The Resilient Word: Linguistic Preservation and Innovation among Old Colony Mennonites in Latin America
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Language presents a central issue in the Old Colony Mennonite communities in Latin America.Prevalent in both Russian Mennonite history and contemporary Latin American Old Colony communities, the intergenerational stability of societal multilingualism is in keeping with common perceptions of Old Colony cultural practices.An implicit emphasis on 'preservation' aligns well with narratives of historical constancy of tradition in the Old Colony (cf.Hedges, 1996;Warkentin, 2010), and fits with a general expectation of change-averse behaviour on the part of groups to which the label 'conservative' is applied.This perspective on the maintenance of multiple in-group languages, which associates sociolinguistic stability with a degree of linguistic stasis, has perhaps contributed to language use as an aspect of Old Colony cultural practice receiving somewhat less scholarly attention than either material-cultural or social-organizational aspects of these communities.Yet, concentration only on the conservation of specific functional niches for in-group languages belies considerable linguistic
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it