of observing this cognitive organization, since lists of available lexicon are generated from associations relating some… read more
