Newfoundland and Labrador English [electronic resource].
Clarke, Sandra.
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,
c2010.
This book is the first full-length volume to offer a comprehensive introduction to the English spoken in Britain's oldest overseas colony, and, since 1949, Canada's youngest province. Within North America, Newfoundland and Labrador English is a highly distinctive speech variety. It is known for its generally conservative nature, having retained close ties with its primary linguistic roots, the traditional speech of southwestern England and southern Ireland. It is also characterised by a high degree of regional and social variation. Over the past half century, the region has experienced substan
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: history, geography and demography; 2 Phonetics and phonology; 3 Morphosyntax; 4 Vocabulary and discourse features; 5 Language attitudes and language change; 6 Survey of previous work; 7 Sample texts; References; Index
This book is the first full-length volume to offer a comprehensive introduction to the English spoken in Britain's oldest overseas colony, and, since 1949, Canada's youngest province. Within North America, Newfoundland and Labrador English is a highly distinctive speech variety. It is known for its generally conservative nature, having retained close ties with its primary linguistic roots, the traditional speech of southwestern England and southern Ireland. It is also characterised by a high degree of regional and social variation. Over the past half century, the region has experienced substan
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English language - Dialects - Newfoundland and Labrador.
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