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Record W572227599

De l'exploration du multilinguisme dans les villes africaines = Exploring multilingualism in African urban cities

2012· book· fr· W572227599 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueHarmattan eBooks · 2012
Typebook
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLinguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLanguage shiftEthnic groupArabicFirst languageCapital cityPopulationLinguisticsGeographyIdentity (music)MultilingualismOfficial languageHomogeneousPsychologySociologyDemographyAnthropologyMathematicsEconomic geographyArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper investigates the process of language maintenance and language shift among ethnic minority groups living in Dilling city, the Nuba Mountains, and Khartoum, the capital city of Sudan. A 22-item questionnaire was used to collect data on language proficiency, language use, and language attitude. The results show that a considerable number of younger.-generation migrants have adopted Arabic as their primary language. Arabic was also used predominantly in most domains of communx'cation. Although many respondents showed a positive attitude to their ethnxc languages, they actually did not make any effort to maintain them. The analysis suggests that language shift to Arabic in Dilling xs~ more pronounced than that in Khartoum. The main reason behind this difference is that a significant portion of the sample population in Khartoum belongs to the Southern groups who proved to be bigger in size, more homogeneous, and highly proud of their ethnx'c and cultural identity. Another possible reason is that while ethnic individuals from the same groups tend to live together in certain areas in Khartoum, those in Dilling Ixve in scattered areas around the cxty. Introduction Ho\mes (2000) contends that language shift tends to be slower among communities where a minority language is highly valued. That is, a positive attitude toward a language will help its speakers make every effort to maintain it. Negative attitudes, on the other hand, may lead to Zack of such efforts and consequently accelerate the process of language shift toward the dominant language. This assumption has been confirmed by S\avik (200 ) who found a strong correlation between negative attitudes towards Maltese and rapid shift to English among Maltese migrants in Canada. Studies on language attitudes in the Sudanese context indicate that ethnic migrants in Khartoum are undergoing a significant shift to Arabic in spite of the positive attitudes they hold

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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)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.692
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.099
GPT teacher head0.257
Teacher spread0.158 · 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