Contact Situations Research Articles

On the history of radical-final palatalization in Romanian conjugation: the interaction of phonetic phenomena with non-phonetic

AbstractThis paper examines the reflexes in Romanian conjugation of Proto-Romance palatalization in radical-final position, i.e., the final consonant of lexical morphemes. It offers an explanation for instances of the absence of the expected reflex, which is relatively frequent in palatalization via the palatal glide as opposed to palatalization via front vowels. It considers both phonetic and non-phonetic factors, including, in its consideration of the present tense, the possibility of Slavic influence, arguing that contact within the Balkan Sprachbund provides an explanation, otherwise unavailable, of the distribution of radical-final palatalization in that paradigm. In view of the likelihood of such influence, it concludes with a general discussion of morphological interference in situations of language contact, a type of interference – as opposed to lexical, derivational, and syntactic interference – which some have questioned.

Contacts de langues sans limites ?

AbstractThe typology of language contacts is an important issue of contact linguistics. Different configurations of contact situations, such as of creoles, interlects between standard languages and dialects, or even the emergence of Romance languages have been tried to be explained by ecolinguistic parameters, such as the rapidity of evolution or geographical distance. Contemporary urban vernaculars, i.e. the contact variety spoken in French peripheral urban districts, and the postcolonial contact in Maghrebine Francophony with Arabic varieties can be joined to the list of specific contact cases. The notion of « limit » can be considered an essential category in contact typology, and it turns out that Juri Lotman’s semiotic approach can assign a specifically dynamizing function to the limits of language contacts. Under globalization conditions, even apparently very different outcomes of language contact can be explained by common underlying principles, even if we may accept the idea of a rupture in sociological terms.

Education-induced borrowing in Tanzania: the penetration of Swahili nouns into Maa (Maasai) and Hadzane (Hadzabe)

ABSTRACTLanguage contact in Tanzania is fostered by language planning policies which reinforce Swahili and English as official languages and Media of Instruction (Mol) in primary schools. Consequently, in rural areas, Swahili dominates ethnic community languages (ECLs) and impacts their lexicons. In most cases, additive borrowing is experienced because many new concepts penetrate into ECLs through Swahili. This article demonstrates how borrowed Swahili nouns penetrate into semantic fields related to the modem world, clothing and grooming, religion and belief, and agriculture and vegetation in Hadzabe and Maasai. Since Swahili penetrated into Maasai districts and Hadzabeland about a century ago, prevalent contact situations result in additive borrowing where Swahili nouns penetrate into the lexicons of Hadzane (Hadzabe) and Maa (Maasai). In addition, borrowed Swahili nouns are assigned to the gender and number systems in Hadzabe and Maasai. These are the main morphological changes which are addressed in this article.

ВОЗДЕЙСТВИЕ БИЛИНГВАЛЬНОЙ УЧЕБНОЙ СРЕДЫ НА ИДЕНТИЧНОСТЬ РУССКОЯЗЫЧНЫХ МОЛОДЫХ ЛЮДЕЙ В ЛАТВИИ

Relevance of the work dues to the fact that bilingual education in today’s multicultural world is an effective teaching model. It allows, along with the development of educational content to solve problems, associated with the formation of abilities of intercultural communication. The purpose of the research is to analyze the situation in Latvia, where bilingual approach in national minorities’ schools has been extensively implemented in recent decades. In all countries, except for Russia, the Russian language exists within another language (languages) environment. In a situation of contact between two cultural and language systems, one of which is dominating socially, Russian-speaking bilingual acts as a representative of the non-dominant system. Under the conditions of native language’s ethnic area remoteness, while in the non-dominant part of the language community, the younger generation of Russian bilinguals partly lose language norms, competence, and a sense of cultural and language identity.

The limits of named language varieties and the role of social salience in dialectal contact: The case of Spanish in the United States

AbstractStudying dialectal contact offers linguists an opportunity to critically examine some of our most basic assumptions about language. In particular, careful consideration of geographically constrained patterns of linguistic variation highlights the limitations of named language varieties as tools for linguistic inquiry. Ultimately, the locus of contact is not to be found in the interaction of such abstractions, but rather in the individual minds of those who live in contact communities. The present paper highlights these issues through a discussion of Spanish dialectal contact in the U.S., with a special emphasis on the variable social salience of regionally differentiated features. Work reviewed here is consistent with previous research that finds the relative salience of features to be a key determinant of their trajectory in situations of contact. Change in the use of high salience features is likely to be the result of direct accommodation between speakers, while change in low salience features is likely to arise by other, indirect mechanisms. The role of salience in shaping the outcomes of contact reinforces its inherently social nature, reminding us that what we hope to understand are not the results of dialects in contact, but rather, those of people in contact.

