Can prosodic cues accurately identify constituent boundaries with cross-dialectal homophones? With as a particle in the Minnesota English Dialect

Spartz, John M.

doi:10.17161/kwpl.1808.3926

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The Effects Of German On Wisconsin English1

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“…scissor). Verbal particles not (yet) widespread in American English are used here, such as with in the sense of ‘along,’ parallel to the separable prefixes of German, such as mit (see Spartz 2010). While come with is an established stereotype, some speakers use and accept go with to mean ‘to be with’ (e.g., “We’re calling from Sheboygan.” “Oh, are the kids with ?”), and so on.…”

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The Sociohistorical Context of Imposition in Substrate Effects

Wilkerson¹,

Livengood²,

Salmons

2014

Journal of English Linguistics

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A growing literature directly connects historical demographic patterns to the emergence of new dialects or languages. This article moves beyond the usual macro view of such data, relying on simple numbers of speakers and similar information, to focus on the input to new generations of speakers in a so-called substrate setting. The English now spoken in eastern Wisconsin shows a range of influences from German, and we work to reconstruct the kinds of input that the first large generation of English L1, mostly monolingual English-speaking children in the community,likely received at the level of the household and the individual. Evidence strongly suggests that most children in the community would have been widely exposed to heavily German-influenced English, in part due to a critical moment of shift from German to English as the home language in many households.

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Section: The Effects Of German On Wisconsin Englishmentioning

confidence: 99%