Heike Wiese

Heike Wiese
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | HU Berlin · Department of German Studies and Linguistics

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Professor for German in Multilingual Contexts, Humboldt-University of Berlin. Research interests: Multilingualism, Urban contact dialects ("Kiezdeutsch" and others), Linguistic Diversity, Linguistic Architecture, Grammar-Pragmatics Interface

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In this study, we investigate the three-dot sign as a discourse marker (DM) with textual, subjective and intersubjective discourse functions. As a graphical marker that is used across languages, the three-dot sign is especially suitable for comparative studies and dynamics in language contact. Our corpus study targeting instant messages of differen...
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In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation” (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define “register” as recurring variation in language use depending...
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Language contact research is a vibrant discipline that is gaining in importance due to the increasing mobility of speakers and thus of languages. The essays in this volume present recent research on scenarios in which varieties of German confront one or more contact languages in different constellations. Varieties are also included which historical...
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Using the cover term "Kiezdeutsch", we discuss urban contact dialects in Germany, drawing on different lines of research with different conceptual/theoretical backgrounds. We look at the setting of Kiezdeutsch, a society whose strongly dominant monolingual habitus contrasts with its linguistically highly diverse makeup (Section 1); give pointers to...
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This is the introduction to a collected volume "Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South." In this introduction, we define urban contact dialects, explain our perspective on examples from countries with a strong monolingual habitus vs. those with a multilingual societal perspective, and give an overview o...
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Public discourse in a range of countries has been reported to be characterised by Othering practices that support dichotomies between a national and monolingual “in-group” and multilingual speakers who are constructed as secondary citizens and often associated with special needs, even if they have grown up locally. Less in the focus of analysis is...
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In diesem Kapitel werden neue sprachliche Praktiken unter Jugendlichen im sprachlich diversen urbanen Raum Europas unter der Perspektive urbaner Kontaktdialekte untersucht. Diese Dialekte sind durch eine besondere sprachliche Dynamik charakterisiert, die im Zusammenspiel von Sprachkontakt und binnenstrukturellen Entwicklungstendenzen entsteht und e...
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The paper investigates sociolinguistic coherence and differentiation for the example of Namibian German (‘Namdeutsch’), based on corpus data and a copy-editing task. The Namdeutsch speech community draws on a local Namibian identity as well as an ethnic German identity. At the linguistic level, this leads to a tension between a tendency for Namdeut...
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We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a perspective and approached bilinguals and monolinguals on equal grounds. We targeted comparable language use in bilingual and monolingual speakers, crucially covering br...
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Public discourse in a range of countries has been reported to be characterised by Othering practices that support dichotomies between a national and monolingual “in-group” and multilingual speakers who are constructed as secondary citizens and often associated with special needs, even if they have grown up locally. Less in the focus of analysis is...
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I bring together two research strands that rarely interact and might even seem incommen-surable, namely sociolinguistic approaches to linguistic fluidity and multi-competence on the one hand, and structural approaches to linguistic coherence and grammatical systems on the other hand. I show that we can reconcile insights from these two strands in a...
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We investigate emoji as graphic discourse markers in German WhatsApp® messages. As comparably novel devices in the rapidly evolving domain of digital messenging, emoji provide an interesting example to observe change in progress. We present a corpus study and an experimental study. Main results are (i) an overall salience of subjective and intersub...
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Throughout history, cities have been a magnet for immigration, taking in a constant influx of new residents, both from more rural areas of the same region or country and from regions and countries further afar, who would bring with them a wealth of different dialects and languages. The heterogeneous and fluid character of urban speech communities m...
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This chapter looks at cities as vibrant sites of language contact. Urban areas have always been a magnet for immigration, from surrounding areas as well as from more distant regions and other countries, and as a result they have always been characterised by a rich diversity of social groups, (sub-)cultures, and the different languages, dialects, an...
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Recent findings from spoken language use outside formal standard German provide evidence for linearizations that violate the V2 constraint, suggesting that there might be extensions of V2 in German to a more liberal forefield that can also accommodate V3. Evidence for this was first reported from Kiezdeutsch, an urban dialect from informal peer-gro...
