Variation and change in contact settings

Léglise, Isabelle; Chamoreau, Claudine

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“…Although the variationist approach need hardly be modified to examine change in multilingual communities, and indeed would seem to provide the most systematic way of examining the relationship between contact and change, such studies of language contact situations are comparatively rare . As Léglise and Chamoreau write in the introduction to a book that attempts to address this very issue: “Linguistic variation is an opaque area, a blind spot, for most contact‐induced language change studies” (Léglise and Chamoreau :3).…”

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“…Gal ; Dorian ; Mougeon and Beniak ; Dubois and Horvath , King ), and carried out quantitative studies of contact phenomena such as borrowing (Poplack, Sankoff and Miller ) and code‐switching (Poplack ; Poplack and Meechan ). More recently, the papers in Léglise and Chamoreau () address “the interplay of the notions of ‘variation,’ ‘change,’ and ‘contact’” (2). Nonetheless, multilingual communities have been comparatively underrepresented by variationists, and many of the classic studies in the field (Labov ; Cedergren ; Trudgill ; Milroy ; Sankoff and Sankoff ) focused on monolingual speakers, even in multilingual communities.…”

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Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Contact

Ravindranath

2015

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In a world where most individuals speak more than one language and most languages are in contact with other languages, the study of language in its social context must take into account language contact. Two central questions in the study of language contact and change are (1) whether social or linguistic factors are primary in predicting the outcomes of contact; and (2) whether change in the context of contact is a foregone conclusion. Quantitative studies of sociolinguistic variation provide an effective means of observing change in progress, but the majority of such studies have focused on monolingual speakers/communities. This article gives a brief summary of the study of language contact in variationist sociolinguistics before turning to a discussion of the types of data and approaches best suited to answering the question of how and when contact causes change in multilingual communities. Recognizing that the description of a multilingual community involves more social parameters and more inter-individual variation than a monolingual one, this article focuses on a core list of social factors to consider in studies of variation and change in multilingual communities, organized so that possible intersections may also be considered.

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2015

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“…One approach to the still-open question in sociolinguistics regarding the precise roll of synchronic variation in diachronic language development (Léglise and Chamoreau 2013) is to study new speakers of endangered languages in terms of their acquisition of proficiency, lexical and structural variants in their speech production, and the social networks within which endangered-language practices are situated. Such contexts provide an ideal venue to investigate the development of interlanguage (Selinker 1972) and its potential role in wider language change.…”

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Rapid Automatized Picture Naming as a Proficiency Assessment for Endangered Language Contexts: Results from Wilamowice

Borges

2019

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This paper discusses the use of rapid automatized picture naming (RAN) in the assessment of proficiency among new speakers of endangered languages. Despite the fact that measuring proficiency among new speakers is crucial vis-à-vis the development of didactic materials and understanding language change, there are often a number of practical issues that reduce the practicality of traditional language evaluation methods. This paper investigates the potential of RAN assessments to provide a suitable indication of language proficiency by means of accuracy (ability to name pictures), speed (how quickly a verbal response is produced), and cognitive control (how well the speaker mediates cognitive load while performing the task). Results from RAN assessments administered among new speakers of Wymysorys, in concert with other data collection procedures, indicate that this type of task provides accurate insight into speakers’ proficiency. Latencies in the bilingual picture naming allow accurate insight into speakers’ proficiency as a function of the relative degrees of language entrenchment. However, increasing cognitive load during the assessment via speed of cue stimulus and frequently switching trial language showed no effect relative to the proficiency rank order established by naming accuracy and speed.

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“…The variationist approach seems very suitable to study linguistic variation in language contact situations, although such studies are comparatively rare (Léglise & Chamoreau 2013). For the empirical study of the variation in Frisian, and in the verbal complex in particular, variationist sociolinguistics offers a good framework.…”

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Bilingualism and Contact-Induced Language Change: exploring variation in the Frisian verbal complex

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Bilingualism and Contact-Induced Language ChangeExploring variation in the Frisian verbal complex Ph.D. thesis Liefke Reitsma ContentsAnd here it is. Here it finally is: my doctoral thesis. To me, this book represents not only a report of an academic study, a quest for logic in the variation encountered in the different languages in my life. It also represents my dissertation journey, as an integral part of my development from a curious girl growing up bilingually to a multilingual grown-up that cannot find the time to satisfy all of her curiosity, let alone write a doctoral thesis. 26 27 Chapter 2 Linguistic Variation and Language Change 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Language variation and change 2.3 Language contact and change 2.4 Bilingualism, language acquisition and change 2.5 Conclusion The stability gradient of languageBoth Thomason and Kaufman (1988) and Van Coetsem (1988 agree that some elements may be transferred more easily than others. Thomason and Kaufman use a 'scale of borrowability' to explain the differences in outcomes: less stable domains (like the lexicon) are borrowed more easily, whereas more stable domains (grammar) are borrowed less. Van Coetsem proposes a 'stability gradient' to account for the differences in linguistic outcome between the process of borrowing and that of imposition (Van Coetsem 1988). In his terms, language components or subcomponents differ in their degree of stability, that is, certain parts of language are more stable or more cohesive than others. Roughly, phonology and grammar are considered to be more stable domains, whereas vocabulary is considered to be less stable (ib. 1988). In both types of transfer the agent tends to preserve the more stable domains of his or her linguistically dominant language. Thus, borrowing concerns mainly less stable elements, like for example vocabulary, whereas more stable domains, like for example articulatory habits or syntax, are affected by imposition (Van Coetsem 1988.Winford (2005, 2010) notes that differences in stability may appear within language components as well (Winford 2005(Winford , 2010). Within vocabulary, this holds for example for content words (unstable) vs. function words (stable) and the 65 Chapter 4 The Frisian Verbal Complex in its Context 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The socio-political context of Frisian 4.3 Favorable conditions for structural language change 4.4 Bilingual acquisition of Frisian and Dutch 4.5 Conclusion 2-1 (254) 1-2 (9) 2-1 (181) 1-2 (93) V1-V2-V3 (had kunnen roepen) (185) V3-V2-V1 (roepen kunnen had) (18) V2-V3-V1 (kunnen roepen had) (18) V3-V2(PART)-V1 (17) V1-V3-V3 (had roepen kunnen) (7) V3-V1-V2(PART) (3) V3-V1-V2 (roepen had kunnen) (2) V1-V3-V2(PART) (1) 268 ARI 321+ item13, item72, item90 ARI 312+ item5, item82, item142 ARI 132+ item11, item33, item143 ARI123-item57, item133, item147 ARI 231-item81, item112, item123 ARI 213-item27, item93, item124

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Variation and change in contact settings

Cited by 13 publications

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Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Contact

Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Contact

Rapid Automatized Picture Naming as a Proficiency Assessment for Endangered Language Contexts: Results from Wilamowice

Bilingualism and Contact-Induced Language Change: exploring variation in the Frisian verbal complex

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