ОЦЕНКИ И ЦЕННОСТИ В ЗЕРКАЛЕ СЛОВАРЕЙ РУССКОГО ЯЗЫКА

The article deals with the evaluative characteristics of lexis which denotes concepts which are culturally significant for society, and have been reflected in various ways in Russian dictionaries. Experi-ence of research in this area (Yu.D. Apresyan, N.D. Arutyunova, E. Bartminsky, A. Wierzbicka, E.M. Wolf, T.V. Larina, N.V. Ufimtseva, etc.) demonstrates that one effective direction is a communication-activity ap-proach which allows researchers to explore evaluation characteristics from the perspectives of both recipient and producer of the speech. This article represents the fruit of research into the receptive aspect of the study of values; its aim is to show how evaluation markers are dealt with in dictionaries, and describe the representation of evaluations and values in lexicographical sources. During the research, various methods and operational procedures were used, including the analysis of definitions, component analysis, context transformation, equivalent replacement, modelling, linguistic experiment, etc. While studying the ways of denoting estimations and values in Russian dictionaries, we found explicit and implicit means of express-ing the evaluative characteristics of lexical units, which affect the reception of estimates by users of dic-tionaries. Special attention is paid to research into the problems of cultures in contact situations. The structure of views about the same event cannot correspond across different cultural communities, which confirms the thesis on the existence of fundamental culture codes which manage linguistic and perceptual codes (Fou-cault). It was found that evaluative components are inconsistently reproduced, in explanatory dictionaries, and dictionary definitions frequently fail to clarify the question of evaluation of the content in question, which makes it difficult for users to process the evaluative significance of dictionary entries. The dictionary definition, therefore, often fails to reflect the actual use of the word in speech. The results obtained entail a reflec-tion on the optimisation of dictionary definitions, and argue for the creation of a special dictionary of Russian evaluation.

Guarani Morphology in Paraguayan Spanish: Insights from Code-Mixing Typology

In this paper we examine the use of Guarani affixes and clitics in colloquial Paraguayan Spanish. We depart from the traditional view of these as “borrowings, and instead explore the idea that these phenomena can be integrated within Muysken’s (2000, 2013, 2014) typology of code-mixing. We claim that most of these uses may stem from a strategy of backflagging that bilingual speakers employ to mark their use of a (historical, colonial) L2 (Spanish) with elements from the original community L1 (Guarani). In so doing, however, we identify some problematic areas in applying Muysken’s model to these data. We conclude by showing how this perspective shift in the analysis of Guarani-Spanish contact phenomena can both increase our understanding of this particular contact situation, as well as of code-mixing typology.

Metaculture: The Model of Future Cross-Cultural Foreign Language Education?

Regarding the priorities of present day intercultural communication (the situation of multicultural contact, the dialogue of civilizations, interpersonal base of communication, the “global citizen” phenomenon, etc.), the article outlines the rationale of the necessity to consider metaculture as a conceptual framework (and its sequence) of intercultural dialogue and thus predetermined intercultural foreign-language education. Intercultural dialogue can be generally defined as an inductive reciprocal meaning-making process functioning to defeat expectancies on the borderline of cultural habitats, the catalyst being the personal awareness of the communicant. Metaculture, being the result and the state of this dialogue, is the state of evolving awareness aiming to bridge the gaps of cultural borders, conditioned by the cases of national identity. The article presents the comparative analysis of metaculture (S.E. Yachin), interculture (V.A. Belyaev), transculture (M.N. Epstein), the third culture (Fred L. Carsnir) theories to figure out their complementary character. Culture within an intercultural contact is thus interpreted as based on self- and co-constructing evolution of the communicants, which allows it to reach the meta-level of self-awareness of a cultural identity, postulating itself as an object of reflection. Metaculture determines the goal-setting and helps select the contents of intercultural foreign-language edu-cation. The prospects of further investigation of metaculture within intercultural foreign-language education, however, appear challenging.