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In this paper, I describe a 'Language Situations' method that allows us to systematically tap into speakers' repertoires: it captures naturalistic productions across different communicative situations, including informal as well as formal, and written as well as spoken settings. In order to do so, the 'Language Situations' method combines the advan...
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This paper describes the corpus Deutsch in Namibia (DNam, 'German in Namibia'), which will be openly accessible via the Datenbank für Gesprochenes Deutsch (DGD, 'Database for Spoken German'). This corpus is a new digital resource that comprehensively and systematically documents the language use of the German-speaking minority in Namibia and relate...
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Kiez goes Uni-SchülerInnen untersuchen Sprachvariation und Mehrsprachigkeit mit MentorInnen der Universität Mit Unterstützung der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung im Rahmen ihres "Denk-werk"-Programms führten mehrsprachige Berliner SchülerInnen zusammen mit Studierenden und WissenschaftlerInnen der Germanistik der Universität Potsdam eigene Forschungsprojekte...
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Manuscript / Authors’ copy: a shorter version will appear as a contribution to HSK 30.4, "Language & Space: Deutsch" (de Gruyter), eds. Joachim Herrgen & Jürgen Erich Schmidt; Chapter 38.
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Mit Unterstützung der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung im Rahmen ihres „Denkwerk“- Programms führten mehrsprachige Berliner SchülerInnen zusammen mit Studierenden und WissenschaftlerInnen der Germanistik der Universität Potsdam eigene Forschungsprojekte zu selbstgewählten sprachwissenschaftlichen Themen durch. Themen waren u. a. ihre eigene Sprachpraxis und d...
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Registerdifferenzierung im Namdeutschen: Informeller und formeller Sprachgebrauch in einer vitalen Sprechergemeinschaft. English Abstract: Namibian German has an interesting status among German contact varieties outside Europe. It has its roots in colonisation, but is used by a speech community with German ancestry who live in Namibia today, which...
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In examples as (i), there are two constituents, rather than one, occupying the domain in front of the finite verb (the "forefield") in a German sentence, in violation of the Germanic V2 rule. (i) Heute ich werd meine Zigaretten mitbringen today I will my cigarettes with-bring 'Today, I will bring my cigarettes with me.' Accordingly, such exam...
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Sprache ist eine wesentliche Domäne zur Aushandlung sozialer Klassifikationen und Legitimationen und der Zuschreibung unterschiedlicher Gruppenzugehörigkeiten. Der Beitrag untersucht Prozesse in der sprachlichen Konstruktion sozialer Gruppen an einem spezifischen Fallbeispiel, nämlich der öffentlichen Diskussion zu Kiezdeutsch. Diese Diskussion lie...
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Among (post-)colonial varieties of German, Namibian German is a particularly interesting case. It has a unique status compared to the other extra-territorial varieties as well as to those in the German-speaking area in Europe. First, it is based on a speech community with German ancestry who still live in Namibia today, which distinguishes it from...
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Mit dem neuen Rahmenlehrplan für die Länder Brandenburg und Berlin wird der Kompetenzentwicklung der Schülerinnen und Schüler unter den Bedingungen lebensweltlicher Erfahrungen ein besonderer Stellenwert beigemessen. Der Sammelband enthält Beiträge, in denen den Lehrerinnen und Lehrern vielfältige Unterrichtsmaterialien und didaktische Anregungen f...
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In present-day German we find new word order options, particularly well-known from Turkish-German bilingual speakers in the contexts of new urban dialects, which allow violations of the canonical verb-second position in independent declarative clauscs. In these cases, two positions are occupied in the forefield in front of the finite verb, usually...
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Sprache ist eine wesentliche Domäne zur Aushandlung sozialer Klassifikationen und Legitimationen und der Zuschreibung unterschiedlicher Gruppenzugehörigkeiten. Der Beitrag untersucht Prozesse in der sprachlichen Konstruktion sozialer Gruppen an einem spezifischen Fallbeispiel, nämlich der öffentlichen Diskussion zu Kiezdeutsch. Diese Diskussion lie...
