Heritage languages : extending variationist approaches / Naomi Nagy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagy, Naomi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heritage language speakers--Ontario--Toronto.

Heritage language speakers.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Multilingualism--Ontario--Toronto.

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Reporting a large-scale project, this is the first book to investigate heritage language variation and change across 3 generations, in 8 under-documented languages spoken in Toronto, with homeland comparisons. It introduces new methods for multilingual data collection, curation, quantitative analysis and interpretation of spontaneous speech"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Epigraph

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1 What Are Heritage Languages and Why Should We Study Them?

1.1 What Are Heritage Languages?

1.2 What Are the Goals of This Book?

1.3 Why Study Heritage Languages?

1.3.1 Documenting Linguistic Diversity

1.3.2 Better Understanding of Language Acquisition

1.3.3 Better Understanding of Variationist Sociolinguistics by Looking at Heritage Languages

1.4 How Do Heritage Languages and Their Speakers Behave?

1.5 What Is in This Book?

2 Experimental and Variationist Research on Heritage Languages

2.1 Heritage Language Studies: An Evolving Field

2.2 The Experimental and the Comparative Variationist Approaches

2.2.1 The Experimental Approach

2.2.2 The Comparative Variationist Approach

2.2.3 Differences in Methods

2.2.3.1 Participant Differences Based on Definitions of Heritage Speakers

2.2.3.2 Population Differences

2.2.3.3 Task Differences

2.2.3.4 Analytic Differences

2.3 Looking Forward: Can We Determine Which Differences in Methods Account for the Differences in Outcomes?

3 The Toronto Context

3.1 Demographics

3.2 Status

3.3 Institutional Support

3.4 Summary

4 HLVC Methods and Tools

4.1 Motivation for the HLVC Methodology

4.2 Corpus Construction

4.2.1 Cross-Generational Corpus

4.2.2 Cross-Linguistic Corpus

4.2.3 Multiple Methods of Data Collection

4.2.3.1 Sampling and Recruitment

4.2.3.2 Recording and Pseudonymization

4.2.3.3 Sociolinguistic Interview (IV)

4.2.3.4 Ethnic Orientation Questionnaire (EOQ)

4.2.3.5 Picture Description Task (FW)

4.2.3.6 Informed Consent Protocol

4.2.4 Data Processing

4.2.5 Metadata

4.2.6 Transcription

4.2.7 Coding for the Analysis of Individual Variables

4.2.8 Auditory and Acoustic Analysis

4.2.9 Modelling the Data

4.2.10 Archiving and Access

4.3 An Overview of the Methods of Analysis

4.3.1 How Do We Look for Evidence of Language Change?

4.3.2 Profiles of Sources of Language Change

4.3.3 Linguistic Variables

4.3.3.1 (PRODROP) or Variation between Overt and Null Subjects

4.3.3.2 (CASE)

4.3.3.3 Differential Object Marking (DOM)

4.3.3.4 (R)

4.3.3.5 Voice Onset Time (VOT) Voice Onset Time (VOT)

4.3.3.6 Apocope (APOCOPE) in Italian

4.3.3.7 Denasalization (N > L) in Cantonese

4.3.4 Analysis of Ethnic Orientation

4.3.5 Measuring "Fluency"

4.3.5.1 Speech Rate

4.3.5.2 Vocabulary Size

4.3.5.3 Language-Switching Measures

4.3.6 Correlation among Measures

4.3.7 Interim Summary of Methods

4.4 Cross-Variety Comparison Methods

5 Cross-Variety Comparisons

5.1 Overview

5.2 Voice Onset Time (VOT)

5.2.1 Cantonese

5.2.2 Italian

5.2.3 Korean

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2024).

ISBN:

9781009003025

100900302X

9781009003223

1009003224

9781108983624

1108983626