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Our People’s Language: Variation and change in the Lánnang-uè of the Manila Lannangs
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
[Contact Language Library 62] 2025
► pp. 293–339

Chapter 6
Examining syntactic variation further

Wh-questions

Article outline
  • Introduction to the chapter
  • Wh-phrase position in Lánnang‑uè’s source languages
  • Wh-phrase position distribution pattern in Lánnang‑uè
  • Hypotheses
  • Approach
  • Participants
  • Production experiment design, stimuli, and data
  • Acceptability experiment design, stimuli, and data
  • Analytical procedure
  • Criteria for hypothesis testing
  • Measuring spread and stability
  • Results: Production study
  • Results: Acceptability study
  • Discussion: Spread and stability
  • Discussion: Structured variation/systematicity
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
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