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This paper investigates evidence for linguistic coherence in new urban dialects that evolved in multiethnic and multilingual urban neighbourhoods. We propose a view of coherence as an interpretation of empirical observations rather than something that would be "out there in the data", and argue that this interpretation should be based on evidence o...
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This paper analyses usage restrictions on such noncanonical local expressions as Ich geh Kino 'I go cinema' compared to canonical full PPs with DP complement (? ins Kino 'to the cinema'). In public discourse, bare local NPs have become emblematic for Kiezdeutsch, a new way of speaking from multiethnic urban Germany, although they also appear in inf...
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Der Beitrag beschreibt neue Varianten von Majoritätssprachen, wie sie sich heute im mehrsprachigen urbanen Europa entwickeln, als neue urbane Dialekte. Diese Perspektive erlaubt es uns, systematische Charakteristika auf sprachstruktureller Ebene ebenso zu berücksichtigen wie ihre Variation in unterschiedlichen sprachlichen und sozialen Kontexten, ä...
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In Folge von Migration und generell gestiegener Mobilität ist das moderne Europa geprägt durch eine große Diversität, die sich auch auf sprachlicher Ebene niederschlägt. Insbesondere in den urbanen Zentren findet sich ein hohes Maß an Mehrsprachigkeit: Viele Sprecher/innen beherrschen nicht nur die Majoritätssprache des jeweiligen Landes, sondern b...
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We discuss an intervention programme for kindergarten and school teachers' continuing education in Germany that targets biases against language outside a perceived monolingual ‘standard’ and its speakers. The programme combines anti-bias methods relating to linguistic diversity with objectives of raising critical language awareness. Evaluation thro...
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New research on different areas of cognition, focusing on language, with contributions that treat topics explored in Ray Jackendoff's pioneering research. This volume offers new research in cognitive science by leading scholars, exploring different areas of cognition with an emphasis on language. The contributions—in such fields as linguistic theor...
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This paper analyses the expressions with pejorative functions in the dynamic multilinguals setting of urban German, and their possible Turkish sources. The focus of our investigation is on pejorative functions of mreduplication (“Cola Mola”). In addition, we discuss usages of “Scherz” / “Spaß” ‘joke, fun’ in urban German, as well as their Turkish c...
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Anhand von Korpusdaten und den Ergebnissen einer Sprecherbefragung untersuchen wir in diesem Beitrag grammatische und lexikalische Entwicklungen in zwei relativ neuen Varietäten des Gegenwartsdeutschen: Kiezdeutsch und Namdeutsch, die jeweils von urbanen mehrsprachigen Sprechergemeinschaften in Deutschland bzw. in Namibia getragen werden. Der Vergl...
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Introduction Contemporary urban multilingual settings in Europe lead to rich sources of language contact involving the majority languages and a range of typologically diverse minority languages, such as Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Kurdish, Croatian and Sranan. The linguistic outcomes of these settings may result in the emergence of what we shall refer t...
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This article investigates a public debate in Germany that put a special spotlight on the interaction of standard language ideologies with social dichotomies, centering on the question of whether Kiezdeutsch , a new way of speaking in multilingual urban neighbourhoods, is a legitimate German dialect. Based on a corpus of emails and postings to media...
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This paper discusses best practices for the syntactic annotation of noncanonical language, using Kiezdeutsch (’hood German) as a test case. Kiezdeutsch is a variety of German spoken by adolescents from multiethnic urban areas (Wiese, 2009; Freywald et al., 2011) and can be considered non-canonical in two ways. First, it is a spoken variety of Germa...
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This paper presents the first release of the KiezDeutsch Korpus (KiDKo), a new language resource with multiparty spoken dialogues of Kiezdeutsch, a newly emerging language variety spoken by adolescents from multiethnic urban areas in Germany. The first release of the corpus includes the transcriptions of the data as well as a normalisation layer an...
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Heike Wiese is Professor of Contemporary German Language at the University of Potsdam, Germany and Speaker at the university’s Centre for Language, Variation, and Migration. She has research interests in linguistic variation, grammar, lexicon, and linguistic architecture, and her most recent work has investigated the urban vernacular Kiezdeutsch (l...
