Barbara M. Horvath
List of John Benjamins publications for which Barbara M. Horvath plays a role.
2001 A Geolinguistics of short A in Australian English: a geolinguistic study English in Australia, Blair, David and Peter Collins (eds.), pp. 341–356 | Article
1998 From Accent to Marker in Cajun English: A Study of Dialect Formation in Progress English World-Wide 19:2, pp. 161–188 | Article
The English of bilingual Cajuns living in southern Louisiana has been described as an accented variety of English, the result of interference from French. In order to investigate this proposition, we present a variationist study of four features of Cajun English: 1) the interdental fricatives /th,… read more
1997 L-Vocalization in Australian English Variation, Change, and Phonological Theory, Hinskens, Frans, Roeland van Hout and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 101–123 | Article
1997 An empirical study of textual structure: horse race calls Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 103–120 | Article
1987 Varbrul analysis in applied linguistics: A case study Australian Applied Language Studies, McNamara, Tim F. (ed.), pp. 59–67 | Article
VARBRUL analysis is a well known technique used in sociolinguistics for the analysis of variable linguistic phenomena and it is suggested that it would also be useful as a tool in Applied Linguistics. A VARBRUL analysis was undertaken of the placement of students of non-English speaking background… read more