Pub Date : 2022-02-21DOI: 10.1017/S0954394521000235
Aarnes Gudmestad, Katie Carmichael
Abstract In this study, we investigate first-person-singular subject expression in Louisiana French. This variety is undergoing language death and features extreme variation, with twelve first-person-singular subject forms identified within our corpus. We demonstrate that variationist methods are robust for examining such variation in obsolescing languages, and we provide a model for undertaking such analyses. Examining different aspects of our data, we fit two mixed-effects models, one that analyzes the four most frequent phonological variants of the atonic pronoun je ‘I’ and the other that focuses on the tonic pronoun mon ‘me.’ Several linguistic and social factors predict the use of these subject forms, supporting the claim that variability in declining languages is systematic, just as variation in healthy languages is. We argue that variationist methodologies have contributions to make to research on obsolescing languages and that variationist examinations of endangered and minority languages can provide methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of language variation and change more broadly.
摘要本研究调查了路易斯安那法语中第一人称单数主语的表达。这种变体正在经历语言的消亡，并具有极端的变化，在我们的语料库中发现了12种第一人称单数主语形式。我们证明了变分方法对于检查过时语言中的这种变化是健壮的，并且我们提供了进行这种分析的模型。研究数据的不同方面，我们采用了两种混合效应模型，一种分析主代词je ' I '的四种最常见的语音变体，另一种关注主代词mon ' me。一些语言和社会因素预测了这些主语形式的使用，支持了衰落语言的变化是系统的说法，就像健康语言的变化一样。我们认为，变异论的研究方法有助于研究过时的语言，而对濒危语言和少数民族语言的变异论研究可以为更广泛地研究语言变异和变化提供方法和理论上的贡献。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S095439452100020X
Kaylynn Gunter, Charlotte Vaughn, Tyler Kendall
Abstract Recent work has demonstrated an ongoing change across varieties of English in which /s/ retracts before consonants, particularly before /tɹ/ clusters (e.g., Lawrence, 2000; Shapiro, 1995; Stuart-Smith et al., 2019). Much of this work has focused on the social and linguistic distributions of /stɹ/ within single communities, without an examination of the broader sibilant space (e.g., /s/ and /ʃ/). Meanwhile, analyses across multiple corpora have shown that /s/ and /ʃ/ also show within-community variability, beyond /stɹ/ contexts (Stuart-Smith et al., 2019, 2020). Intersecting these approaches, this paper explores sibilant variation and change across /stɹ/, /s/, and /ʃ/ using a corpus of Washington D.C. African American Language (AAL). Results indicate that /stɹ/-retraction is a stable variant in this variety of AAL and /s/ and /ʃ/ show evidence of socially stratified variation and change. Overall, this paper demonstrates the need to examine the sibilant space more holistically when examining changes in /stɹ/.
最近的研究表明，在各种英语中，/s/在辅音前缩回，特别是在/t / r /集群之前，正在发生变化(例如，Lawrence, 2000;夏皮罗,1995;Stuart-Smith et al.， 2019)。这项工作的大部分都集中在单一社区中/st / r /的社会和语言分布上，而没有研究更广泛的发声空间(例如/s/和/ h /)。同时，对多个语料库的分析表明，/s/和/ h /也显示出社区内的变异性，超出了/st r /语境(Stuart-Smith et al.， 2019, 2020)。结合这些方法，本文使用华盛顿特区非裔美国人语言(AAL)语料库探讨了/st r /， /s/和/ h /的发音变化和变化。结果表明，/st / r /-回缩是该AAL变体的稳定变体，/s/和/s/显示出社会分层变异和变化的证据。总的来说，本文证明了在检查/st / r /的变化时需要更全面地检查音节空间。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s0954394522000047
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S095439452100017X
C. Naccarato, A. Panova, N. Stoynova
Abstract This paper deals with word-order variation in a situation of language contact. We present a corpus-based investigation of word order in the variety of Russian spoken in Daghestan, focusing specifically on noun phrases with a genitive modifier. In Daghestanian Russian, the nonstandard word order GEN+N (prepositive or left genitive) often occurs. At first glance, this phenomenon might be easily explained in terms of syntactic calquing from the speakers’ left-branching L1s. However, the order GEN+N does not occur with the same frequency in all types of genitive noun phrases but is affected by several lexicosemantic and formal features of both the head and the genitive modifier. Therefore, we are not dealing with simple pattern borrowing. Rather, L1 influence strengthens certain universal tendencies that are not motivated by contact. The comparison with monolinguals’ Russian, in which prepositive genitives sporadically occur too, supports this hypothesis.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S0954394521000211
Shoji Takano
Abstract This paper examines sociolinguistic properties of lifespan changes in language use from a non-Western perspective. Based on real-time studies in a change from above context (standardization) and panel surveys of prosody, the paper demonstrates that the stability of individuals’ language use over time varies along the following interwoven factors: (1) levels of grammar; (2) lexical properties; (3) progressive stages of a community in transition; and (4) locally constructed social identities. While segmental phonology and morphosyntax remain intact, lexical accents and vocabulary items tend to change in close linkage to sociolinguistic properties of individual words. Such changes are also motivated by the coexistence of an incoming standard, revitalized traditional dialect, and newly emerging “diaglossic” in-between variants in a community that is shifting to bidialectalism. Lifespan changes could also be community-specific, varying even within a single dialect region between two communities across which the stages of standardization and members’ locally constructed social identities differ.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S0954394521000168