The influence of non-linguistic factors on the usage of the pre-prefix in Luguru

This article discusses the impact of linguistic and non-linguistic factors on the use of the pre-prefix in an under-described Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. The pre-prefix, also referred to as the augment, is a morpheme related to givenness in many Bantu languages. We will explore its use in Luguru, which is spoken in the Morogoro region in Tanzania. Certain groups of Luguru speakers use the pre-prefix much more than others, and its use seems to vary according to social settings. We present a sociolinguistic analysis of the contexts where the pre-prefix can appear, including attitudes and social factors, taking into account the situation of intense language contact between Luguru and the dominating language Swahili, where the pre-prefix is non-existent. Not much has been published on Luguru overall, and this is the first study of the pre-prefix. Moreover, it is, to our knowledge, the first work taking social factors into account in analysing the pre-prefix in Bantu in general.

Comparing numerically exact and modelled static friction

Currently there exists no mechanically consistent “numerically exact” implementation of static and dynamic Coulomb friction for general soft particle simulations with arbitrary contact situations in two or three dimension, but only along one dimension. We outline a differential-algebraic equation approach for a “numerically exact” computation of friction in two dimensions and compare its application to the Cundall-Strack model in some test cases.

S’approprier le français: pour une langue conviviale—actes du colloque de Bruxelles (2013) éd. par Françoise Hekkers, et al

flow of the story with its circular eddies oft reflects metaphorically and stylistically Duras’s writings. Those less familiar with the riveting story of her love relationships (and those of her lovers) will enjoy learning unknown details about various lovers, her stillborn child, the Fernandez family, the Delvals, and different ways the war plays out in her life and thus her œuvre. Vircondelet captures how the war burns into her soul and gushes out of her pen, as she processes so many losses, fears, and the indelibly painful memories caused by her original family. “Écrire, le seul moyen pour élucider la nuit”(205) utters the protagonist, who writes mostly at night.While this novel may not succeed brilliantly as a novel, Duras scholars will justifiably appreciate it. Augusta University and University of Wisconsin, Madison E. Nicole Meyer Linguistics edited by Bryan Donaldson Hekkers, Françoise, Monique Hepner, et Nathalie Marchal, éd. S’approprier le français: pour une langue conviviale—actes du colloque de Bruxelles (2013).Louvainla -Neuve: De Boeck, 2015. ISBN 978-2-8011-1751-4. Pp. 199. 35 a. Organized by the linguistic agencies in Belgium,France,Québec,and Francophone Switzerland that make up OPALE, (Organismes francophones de politique et d’aménagement linguistiques), the Colloque de Bruxelles of 2013 addressed the question of how to facilitate the appropriation of the French language by Francophones and nonFrancophones , considering specifically representations, educational practices, and language reform. A main issue, according to the researchers, is that the complexity of the linguistic and orthographic systems of modern French are compounded by the representation and perception of French as a difficult language. The presentations compiled in this volume consider the accessibility and learnability of the language, with a focus on social and linguistic factors, in a number of specific populations. In Francophone contexts, mastery of the language is associated with social legitimacy, and lack of mastery can be a social handicap that limits access to education, culture, and perhaps most importantly, the job market. The contributors thus explore social and educational factors as well as attitudes and representations that may hinder the learning and mastery of French as a first or second language. In Benin, for example, French is the official language, but weaknesses in the educational system limit access and opportunities for adequate learning (Alokpon); in Belgium, immigrants are given language instruction to help their assimilation to the host culture, but they may encounter inequality and discrimination that limit their motivation and development (Bernard). One poignant success story involves the creation of a radio show with immigrant women in Belgium: In the course of the project, the women were able 222 FRENCH REVIEW 90.3 Reviews 223 to develop their language skills through interactive radio formats like debates and interviews with people in the street, expanding not only their linguistic repertoire but also their cultural integration into the host community (Abgrall). In educational settings, the perception of the French language as an unattainable ideal frustrates the efforts of students and instructors. Several contributions suggest alternate educational methods, such as contextualized instruction in language contact situations such as the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa (Miled), increased focus on vocabulary for young learners (Anctil), and even an overhaul of language education (including orthographic reform) in Francophone contexts (Chartrand). Focus is also drawn to the difficulties inherent in the linguistic system of French, and language reform is a suggestion that arises in several of the contributions (Chartrand; Van Raemdonck). In an early presentation , Bouillon offers advice for those who would undertake spelling reform, based on his experience working on German orthographic reform. Hambye’s conclusion, meticulously drawing from the previous works, offers an excellent overview of the themes that link the various contributions, and his thoughts on the politicization of linguistic policy leave the reader with food for thought. The volume concludes with a convenient list and description of the organizing bodies from each country. On the whole, this collection offers insight into a number of contemporary Francophone situations and internal and external factors relevant to the appropriation of the language. University of Louisiana, Lafayette Tamara Lindner Marsac, Fabrice. Histoire d’S: ou le participe passé au Rasoir d’Ockham. Paris: L’Harmattan...

