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Variation in indigenous minority languages /

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. W...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stanford, James N. (Editor ), Preston, Dennis Richard (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA, USA : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2009]
Colección:Impact, studies in language and society ; 25.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.