Monica Nesbitt, James Stanford
Abstract The Low-Back-Merger Shift (LBMS) is a major North American vowel chain shift spreading across many disparate dialect regions. In this field-based study, we examine the speech of fifty-nine White Western Massachusetts speakers, aged 18–89. Using diagnostics in Becker (2019) and Boberg (2019b), we find the LBMS emerging at the expense of the Northern Cities Shift (Labov, Yaeger, & Steiner, 1972) and traditional New England features (Boberg, 2001; Kurath, 1939; Nagy & Roberts, 2004). In Becker's LBMS model (2019:9), the low-back merger (lot-thought) triggers front-vowel shifts. Our results suggest that local social meaning can sometimes override this chronology such that the front-vowel shifts occur before the low-back merger, even as the overall configuration comes to match Becker's predictions. Sociosymbolic meaning associated with the older New England system has led to a different temporal ordering of LBMS components, thus providing new theoretical and empirical insights into the mechanisms by which supralocal patterns are adopted.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1017/s0954394522000035
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1017/S0954394521000223
Yiming Liang, Pascal Amsili, Heather Burnett
Abstract In this paper, we return to the well-studied yet still puzzling phenomenon of complementizer omission in a large spoken corpus of Quebec French, with the help of modern computational methods for annotation and mixed effects logistic regression models. Supporting previous work, our study reveals that complementizer que omission is conditioned by social factors and grammatical factors; however, we also find that que omission is conditioned by cognitive factors such as information density. Our paper thus illustrates an important way in which older variationist corpora can continue to be valuable resources for studying fine-grained patterns of variation, particularly in their cognitive aspects.
{"title":"New ways of analyzing complementizer drop in Montréal French: Exploration of cognitive factors","authors":"Yiming Liang, Pascal Amsili, Heather Burnett","doi":"10.1017/S0954394521000223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394521000223","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, we return to the well-studied yet still puzzling phenomenon of complementizer omission in a large spoken corpus of Quebec French, with the help of modern computational methods for annotation and mixed effects logistic regression models. Supporting previous work, our study reveals that complementizer que omission is conditioned by social factors and grammatical factors; however, we also find that que omission is conditioned by cognitive factors such as information density. Our paper thus illustrates an important way in which older variationist corpora can continue to be valuable resources for studying fine-grained patterns of variation, particularly in their cognitive aspects.","PeriodicalId":46949,"journal":{"name":"Language Variation and Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41618052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1017/S0954394521000089
Zack Boyd, Josef Fruehwald, Lauren Hall-Lew
Abstract This study reports the results of a crosslinguistic matched guise test examining /s/ and pitch variation in judgments of sexual orientation and nonnormative masculinity among English, French, and German listeners. Listeners responded to /s/ and pitch manipulations in native and other language stimuli (English, French, German, and Estonian). All listener groups rate higher pitch guises as more gay- and effeminate-sounding than lower pitch guises. However, only English listeners hear [s+] guises as more gay- and effeminate-sounding than [s] or [s−] guises for all stimuli languages. French and German listeners do not hear [s+] guises as more gay- or effeminate-sounding in any stimulus language, despite this feature's presence in native speech production. English listener results show evidence of indexical transfer, when indexical knowledge is applied to the perception of unknown languages. French and German listener results show how the enregistered status of /s/ variation affects perception, despite crosslinguistic similarities in production.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s0954394521000156
Hiram L. Smith
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