CHUVASH SUBSTRATE OF CHEBOKSARY REGIONAL DIALECT OF RUSSIAN

AbstractIn Raleigh, North Carolina, a Southern U.S. city, five decades of in-migration of technology-sector workers from outside the South has resulted in large-scale contact between the local Southern dialect and non-Southern dialects. This paper investigates the speed and magnitude of the reversal of the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS) with respect to the five front vowels, using Trudgill's (1998) model of dialect contact as a framework. The data consist of conversational interviews with 59 white-collar Raleigh natives representing three generations, the first generation having reached adulthood before large-scale contact. Acoustic analysis shows that all vowels shift away from their Southern variants across apparent time. The leveling of SVS variants begins within the first generation to grow up after large-scale contact began, and contrary to predictions, this generation does not show wide inter- or intraspeaker variability. Previous studies of dialect contact and new dialect formation suggest that leveling of regional dialect features and the establishment of stable linguistic norms occurs more quickly when children have regular contact with one another. Dialect contact in Raleigh has occurred primarily within the middle and upper classes, the members of which are densely connected by virtue of schools and heavy economic segregation in neighborhood residence.

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Dutch dialectology

Historiographia Linguistica ◽

10.1075/hl.15.1-2.13hag ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 15 (1-2) ◽

pp. 263-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anton M. Hagen

Keyword(s):

International Perspective ◽

Turn Of The Century ◽

National Heritage ◽

Diffusion Studies ◽

Different Types ◽

Regional Dialect ◽

National Perspective ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

International Character ◽

Historical Sketch

Summary This paper presents an historical sketch of Dutch dialectology in a twofold perspective: the national perspective, in which dialectology is an integral part of the study of Dutch, and the international perspective, in which Dutch dialectology participates in international developments in the field. The period until 1880 has a clearly self-centered orientation; especially in the 19th century, dialects are viewed as a part of the national heritage. The German and French schools in linguistic geography are used as examples in the period of the emergence of scientific Dutch dialectology (1880–1930); after pioneering work at the turn of the century, it takes until the twenties before a good infrastructure for dialect research is built up. Two of the promotors from that period, Jac. van Ginneken (1877–1945) and Gesinus G. Kloeke (1887–1963), receive special attention for their remarkable sociolinguistic contributions to dialectology. The period 1930–1960 is one of consolidation and of fundamental reflections upon the history and the differentiation of Dutch, as can be seen from different types of studies (basic projects, regional dialect studies, diffusion studies, contact studies). The most recent period since 1960 again displays a more international character as is demonstrated with reference to structural, generative, and sociolinguistic dialect studies.

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Hands off the metadata!: Comparing the use of explicit and background metadata in crowdsourced dialectology

Linguistics Vanguard ◽

10.1515/lingvan-2019-0029 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (s1) ◽

Author(s):

Tamsin Blaxter ◽

David Britain

Keyword(s):

Language Variation ◽

Social Background ◽

Smartphone Application ◽

Background Information ◽

British Isles ◽

Language Variation And Change ◽

Digital Era ◽

The Social ◽

Dialect Variation ◽

Regional Dialect

Abstract In this article we assess the extent to which we can collect plausible data about regional dialect variation using crowdsourcing techniques – the BBC Future Survey – without explicitly gathering any user metadata, but relying instead on background information collected by Google Analytics. In order to do this, we compare this approach with another crowdsourced survey, operated from a smartphone application, which examines the same site – the British Isles – but which explicitly asks users to submit detailed social background information – the English Dialects App (EDA) (Leemann et al. 2018). The EDA has the disadvantage that there is a considerable user drop-off between completing the dialect survey and completing the social metadata questionnaire. The BBC Future Survey, however, only collects information on where users are physically located when they complete the survey – not where they are from or even where they live. Results show that the BBC Future Survey produces a plausible snapshot of regional dialect variability that can complement other more sophisticated (expensive, time-consuming) approaches to investigating language variation and change. We suggest the approach constitutes a digital-era rapid anonymous survey along the lines of Labov (1972), serving similar aims, with similar success, but on a much much larger scale.

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Nasalance Levels in the Speech of Normal Australian Children

The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal ◽

10.1597/1545-1569_1998_035_0287_nlitso_2.3.co_2 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 287-292 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Jan Van Doorn ◽

Alison Purcell

Keyword(s):

Cleft Palate ◽

Age Groups ◽

Metropolitan Region ◽

Age Dependence ◽

Normal Limits ◽

Reference Information ◽

Regional Dialect ◽

Australian English ◽

Gender Dependence ◽

Age Range

Objective Nasalance scores have been shown to depend on the regional dialect of English spoken. Australian cleft palate clinics are increasingly making use of the Nasometer as part of their evaluation of velopharyngeal inadequacy. There are, however, no normative data for Australian English available as reference information. The objective of this study, therefore, was to obtain comprehensive nasalance data for a large group of Australian children, aged 4 to 9 years, for two standard nasalance passages (Zoo Passage and Nasal Sentences) and to investigate any gender or age differences within that age range. Participants The participants were 245 children (123 female, 122 male) ranging in age from 4 years, 0 months, to 9 years, 3 months. The children were recruited from a variety of schools and preschools across the Sydney metropolitan region. The children all spoke Australian English, and their hearing, articulation skills, and speech resonance were within normal limits. Method Mean nasalance scores were obtained for two speech passages that are used as standards for Nasometer testing (Zoo Passage and Nasal Sentences). In addition, the nasalance data were analyzed for any gender and age dependence, using separate analyses of variance for each speech passage. Five consecutive age groups were used to examine age dependence (4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, and 8-year-old children). Results A mean score of 13.1 (SD, 5.9) was obtained for the Zoo Passage, and a mean of 59.6 (SD, 8.1) for the Nasal Sentences. The analysis of variance results indicated that, at a probability level of p < 0.01, there was no statistically significant age or gender dependence for either speech passage. Conclusion These normative nasalance data for children who speak Australian English will provide important reference information for clinicians who assess nasality disorders in cleft palate clinics in Australia.

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Understanding Chinese tourists' perceptions of Cantonese as a regional dialect

Tourism Management ◽

10.1016/j.tourman.2018.10.006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 71 ◽

pp. 127-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yufan Lu ◽

Ganghua Chen ◽

Songshan (Sam) Huang ◽

Jigang Bao

Keyword(s):

Regional Dialect ◽

Chinese Tourists

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Regional dialect perception across the lifespan: Identification and discrimination

Language and Speech ◽

10.1177/0023830917743277 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 115-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Elizabeth A. McCullough ◽

Cynthia G. Clopper ◽

Laura Wagner

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Young Children ◽

New England ◽

American English ◽

Region Of Origin ◽

Midwestern United States ◽

Regional Dialects ◽

Cognitive Difficulty ◽

Regional Dialect

Although adult listeners can often identify a talker’s region of origin based on his or her speech, young children typically fail in dialect perception tasks, and little is known about the development of regional dialect representations from childhood into adulthood. This study explored listeners’ understanding of the indexical importance of American English regional dialects across the lifespan. Listeners between 4 and 79 years old in the Midwestern United States heard talkers from the Midland, Northern, Southern, and New England regions in two regional dialect perception tasks: identification and discrimination. The results showed that listeners as young as 4–5 years old understand the identity-marking significance of some regional dialects, although adult-like performance was not achieved until adolescence. Further, the findings suggest that regional dialect perception is simultaneously impacted by the specific dialects involved and the cognitive difficulty of the task.

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