Non-standard dialects and linguistic data

Henry, Alison

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2004.07.006

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“…The explanatory power of variationist studies can be expanded with the inclusion of findings from grammatical acceptability judgments (Henry 1995(Henry , 2005 and other tasks that may render information about the social and linguistic constraints on the variation (Alfaraz 2010). For Cuban Spanish, further study with a sample of younger speakers and a range of socioeconomic status groups is necessary to determine whether estar is indeed a change in progress and whether it continues to advance in this variety.…”

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The Status of the Extension of estar in Cuban Spanish

Alfaraz

2012

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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This paper presents variationist sociolinguistics research on the copula estar with predicate adjectives in Cuban Spanish, a variety in which it appears to have gone largely uninvestigated. To examine its social and linguistic distribution, a real-time study with data from the 1960s and 1990s was coupled with an apparent-time study with data from the 1990s. Findings showed that generation and adjective type were significant factors constraining the variation. The comparison of different generations in real and apparent time suggested that the frequency of estar had increased significantly in the younger generation compared to older ones, and it had remained stable for the two age cohorts studied in real time. Results for following adjective showed that the extension of estar was favored in two of eight adjective classes. These findings suggest that Cuban Spanish has experienced a change over time in the frequency and distribution of innovative estar with predicate adjectives.

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The Status of the Extension of estar in Cuban Spanish

Alfaraz

2012

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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“…Ainsi, le format choisi permet de contrôler l'environnement syntaxique et phonétique des pronoms, le nombre de phrases avec chaque combinaison, etc. Enfin, Henry (2005) souligne l'importance des données basées sur l'intuition, en particulier grâce aux questionnaires de grammaticalité ou d'acceptabilité, lorsque l'on travaille sur la syntaxe des variétés non-standard.…”

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Tu lui les as donnés ?

Violin-Wigent

2013

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Tuaillon (1983) claims that variation in the order of third-person multiple object pronouns is a "clear regionalism" from the lower Rhone valley. To investigate this phenomenon in Briançon, a small town in southeastern France, 41 participants from this area filled out an acceptability judgment questionnaire, evaluating sentences with such pronouns in different orders. The results of statistical tests show that, even though participants prefer the standard French order, they also accept the reversed order (standard 'le lui' vs. reversed 'lui le'). The analysis also suggests a change in apparent time (which seems to coincide with economic and social changes in the region since WWII) as well as age grading.

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“…Among them, one finds (i) the interference from prescriptive notions of correctness, that is, the outcome of speakers’ awareness that some of the variants of their native linguistic repertoire are considered ‘incorrect’ by speakers of the standard variety, (ii) a greater degree of interspeaker and intraspeaker variation due to non-standardization leading to less clear-cut variants and judgments over variants, and (iii) the unclear dividing lines among the various ‘lects’ (e.g., acrolect, mesolects, basilect) that exist on the standard-dialect continuum (Cheshire and Stein, 1997; Milroy, 2001; Henry, 2005; Papadopoulou et al, 2014). Such features blur the boundaries of grammatical variants in a way that results in a high degree of grammatical hybridity attested in the form of utterances that may incorporate elements from various lects without code-switching being in place (Cornips, 2006; Tsiplakou et al, 2016; Leivada and Grohmann, 2017).…”

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“…Such features blur the boundaries of grammatical variants in a way that results in a high degree of grammatical hybridity attested in the form of utterances that may incorporate elements from various lects without code-switching being in place (Cornips, 2006; Tsiplakou et al, 2016; Leivada and Grohmann, 2017). 1 In this context, it has been argued that working from corpora of spontaneous speech might be more useful or desirable than using acceptability judgements when the language under investigation is a non-standard/-codified one — as is the case of the variety investigated in this study — because speakers may be influenced by prescriptive notions of correctness (Henry, 2005). …”

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Functionally Equivalent Variants in a Non-standard Variety and Their Implications for Universal Grammar: A Spontaneous Speech Corpus

2017

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Findings from the field of experimental linguistics have shown that a native speaker may judge a variant that is part of her grammar as unacceptable, but still use it productively in spontaneous speech. The process of eliciting acceptability judgments from speakers of non-standard languages is sometimes clouded by factors akin to prescriptive notions of grammatical correctness. It has been argued that standardization enhances the ability to make clear-cut judgments, while non-standardization may result to grammatical hybridity, often manifested in the form of functionally equivalent variants in the repertoire of a single speaker. Recognizing the importance of working with corpora of spontaneous speech, this work investigates patterns of variation in the spontaneous production of five neurotypical, adult speakers of a non-standard variety in terms of three variants, each targeting one level of linguistic analysis: syntax, morphology, and phonology. The results reveal the existence of functionally equivalent variants across speakers and levels of analysis. We first discuss these findings in relation to the notions of competing, mixed, and fused grammars, and then we flesh out the implications that different values of the same variant carry for parametric approaches to Universal Grammar. We observe that intraspeaker realizations of different values of the same variant within the same syntactic environment are incompatible with the ‘triggering-a-single-value’ approach of parametric models, but we argue that they are compatible with the concept of Universal Grammar itself. Since the analysis of these variants is ultimately a way of investigating the status of Universal Grammar primitives, we conclude that claims about the alleged unfalsifiability of (the contents of) Universal Grammar are unfounded.

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Non-standard dialects and linguistic data

Cited by 29 publications

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The Status of the Extension of estar in Cuban Spanish

The Status of the Extension of estar in Cuban Spanish

Tu lui les as donnés ?

Functionally Equivalent Variants in a Non-standard Variety and Their Implications for Universal Grammar: A Spontaneous Speech Corpus

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