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Publication details [#61688]

Blainey, Darcy. 2016. Language contact and contextual nasalization in Louisiana French. Language Variation and Change 28 (1) : 63–81.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | language contact | language shift | language variety | vowel

Language as a subject

French, Louisiana

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Despite weighty language contact and shift, Louisiana French upholds a phonetic and phonemic (instead of a simplified) nasal vowel system (survey:1977 and 2010–2011). Quantitative analyses (n=2801) show contextual nasalization to operate nearly purely within the word, not the syllable field.