Jean Leó Léonard
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jean Leó Léonard plays a role.
Articles
2019 Complexité du continuum dialectal carélo-vepse The Intricacy of Languages, Feliu, Francesc and Olga Fullana (eds.), pp. 137–152 | Chapter
The Russian Republic of Karelia, located on the borders of Finland, is the territory of a complex dialectal continuum which goes from Finnish (Eastern) to Vepse, passing by Karelian, Livvi and Lude. These are languages or varieties that could be called collateral (Eloy 2004). These various fennic… read more
2009 7. A sociolinguistic sketch of vowel shifts in Kaqchikel: ATR-RTR parameters and redundancy markedness of syllabic nuclei in an Eastern Mayan language Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Stanford, James N. and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 173–210 | Article
Kaqchikel, a Quichean language of the Guatemalan Highlands, is well known for its Tense/Lax Vowel Contrast (TLVC) and the wide range of dialect variation of its vowel system, but the acoustic properties of its vocoids have never been scrutinized. A preliminary survey of the speech of ten informants… read more
2002 Microcosmic Perceptual Dialectology and the Consequences of Extended Linguistic Awareness: A Case Study of Noirmoutier Island (France) Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2, Long, Daniel and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 221–250 | Chapter