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Nach einer Unterrichtsstunde, in der intensiv Präpositionen behandelt wurden, dreht sich eine Schü-lerin zu ihrer Freundin um und sagt "Lassma Cafeteria gehen, lan." Wie geht man mit so etwas um? War das Bemühen um korrekte Grammatik im Deutschunterricht völlig umsonst? Wieso erscheint hier ein türkisches Wort ("lan"-"Typ/Mann") im deutschen Satz?...
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We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms associated with processing light verb constructions such as “give a kiss”. These constructions consist of a semantically underspecified light verb (“give”) and an event nominal that contributes most of the meaning and also activates an argument structure of its own...
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This papers investigates the discursive processes at work in public debates on a type of new urban dialect that has been under intense, often heated public discussion in recent years: variants of majority languages that emerged in multiethnic and multilin-gual neighbourhoods in urban Europe. Against the background of findings from a range of Europe...
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In the domain of motion event encoding, many of the world’s languages fall into one of two types: verb-framed (the path is encoded in the verb) or satellite-framed (the path is encoded outside the verb in a prefix, particle or adverbial while the verb contains information about the manner of movement). A number of studies have investigated the lang...
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Language can strongly influence the emotional state of the recipient. In contrast to the broad body of experimental and neuroscientific research on semantic information and prosodic speech, the emotional impact of grammatical structure has rarely been investigated. One reason for this might be, that measuring effects of syntactic structure involves...
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This paper investigates a new urban vernacular that developed in linguistically diverse, mul-tiethnic and multilingual, areas in urban Germany, "Kiezdeutsch", from the perspective of German dialects. I show that the grammatical and pragmatic patterns we find here indicate a system in its own standing (rather than a mere accumulation of features) th...
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Das Potential multiethnischer Sprechergemeinschaften Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag behandelt den Sprachgebrauch in multiethnischen Sprechergemeinschaften im urbanen Raum. Ich zeige, dass die Varietät, die sich hier entwickelt, als neuer Dialekt des Deutschen verstanden werden kann. Dieser Dialekt ist gekennzeichnet durch Charakteristika auf lexikalis...
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List of terms (incl. languages) for the index: animacy Arabic Burmese classifier coercion collective counting / counting constructions / countability DP (functional layers) German grammatical semantics group nouns Hungarian indefinite article individuation Kurdish Mandarin measurement / measure constructions / measure units minimal parts object Per...
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Der Beitrag beschreibt ein Korpus spontansprachlicher Daten von Jugendlichen aus urbanen Wohngebieten und präsentiert Ergebnisse darauf basierender Korpusanalysen. Die Daten stammen aus Selbstaufnahmen von Gesprächen Berliner Jugendlicher (23 Ankersprecher/innen, 14 bis 17 Jahre alt). Das Korpus umfasst rund 333.000 Token. Den größeren Teil stellen...
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I give a unified account of numeral classifiers as lexical items that are reduced to the function of individuation in cardinal counting constructions with transnumeral nouns. I argue that individuation is a lexical-semantic phe- nomenon that triggers a focus shift from a whole set to its individual elements, but does not affect the conceptual repre...
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This paper discusses a hitherto undescribed usage of the particle so as a dedi-cated focus marker in contemporary German. I discuss grammatical and prag-matic characteristics of this focus marker, supporting my account with natural linguistic data and with controlled experimental evidence showing that so has a significant influence on speakers' und...
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In this article, I present evidence for an information-structural basis for linguistic variation in a German multiethnolect, Kiezdeutsch. Using data from word order variation and new particle usages in Kiezdeutsch, I show that variation that seems random from a morphosyntactic point of view, can be motivated by systematic choices at the level of in...
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Populäre Mythen vom ,gebrochenen Deutsch' bis zur ,doppelten Halbsprachigkeit' türkischstämmiger Jugendlicher in Deutschland Heike Wiese, Universität Potsdam Brigitte Handwerker gewidmet Populäre Mythen zum ‚Sprachverfall' in multiethnischen Wohngebieten Der Sprachgebrauch Jugendlicher in multiethnischen urbanen Wohngebieten Deutschlands ist seit l...