Hybrid Tolerance Representation of Systems in Motion

Dimensional management deals with the fact that the real geometry of every manufactured part deviates from its ideal shape. To evaluate the effects of these deviations tolerance analysis, which are often based on vectorial models, are carried out. Nevertheless the use of vectorial models has one major disadvantage – they cannot adequately represent form deviations. As a consequence new concepts of representations based on the GPS’ Skin Model have been established. Since the use of Skin Model Shapes (SMS) is time-consuming and does not always offer advantages over vectorial models, the Hybrid Tolerance Representation (HTR) which combines the advantages of vectorial and discretely represented tolerances is introduced in this paper. The HTR is based on a classification of the contact situation of the cinematic chain into lower and higher kinematic pairs. Based in this classification all higher kinematic pairs are going to be represented by SMS whereas lower pairs, are represented by vectors. Besides the simulation of the contact situation of all higher kinematic pairs the coupling of vectorial and discrete geometry representations is a challenge. The practical implementation of the presented method is shown on an X-ray shutter.

Investigação sorológica das lentiviroses de pequenos ruminantes nas microrregiões homogêneas do Alto Médio Canindé, Picos e Floriano, Piauí, Brasil

RESUMO: Lentivírus de pequenos ruminantes (LV) é o termo genérico utilizado para designar os vírus da artrite encefalite caprina e Maedi-Visna, os quais pertencem à família Retroviridae, subfamília Orthoretrovirinae, gênero Lentivirus. Tais vírus infectam caprinos e ovinos, causando enfermidades de curso lento com lesões inflamatórias, crônicas e degenerativas que podem atingir vários órgãos, provocando caquexia e morte. Os animais infectados eliminam o vírus sobretudo por meio de secreções e excreções e transmitem-no especialmente em situações de estreito contato. Não há tratamento até o momento. O controle é baseado na criação segregada, no manejo e no sacrifício dos positivos. Esse agente infeccioso já foi relatado em várias partes do mundo, sendo responsável por perdas econômicas significativas. Por o agente ter sido verificado em vários estados do Brasil e por não existirem dados soroepidemiológicos nas mesorregiões sudeste e sudoeste piauiense, esta pesquisa teve por objetivo realizar inquérito sorológico para investigar a ocorrência de anticorpos para o LV em ovinos e caprinos nas microrregiões do Alto Médio Canindé, Picos e Floriano, no Piauí. Para tanto, foram coletadas 1.280 e 1.360 amostras de soro caprino e ovino, respectivamente, oriundos de 20 municípios, distribuídos nas três microrregiões, sendo o número de amostras proporcional ao rebanho efetivo de cada município. As amostras de soro foram analisadas utilizando o teste de imunodifusão em gel de agarose (IDGA). Nenhum dos soros pesquisados reagiu positivamente, constatando-se soroprevalência nula. Ressalta-se a importância da implantação de um rigoroso programa de controle para que se possa evitar a introdução e/ou a disseminação desse agente infeccioso nessas microrregiões.

Application of chamfered narrow face mold technology to reduce longitudinal surface crack defects of hyperperitectic steel generated during flexible thin slab casting process

Mold wear can occur at the interface between slab and mold when slab moves downward through the mold during casting. Longitudinal surface cracks in continuous casting process of slab are closely related with inadequate amount of narrow face taper. Optimizing inner structure and adjusting taper of narrow face mold were helpful in improving contact situation between mold and solidified shell to achieve uniform solidifying shell and to avoid forming longitudinal surface cracks. A chamfered narrow face mold for flexible thin slab casting process was developed and implemented successfully in industrial production process. The relationship between wear profiles of narrow face mold and occurrence of longitudinal surface cracks has been researched. The results show that a chamfered narrow face mold can effectively compensate the narrow side shell shrinkage along slab width direction to reduce the occurrence of longitudinal surface cracks.

