Variations in indigenous minority languages
By: edited by James N. Stanford, Dennis R. Preston.
Contributors: Stanford, James N.; Preston, Dennis Richard.
Series: Impact : studies in language and society -- v. 25
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9789027218643
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Language -- Variation; Minorities -- Language -- Variation; Language and languages -- Variation; Linguistic change; Linguistic minorities; Sociolinguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The phonetic and phonological effects of obsolescence in Northern Paiute / Molly Babel; title: Diglossia and monosyllabization in Eastern Cham: A sociolinguistic study / Marc Brunelle; title: Affricates in Lleidata: A sociophonetic case study / Josefina Carrera-Sabaté; title: Sociolinguistic stratification and new dialect formation in a Canadian aboriginal community: Not so different after all? / Sandra Clarke; title: The changing sound of the Maori language /Ray Harlow, Peter Keegan, Jeanette King, Margaret Maclagan, and Catherine Watson; title: Toward a study of language variation and change in Jonaz Chichimec / Yolanda Lastra; title: A sociolinguistic sketch of vowel shifts in Kaqchikel: ATR-RTR parameters and redundancy markedness of syllabic  nuclei in an Eastern Mayan language / Jean Leo Leonard and Cecilio Tuyuc Sucuc; title: Phonological features of attrition: The shift from Catalan to Spanish in Alicante / Brauli Montoya-Abat; title: Sociophonetic variation in urban Ewe / Kossi Noglo; title: Phonological variation in a Peruvian Quechua speech community / Michael Pasquale; title: A tale of two diphthongs in an indigenous minority language: Yami of Taiwan / D. Victoria Rau, Hui-Huan Ann Chang and Maa-Neu Dong; title: Phonological markedness, regional identity, and sex in Mayan: The fricativization of intervocalic /l/ in Kiche / Sergio Romero; title: The pronunciation of /r/ in Frisian: A comparative study with Dutch and Town Frisian / Renée van Bezooijen; title: Language shift among the Mansi / Bernadett Biro and Katalin Sipocz; title: Fine-grained morphophonological variation in Scottish Gaelic:  Evidence from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland / Anna Bosch and James Scobbie; title: Animacy in Bislama? Using quantitative methods to evaluate transfer of a substrate feature / Miriam Meyerhoff; title: The challenges of less commonly studied languages:  Writing a sociogrammar of Faetar / Naomi Nagy; title: Language variation and change in a North Australian indigenous community / Carmel O'Shannessy.