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1 online resource (vii, 519 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Impact : studies in language and society ; volume 25 |
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Impact, studies in language and society ; 25.
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| Contents |
The lure of a distant horizon: Variation in indigenous minority languages / James N. Stanford, Dennis R. Preston -- Part I. Variation in phonetics and phonology. The phonetic and phonological effects of obsolescence in Northern Paiute / Molly Babel ; Diglossia and monosyllabization in Eastern Cham: a sociolinguistic study / Marc Brunelle ; Affricates in Lleidatà: a sociophonetic case study / Josefina Carrera-Sabaté ; Sociolinguistic stratification and new dialect formation in a Canadian aboriginal community: not so different after all? / Sandra Clarke ; The changing sound of the Māori language / Ray Harlow [and 4 others] ; Toward a study of language variation and change in Jonaz Chichimec / Yolanda Lastra ; A sociolinguistic sketch of vowel shifts in Kaqchikel: ATR-RTR parameters and redundancy markedness of syllabic nuclei in an Eastern Mayan language / Jean Léo Léonard and Cecilio Tuyuc Sucuc ; Phonological features of attrition: the shift from Catalan to Spanish in Alicante / Brauli Montoya-Abat ; Sociophonetic variation in urban Ewe / Kossi Noglo ; Phonological variation in a Peruvian Quechua speech community / Michael Pasquale ; A tale of two diphthongs in an indigenous minority language: Yami of Taiwan / D. Victoria Rau, Hui-Huan Ann Chang and Maa-Neu Dong ; Phonological markedness, regional identity, and sex in Mayan: the fricativization of intervocalic /l/ in K'iche' / Sergio Romero ; The pronunciation of /r/ in Frisian: a comparative study with Dutch and Town Frisian / Renée van Bezooijen -- Part II. Variation in syntax, morphology, and morphorphonology. Language shift among the Mansi / Bernadett Bíró and Katalin Sipőcz ; Fine-grained morphophonological variation in Scottish Gaelic: evidence from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland / Anna Bosch and James Scobbie ; Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature / Miriam Meyerhoff ; The challenges of less commonly studied languages: writing a sociogrammar of Faetar / Naomi Nagy ; Language variation and change in a North Australian indigenous community / Carmel O'Shannessy ; Ethnicity, bilingualism, and variable clitic marking in Bishnupriya Manipuri / Shobha Satyanath and Nazrin B. Laskar ; Clan as a sociolinguistic variable: three approaches to Sui clans / James N. Stanford ; Language loss in spatial semantics: Dene Sųłiné / Martin Thiering |
| Summary |
Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous minority languages |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 15, 2019) |
| Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Language -- Variation
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Minorities -- Language -- Variation
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Language and languages -- Variation.
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Linguistic change.
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Linguistic minorities.
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Sociolinguistics.
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sociolinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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Language and languages -- Variation
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Linguistic change
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Linguistic minorities
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Sociolinguistics
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Taalvariatie.
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Minderheidstalen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stanford, James N., editor.
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Preston, Dennis Richard, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789027289780 |
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9027289786 |
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1282104268 |
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9781282104266 |
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9786612104268 |
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6612104260 |
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