Bilingual speech and language ecology in Greek Thrace: Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish

Adamou, Evangelia

doi:10.1017/s0047404510000035

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“…Similar influence of Turkish TV was observed on Romani and Pomak speakers in Greece (Adamou, 2010;Georgalidou, Sypropulos, & Kaili, 2011) as well. In addition, there is constant contact with TRTurkish speakers (e.g.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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Spread of on-going changes in an immigrant language

Doğruöz¹,

Gries²

2012

RCL

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Turkish spoken in the Netherlands (NL-Turkish) sounds different in comparison to Turkish spoken in Turkey (TR-Turkish). Analyses of NL-Turkish spoken corpus reveal that NL-Turkish is changing through literally translated Dutch constructions. Combining the cognitive linguistics framework with methods of sociolinguistic analysis, this study investigates to what extent these attested changes are spread within the NL-Turkish speech community. Results of our experimental study show that NL-Turkish speakers recognize the changing constructions and tolerate them more than TR-Turkish speakers (control group). In addition, both NL-Turkish and TR-Turkish speakers exhibit a learning process for the changing constructions during the course of the experiment. However, we did not necessarily find a positive correlation between the frequency of changing constructions and their acceptance rate. We predict that sociolinguistic factors (e.g. group dynamics and continuous contact with TR-Turkish) influence the spread of on-going changes in NL-Turkish at the current stage of contact.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 61%

Spread of on-going changes in an immigrant language

Doğruöz¹,

Gries²

2012

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“…/maaˈla/ 'neighborhood'). As noted, however, these Romani speakers also use contemporary Istanbul Turkish extensively in their everyday speech, including a significant number of non-integrated Turkish verbs, as well as Modern Greek vocabulary (for more details see Adamou 2010). Interestingly, the speakers neither fully adapt these code-switch insertions to native phonology nor do they strictly follow the phonology of the original language.…”

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“…The speakers themselves distinguish between 'pure Romani' and Xoraxane 'Turkish' on the one hand, and their own Xoraxane Romane, or 'Turkish-Romani', on the other. These mixed varieties used by the communities discussed here are heavily influenced by contact with Turkish since the Ottoman times, as can be seen in both the lexicon and grammar (Adamou 2010). At this point it is not possible to talk of simple borrowings from Turkish, as this implies full integration into the Romani system of phonology and morphology.…”

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Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane

Adamou¹,

Arvaniti²

2014

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Romani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in several European countries as well as in the Americas, Asia and Australia, showing substantial dialectal variation. This illustration deals with Xoraxane Romane (Turkish Romani) spoken in Greek Thrace. Xoraxane Romane, which belongs to the Vlax branch of Romani, has been heavily influenced by contact with Turkish and also shows influences from Greek. As a result, Xoraxane Romane exhibits a mixed system that includes phonemes borrowed from both Turkish and Greek but without exhibiting complex phonological phenomena such as Turkish vowel harmony.

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“…The Roma of Xanthi also speak a non-native variety of Turkish that they use in traditional trade, most likely since Ottoman times -15 th to early 20 th century (Adamou, 2010 Experiment 1 is an on-line, bimodal picture-sentence matching task with auditory stimuli. This experiment is inspired by the visual world paradigm with eye-tracking used in Dahan & Tanenhouse (2004) in that it also uses visual and aurally presented stimuli.…”

Section: Romani-turkish As Spoken In Greek Thracementioning

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There are no language switching costs when codeswitching is frequent

Adamou

Shen

2017

International Journal of Bilingualism

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International audienceAims and Objectives/Purpose/Research QuestionsThere is ongoing discussion as to the cost of language switching, with some studies indicating high cost and others showing low or no cost. The main research question in this paper is whether there are language switching costs in communities in which codeswitching is frequent. Design/Methodology/Approach We conducted two on-line experiments, i.e. a picture choice with sentence auditory stimuli and a word recognition task in sentence context. We constructed 16 sentences with differing degrees of ecological validity (16 sentences x 4 versions = 64). The sentences included verbs with different language preferences in natural conversations (L1, L2, or both). Data and AnalysisThirty-seven simultaneous L1-Romani L2-Turkish bilinguals participated in Experiment 1 and 49 in Experiment 2. To analyze the results, linear mixed models (lmer) were constructed using the ‘lme4’ package in R.Findings/ConclusionsIn Experiment 1, participants responded significantly faster for the all-Turkish sentences, followed by the mixed Romani-Turkish sentences, and the two types of ecologically non-valid sentences. However, there were no processing costs for the mixed sentences when they contained Turkish verbs that are more frequently used in Turkish in the spontaneous conversations. In Experiment 2, reaction times were similar for Turkish verbs (with Turkish verb morphology) in a mixed Romani-Turkish or a unilingual Turkish sentence.OriginalityTaken together these findings indicate that language switching costs in comprehension depend on the frequency of codeswitching in the bilingual community, as well as on exposure to specific lexical items.Significance/ImplicationsThe Romani-Turkish data support a usage-based approach to bilingual processing and confirm the need to conduct experimental research that takes into account the communicational habits of the participants

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Bilingual speech and language ecology in Greek Thrace: Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish

Cited by 25 publications

References 26 publications

Spread of on-going changes in an immigrant language

Spread of on-going changes in an immigrant language

Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane

There are no language switching costs when codeswitching is frequent

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