Thomas D Cravens
Biographic Data
| ID | 549726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas D Cravens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas D |
| FAMILY NAME | Cravens |
| SIGNATURE | CRAVENS T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Italia linguistica and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages requires member states that have ratified and signed to support the survival and use of longstanding minority languages within their borders. While the Charter offers some guidance in the selection of qualified languages, its definitions are far from rigorous and leave considerable room for arbitrary selection. Moreover, the selections are left entirely to government entities of each state. …
Variation and reconstruction / edited by Thomas D. Cravens.
The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence from Germanic, either Proto-Germanic (Joseph, Schwink), or daughter languages such as Dutch (Goss & Howell), Afrikaans (Roberge), Newcastle English (M…
Romance Lenition
Sociolinguistic subversion of a phonological hierarchy
The theoretical view that sound change is selective is attractive to specialists in language variation and change, who often encounter diachronic developments which appear to propagate through phonological systems selectively, frequently by phonetically defined classes. Yet two areas remain ill understood: how innovations affect members within a narrowly defined class, and what effects extrasystemic factors can have on selective change. This stud…
Issues and Theory in Romance Linguistics
Linguistics in the Curriculum
W e might quibble with the author regarding the first part of the above statement, but many who read these words will no doubt agree that the vast majority of people, and not just know deplorably little about either language in general, or in particular. Stalker's central point is that this is in part the result of unfortunate lacunae in the general university curriculum, and leads to an inability of the educated public to address language issues…
Relative salience of gender and class in a situation of multiple competing norms
One of the most consistent findings to emerge from sociolinguistic research is that “men use more nonstandard forms, less influenced by the social stigma directed against them; or, conversely, women use more standard forms, responding to the overt prestige associated with them” (Labov, 1990:210). With regard to change, these findings indicate that “women lead in both the acquisition of prestige patterns and the elimination of stigmatized forms” (…
Loanwords and Phonological Methodology
Teaching a Heritage Language to Dialect-Speaking Students
Advances in Romance Linguistics
Intervocalic Consonant Weakening in a Phonetic-Based Strength Phonology
Article INTERVOCALIC CONSONANT WEAKENING IN A PHONETIC-BASED STRENGTH PHONOLOGY: FOLEYAN HIERARCHIES AND THE GORGIA TOSCANA was published on January 1, 1984 in the journal Theoretical Linguistics (volume 11, issue 3)
Els parlars
Relative salience of gender and class in a situation of multiple competing norms
One of the most consistent findings to emerge from sociolinguistic research is that “men use more nonstandard forms, less influenced by the social stigma directed against them; or, conversely, women use more standard forms, responding to the overt prestige associated with them” (Labov, 1990:210). With regard to change, these findings indicate that “women lead in both the acquisition of prestige patterns and the elimination of stigmatized forms” (…
Sociolinguistic subversion of a phonological hierarchy
The theoretical view that sound change is selective is attractive to specialists in language variation and change, who often encounter diachronic developments which appear to propagate through phonological systems selectively, frequently by phonetically defined classes. Yet two areas remain ill understood: how innovations affect members within a narrowly defined class, and what effects extrasystemic factors can have on selective change. This stud…
Linguistics in the Curriculum
W e might quibble with the author regarding the first part of the above statement, but many who read these words will no doubt agree that the vast majority of people, and not just know deplorably little about either language in general, or in particular. Stalker's central point is that this is in part the result of unfortunate lacunae in the general university curriculum, and leads to an inability of the educated public to address language issues…
Els parlars
Intervocalic Consonant Weakening in a Phonetic-Based Strength Phonology
Article INTERVOCALIC CONSONANT WEAKENING IN A PHONETIC-BASED STRENGTH PHONOLOGY: FOLEYAN HIERARCHIES AND THE GORGIA TOSCANA was published on January 1, 1984 in the journal Theoretical Linguistics (volume 11, issue 3)
Advances in Romance Linguistics
Loanwords and Phonological Methodology
Teaching a Heritage Language to Dialect-Speaking Students
Relative salience of gender and class in a situation of multiple competing norms
One of the most consistent findings to emerge from sociolinguistic research is that “men use more nonstandard forms, less influenced by the social stigma directed against them; or, conversely, women use more standard forms, responding to the overt prestige associated with them” (Labov, 1990:210). With regard to change, these findings indicate that “women lead in both the acquisition of prestige patterns and the elimination of stigmatized forms” (…
Linguistics in the Curriculum
W e might quibble with the author regarding the first part of the above statement, but many who read these words will no doubt agree that the vast majority of people, and not just know deplorably little about either language in general, or in particular. Stalker's central point is that this is in part the result of unfortunate lacunae in the general university curriculum, and leads to an inability of the educated public to address language issues…
Issues and Theory in Romance Linguistics
Romance Lenition
Sociolinguistic subversion of a phonological hierarchy
The theoretical view that sound change is selective is attractive to specialists in language variation and change, who often encounter diachronic developments which appear to propagate through phonological systems selectively, frequently by phonetically defined classes. Yet two areas remain ill understood: how innovations affect members within a narrowly defined class, and what effects extrasystemic factors can have on selective change. This stud…
Variation and reconstruction / edited by Thomas D. Cravens.
The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence from Germanic, either Proto-Germanic (Joseph, Schwink), or daughter languages such as Dutch (Goss & Howell), Afrikaans (Roberge), Newcastle English (M…
Italia linguistica and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages requires member states that have ratified and signed to support the survival and use of longstanding minority languages within their borders. While the Charter offers some guidance in the selection of qualified languages, its definitions are far from rigorous and leave considerable room for arbitrary selection. Moreover, the selections are left entirely to government entities of each state. …
Philosophy (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Medieval European Literature and History (3 works)