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This paper deals with Kiezdeutsch, a way of speaking that emerged among adolescents in multiethnic urban neighbourhoods of Germany. We argue for a view of Kiezdeutsch as a multiethnolect, based on: (a) A lin-guistic analysis of the lexical and grammatical characteristics that have been reported for it so far, and their interaction with information...
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Der Beitrag behandelt eine neue Jugendsprache aus multiethnischen urbanen Wohngebieten Deutschlands, das sogenannte " Kiezdeutsch ". Ich zeige, dass Kiezdeutsch entgegen einer verbreiteten öffentlichen Wahrnehmung kein gebrochenes Deutsch ist, sondern ein neuer, urbaner Dialekt des Deutschen, der sich im gemeinsamen Alltag Jugendlicher mit und ohne...
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This paper discusses a hitherto undescribed usage of the particle so as a dedicated focus marker in contemporary German. I discuss grammatical and pragmatic characteristics of this focus marker, supporting my account with natural linguistic data and with controlled experimental evidence showing that so has a significant influence on speakers' under...
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Dieser Band versammelt Originaldaten aus einer Erhebung, die im Rahmen des SFB-Teilprojekts B6 „Kiezdeutsch“ im Frühjahr 2010 in Berlin und İzmir, Türkei, durchgeführt wurde. Sämtliche hier dokumentierten Daten wurden schriftlich produziert; sie stammen von drei verschiedenen Sprechergruppen: Jugendliche aus einem multiethnischen Berliner Wohngebie...
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Etwa seit Mitte der 90er Jahre ist mit Kiezdeutsch eine Jugend-sprache in den Blick der Öffentlichkeit getreten, die sich in Wohn-gebieten mit hohem Migrantenanteil ausgebildet hat. Hier einige Beispiele aus diesem Sprachgebrauch: "Lassma Viktoriapark gehen, lan." "Ich höre Alpa Gun, weil der so aus Schöneberg kommt." "Ich hab meiner Mutter so Zung...
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This paper deals with Kiezdeutsch, a way of speaking that emerged among adolescents in multiethnic urban neighbourhoods of Germany. We show that, in Kiezdeutsch, we find evidence for both grammatical reduction and new developments in the domain of information structure, and hypothesise that this points to a systematic interaction between grammar an...
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What constitutes our number concept? What makes it possible for us to employ numbers the way we do; which mental faculties contribute to our grasp of numbers? What do we share with other species, and what is specific to humans? How does our language faculty come into the picture? This 2003 book addresses these questions and discusses the relationsh...
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This paper discusses a phenomenon that has recently been observed in areas with a large migrant population in European cities: the rise of new linguistic practices among adolescents in multiethnic contexts. The main grammatical characteristics that have been described for them are (1) phonological/phonetic and lexical influences from migrant langua...
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Humans possess a number concept that differs from its predecessors in animal cognition in two crucial respects: (1) it is based on a numerical sequence whose elements are not confined to quantitative contexts, but can indicate cardinal/quantitative as well as ordinal and even nominal properties of empirical objects (e.g. ‘five buses’: cardinal; ‘th...
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Der Vortrag behandelt den Einfluss sprachlicher Strukturen auf unsere Sicht der Welt. Am Beispiel des Englischen und Deutschen diskutiert die Referentin zusammengesetzte Wörter, wie das deutsche Wort "Schildkröte" oder das englische Wort "hedgehog" (Igel, wörtlich: "Heckeneber"), bei denen die lexikalische Bedeutung von unserem Weltwissen abweicht....
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The phrase ,,Ich mach dich Messer“ (lit.: I make you knife) is a ritualised threat used in a variety of contemporary German that is popularly known as ,Kanak Sprak' (kanak language), but is also referred to as ,Kiez-Sprache' (,hood language') by its speakers. Kiez-Sprache is a multi-ethnic variety that combines features of a youth language with tho...

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