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Linguistic effects of English on Luyia languages

2017· article· es· W2785315060 on OpenAlexaff
Lynn Kisembe

Bibliographic record

VenueEstudios de Lingüística Aplicada · 2017
Typearticle
Languagees
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultilingual Education and Policy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinguisticsLanguage contactSwahiliVocabularyAffect (linguistics)Linguistic demographyComputer scienceLanguage transferHistorySociologyNatural languageComprehension approach

Abstract

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When contact occurs between two or more languages, there is bound to be some sort of language change, which can affect either of the languages concerned. The nature and extent of the linguistic change is dependant on the circumstances of the social, cultural and political relations that exist between the linguistic communities concerned. The goal of this paper is to examine the influence English has had on Luyia languages spoken in western Kenya. English has had both an intensive and extensive contact with the Kenyan speaking communities for nearly one hundred years, and due to this, there has been a considerable influence of English on Kenyan ethnic languages in all aspects of language areas. I discuss three linguistic effects in this paper: the first of such is borrowing of vocabulary from English which is phonologically adjusted to conform to the phonotactic constraints of the Luyia languages, the second is code-switching and code-mixing between English and the Luyia languages and finally language shift that has resulted to language ‘death’ in some cases.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.058
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.830
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.058
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.428
Teacher spread0.404 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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