Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages
Editors
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.
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 25] 2009. vii, 519 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction
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The lure of a distant horizon: Variation in indigenous minority languagesJames N. Stanford and Dennis R. Preston | pp. 1–20
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Part I. Variation in phonetics and phonology
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1. The phonetic and phonological effects of obsolescence in Northern PaiuteMolly Babel | pp. 23–45
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2. Diglossia and monosyllabization in Eastern Cham: A sociolinguistic studyMarc Brunelle | pp. 47–75
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3. Affricates in Lleidatà: A sociophonetic case studyJosefina Carrera Sabaté | pp. 77–107
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4. Sociolinguistic stratification and new dialect formation in a Canadian aboriginal community: Not so different after all?Sandra Clarke | pp. 109–128
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5. The changing sound of the Māori languageRay Harlow, Peter Keegan, Jeanette King, Margaret Maclagan and Catherine I. Watson | pp. 129–152
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6. Toward a study of language variation and change in Jonaz ChichimecoYolanda Lastra | pp. 153–171
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7. A sociolinguistic sketch of vowel shifts in Kaqchikel: ATR-RTR parameters and redundancy markedness of syllabic nuclei in an Eastern Mayan languageJean Leó Léonard and Cecilio Tuyuc Sucuc | pp. 173–210
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8. Phonological features of attrition: The shift from Catalan to Spanish in AlicanteBrauli Montoya-Abat | pp. 211–227
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9. Sociophonetic variation in urban EweKossi Noglo | pp. 229–244
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10. Phonological variation in a Peruvian Quechua speech communityMichael Pasquale | pp. 245–258
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11. A tale of two diphthongs in an indigenous minority language: Yami of TaiwanD. Victoria Rau, Hui-Huan Ann Chang and Maa-Neu Dong | pp. 259–279
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12. Phonological markedness, regional identity, and sex in Mayan: The fricativization of intervocalic /l/Sergio Romero | pp. 281–297
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13. The pronunciation of /r/ in Frisian: A comparative study with Dutch and Town FrisianRenée van Bezooijen | pp. 299–318
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Part II. Variation in syntax, morphology, and morphophonology
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14. Language shift among the MansiBernadett Bíró and Katalin Sipőcz | pp. 321–346
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15. Fine-grained morphophonological variation in Scottish Gaelic: Evidence from the Linguistic Survey of ScotlandAnna Bosch and James Scobbie | pp. 347–368
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16. Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate featureMiriam Meyerhoff | pp. 369–396
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17. The challenges of less commonly studied languages: Writing a sociogrammar of FaetarNaomi Nagy | pp. 397–417
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18. Language variation and change in a North Australian indigenous communityCarmel O'Shannessy | pp. 419–439
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19. Ethnicity, bilingualism and variable clitic marking in Bishnupriya ManipuriShobha Satyanath and Nazrin B. Laskar | pp. 441–462
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20. Clan as a sociolinguistic variable: Three approaches to Sui clansJames N. Stanford | pp. 463–484
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21. Language loss in spatial semantics: Dene SųłinéMartin Thiering | pp. 485–516
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Index | pp. 517–519
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFB: Sociolinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General