Coating titanium on carbon steel by in-situ electrochemical reduction of solid TiO2 layer

Ti coating on A3 steel was successfully prepared by direct electrochemical reduction of high-velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) thermally sprayed and room-temperature dip-coating titanium dioxide coating on A3 steel in molten CaCl2 at 850 °C. The interfacial microstructure and mutual diffusion between coating and steel substrate were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy. The results show that the precursory TiO2 coating prepared by HVOF has closer contact and better adhesion with the A3 steel substrate. After electrolysis, all of the electro-generated Ti coatings show intact contact with the substrates, regardless of the original contact situation between TiO2 layer and the steel substrate in the precursors. The inter-diffusion between the iron substrate and the reduced titanium takes place at the interface. The results demonstrate the possibility of the surface electrochemical metallurgy (SECM) is a promising surface engineering and additive manufacturing method.

Histoire d’S: ou le participe passé au Rasoir d’Ockham by Fabrice Marsac

Reviews 223 to develop their language skills through interactive radio formats like debates and interviews with people in the street, expanding not only their linguistic repertoire but also their cultural integration into the host community (Abgrall). In educational settings, the perception of the French language as an unattainable ideal frustrates the efforts of students and instructors. Several contributions suggest alternate educational methods, such as contextualized instruction in language contact situations such as the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa (Miled), increased focus on vocabulary for young learners (Anctil), and even an overhaul of language education (including orthographic reform) in Francophone contexts (Chartrand). Focus is also drawn to the difficulties inherent in the linguistic system of French, and language reform is a suggestion that arises in several of the contributions (Chartrand; Van Raemdonck). In an early presentation , Bouillon offers advice for those who would undertake spelling reform, based on his experience working on German orthographic reform. Hambye’s conclusion, meticulously drawing from the previous works, offers an excellent overview of the themes that link the various contributions, and his thoughts on the politicization of linguistic policy leave the reader with food for thought. The volume concludes with a convenient list and description of the organizing bodies from each country. On the whole, this collection offers insight into a number of contemporary Francophone situations and internal and external factors relevant to the appropriation of the language. University of Louisiana, Lafayette Tamara Lindner Marsac, Fabrice. Histoire d’S: ou le participe passé au Rasoir d’Ockham. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2016. ISBN 978-2-343-08287-5. Pp. 210. 22 a. The ins and outs of past participle agreement are discussed in this volume, whose overarching goal is to untangle and simplify the current minefield of nearly 50 rules, exceptions, and cas particuliers. Marsac qualifies this current state of affairs as abracadabrantesque , a term that most speakers (and probably all instructors) of French will agree with. Adopting the principle of Occam’s Razor, the author aims to replace these sometimes incoherent accretions resulting from centuries of prescriptive endeavors with a unified, streamlined, and linguistically valid rule. Although the early sections sometimes verge on the alarmist—including a generous list of errors from educated sources, taken as evidence of a general relâchement grammatical—many of Marsac’s later criticisms ring true.Take for example the familiar règle de position: a past participle with avoir as its auxiliary agrees with the direct object when the object precedes the past participle, but not when it follows (les pommes que j’ai mangées but j’ai mangé les pommes). As it turns out, no other agreement relations in French (e.g., subject-verb, noun-adjective) evince this (artificial) sensitivity to position. Marsac emphasizes the inconsistency in proscribing agreement with en (des pommes, j’en ai mangé), even though en pronominalizes a direct object and precedes a past participle auxilié by avoir. Likewise, why does faire causatif block agreement (la maison qu’il a fait faire)? Pronominal verbs are similarly thorny, requiring agreement with direct objects (elles se sont vues) but not indirect objects (elles se sont parlé), despite the strong tendency elsewhere for agreement in the context of être. A further criticism of the règle de position is that, although ostensibly formulated for auxiliary avoir, it is extended to auxiliary être in cases like ils se sont acheté de coquettes maisons (no agreement; direct object follows the past participle) versus ils se les sont données eux-mêmes, la liberté et la démocratie (agreement required; direct object pronoun precedes the past participle). Marsac’s proposal would treat past participle agreement as simple verbal agreement and essentially do away with the règle de position, recommending for example cette visite que j’avais projeté; past participles of pronominal verbs would agree with the subject (rather than the direct object) across the board, thus le premier ministre se les est attribué (masculine singular subject) or les deux premiers ne se sont pas plus (masculine plural subject). Although Marsac’s proposal is elegant in relying only on preexisting principles such as subject-verb agreement, it disregards how past participle agreement arose naturally in French prior to...

