Variation in indigenous minority languages / edited by James N. Stanford, Dennis R. Preston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanford, James N.

Preston, Dennis Richard.

Series:

Impact, studies in language and society ; 25.

Impact : studies in language and society ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Language--Variation.

Indigenous peoples.

Minorities--Language--Variation.

Minorities.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Linguistic change.

Linguistic minorities.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

vii, 519 p. : ill., maps.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.

Contents:

The phonetic and phonological effects of obsolescence in Northern Paiute / Molly Babel

Diglossia and monosyllabization in Eastern Cham: a sociolinguistic study / Marc Brunelle

Affricates in Lleidatà: a sociophonetic case study / Josefina Carrera-Sabaté

Sociolinguistic stratification and new dialect formation in a Canadian aboriginal community: not so different after all? / Sandra Clarke

The changing sound of the Māori language / Ray Harlow ... [et al.]

Toward a study of language variation and change in Jonaz Chichimec / Yolanda Lastra

A sociolinguistic sketch of vowel shifts in Kaqchikel: ATR-RTR parameters and redundancy markedness of syllabic nuclei in an Eastern Mayan language / Jean Léo Léonard and Cecilio Tuyuc Sucuc

Phonological features of attrition: the shift from Catalan to Spanish in Alicante / Brauli Montoya-Abat

Sociophonetic variation in urban Ewe / Kossi Noglo

Phonological variation in a Peruvian Quechua speech community / Michael Pasquale

A tale of two diphthongs in an indigenous minority language: Yami of Taiwan / D. Victoria Rau, Hui-Huan Ann Chang and Maa-Neu Dong

Phonological markedness, regional identity, and sex in Mayan: the fricativization of intervocalic /l/ in K'iche' / Sergio Romero

The pronunciation of /r/ in Frisian: a comparative study with Dutch and Town Frisian / Renée van Bezooijen

Language shift among the Mansi / Bernadett Bíró and Katalin Sipőcz

Fine-grained morphophonological variation in Scottish Gaelic: evidence from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland / Anna Bosch and James Scobbie

Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature / Miriam Meyerhoff

The challenges of less commonly studied languages: writing a sociogrammar of Faetar / Naomi Nagy

Language variation and change in a North Australian indigenous community / Carmel O'Shannessy

Ethnicity, bilingualism, and variable clitic marking in Bishnupriya Manipuri / Shobha Satyanath and Nazrin B. Laskar

Clan as a sociolinguistic variable: three approaches to Sui clans / James N. Stanford

Language loss in spatial semantics: Dene Sųłiné / Martin Thiering.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612104268

9781282104266

1282104268

9789027289780

9027289786

OCLC:

429513478