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Modelling stylistic variation in threatened and under-documented languages
Kasstan, J.. - : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020
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Emergent sociolinguistic variation in severe language endangerment
Kasstan, J.. - : Cambridge University Press, 2019
Abstract: Contrary to Labov’s Principle of style shifting, studies in language obsolescence portray speakers of dying languages as ‘monostylistic’, a characterization questioned here. Variationist methodology is adopted in a context of gradual language death. By combining quantitative and interactional analyses of data from older, younger, and new speakers of Francoprovençal in France and Switzerland, the article considers (a) to what extent variability in language obsolescence differs from that found in ‘healthy’ languages, and (b) how innovations might spread through communities speaking threatened languages characterized as ‘monostylistic’ and lacking overt normative infrastructure. It is argued that style variation (not monostylism) emerges from linguistic decay: among more fluent speakers, a categorical rule of /l/-palatalization before obstruents becomes underspecified, rendering palatalization available for strategic use. Among new speakers, novel palatal variants form part of an emergent sociolinguistic norm. The study offers fresh insights on the origins of sociolinguistic variation with implications for variationist theory.
Keyword: language death; language obsolescence; language variation and change; new speakers; style variation
URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404519000472
https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/download/b09e3ee0ea06e8236dba0f0608c4bd6213349e09478355fe31c2ec38cedcfc3b/374364/LSY-A-18-120.R1-KASSTAN-PDF.pdf
https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/qqx5v/emergent-sociolinguistic-variation-in-severe-language-endangerment
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