Diglossia and change from below in Eastern Cham
Diglossia canonically refers to language situations with unequal attitudes towards a formal ‘H’ variety, connected to writing, and a colloquial ‘L’ variety, connected to everyday speech. This paper claims that variation that arises as a marker of diglossia can become dissociated from it and persist in the L variety, if it is sufficiently orthogonal to the writing system. With a sociolinguistic survey (n = 30), this paper examines five variables that were markers of quasi-diglossia in Eastern Cham in previous decades. Three of the variables continue to be stereotypes or shibboleths of diglossia, while the other two no longer exhibit any correlation with diglossia: the spirantization of r and the labial coarticulation of ŋ. The latter were changes from below that decoupled from diglossia, because they were sufficiently opaque to Cham script.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Eastern Cham
- 3.Survey
- 3.1Variable 1
- 3.2Variable 2
- 3.3Variable 3
- 3.4Variable 4
- 3.4.1Coding Variable 4
- 3.4.2The merger of r and j
- 3.5Variable 5
- 3.6Summary
- 4.Results
- 4.1Results: Variables 1–3
- 4.2Results: Variable 4
- 4.3Results: Variable 5
- 4.4Qualitative comparisons
- 5.Cham script
- 6.Vietnamese contact
- 7.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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References
https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.17003.bac
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