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Publication details [#40858]

Bullock, Barbara E. and Chip Gerfen. 2004. Phonological convergence in a contracting language variety. Bilingualism 7 (2) : 95–104.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | language variety | phonological variability

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This instrumental study of the phonological vowel system of Frenchville French, suggests that this language variety is undergoing a perceptually striking process of phonetic convergence with English, which is motivated by the auditory and acoustic similarity between a subset of vowels in the contact languages.