日本の韓国人居住者の接触場面に向かう言語管理 ― 言語バイオグラフィーからの記述の試み ―

This studies aim is to examine the language management towards contact situations of Korean residents in Japan from a diachronic point of view. In this paper, I will first classify the interview data of a Korean woman who lives in Japan into 3 levels (the level of fact, level of subject, level of text; Muraoka 2010), and then describe her language biography. Then, from her language biography, I will show how I interpret the experiences that left marks on her life, and how her policy of Japanese language use has been changed. Moreover, beside of her turning point, I will clarify her general policy of communication and language use. Finally, by recapitulating the points represented before, I epitomize her language management towards contact situations in Japan.

Dialect Contact and Linguistic Accommodation

This study investigates standard Seoul Korean speakers’ linguistic accommodation in dialect contact situations. In particular, the study examines how ‘gender’, ‘age’, and ‘length of residency in Gyeongsang’ can affect participants’ accommodation in dialect contact. The study also examines speakers’ motivations for accommodation in dialect contact. In addition, this study investigates correlations of participants’ accommodative acts and attitudes towards both the Gyeongsang dialect and standard Seoul Korean as well as attitudes towards Gyeonsang Province and Seoul. To find this correlation, the present study collected two kinds of data : phonetic data and identity assessment data. Participants carried out three tasks: TEST1, designed for investigating phonological variation, TEST2, designed for exploring lexical pitch accents, and an identity assessment questionnaire.

Object agreement marking and information structure along the Quechua-Spanish contact continuum

Direct object clitics in Spanish are morphological markers at the interfaces of syntax, phonology, morphology, and information structure (Zwicky, 1985; Ordóñez & Repetti, 2006; Belloro, 2007; Spencer & Luís, 2012). They play an important part in argument morphology in Spanish and are subject to variability in bilingual acquisition (McCarthy, 2008). In this paper we explore the morphology-syntax-information structure mapping of direct object clitics in clitic structures in a range of speakers that includes Quechua-dominant bilinguals and Spanish monolingual individuals along a continuum of language contact situations. Our findings indicate clear dissociation between syntactic properties and marking of morphological features. They also indicate a progression from default gender marking in clitics to a scalar system of clitic forms based on animacy and informational value along the continuum of speakers. Finally, while clitics in liberal clitic doubling varieties receive a focus interpretation (Sánchez, 2010; Sánchez & Zdrojewski, 2013), our data indicate that in some Spanish contact varieties they denote the primary object and secondary topic (Sánchez, 2003; Dalrymple & Nikolaeva, 2011; Mayer, 2008, 2013, forthcoming). The findings of this exploratory study support the view that while clitics exhibit common syntactic properties across a continuum of speakers, they may vary in morphological marking and informational value.

Numerical analysis of the effect of track parameters on the wear of turnout rails in high-speed railways

In this study, a numerical procedure is developed to predict the wear of turnout rails, and the effect of track parameters is investigated. The procedure includes simulation of the dynamic interaction between the train and the turnout, the rolling contact analysis, and the wear model. The dynamic interaction is simulated with the validated commercial software Simpack that uses a space-dependent model of a railway turnout. To reproduce the actual operating conditions of a railway turnout, stochastic variations in the input parameters are considered in the simulation of the dynamic interaction. The rolling contact is analyzed with the semi-Hertzian method and improved FASTSIM algorithm, which enable the contact model to deal with situations of multipoint contact and nonelliptic contact. Based on the Archard’s wear law, the wear model requires the calculation of normal/tangential stresses and a relative slide on the contact patches. The numerical procedure is performed for the selected sections of the vehicle, which runs through the railway turnout in the diverging route. By using the numerical procedure, the effect of track parameters (track gage, rail inclination, and friction coefficient) on the wear of turnout rails is analyzed. The results show that the wear of the front wheelset is more serious than the wear of the rear wheelset for a single vehicle. The degree of wear of switch rails is more severe than that of the stock rails and the difference is more obvious for the front wheelset of the switch rails. The wear of switch rails is mainly concentrated on the rail gage corner, while the wear of stock rails is mainly concentrated on the rail crown. For the analysed CN60-1100-1:18 turnout and the high-speed vehicle CRH2 in China, the rail wear rate could be slowed down by increasing the track gage and decreasing the rail inclination. Alternatively, the rail wear rate could be slowed by decreasing the friction coefficient; however, the variation of wear depth is quite small for friction coefficients that are larger than 0.3.