Language Maintenance and Language Death: The decline of Texas Alsatian
Karen A. Roesch
[Culture and Language Use, 6] 2012. xv, 253 pp.
Karen A. Roesch
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karen A. Roesch plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language policy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
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2015 The History of Front Rounded Vowels in New Braunfels German Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 117–132 | Article
While earlier studies of New Braunfels German (NBG), a dialect of Texas German (TxG), e.g., Eikel (1954, 1966b) and Gilbert (1972), report the existence of front rounded vowels to various degrees, they are almost completely absent from present-day NBG (Boas 2009). This paper describes the history… read more