Language in Performance (LIP)

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    Levelling and diffusion in the Cumbrian city dialect of Carlisle

    Sandra Jansen

    This book presents a synchronic investigation of variation and change processes in Carlisle English, a variety spoken in the far north-west of England. The dataset is based on sociolinguistic interviews and the variation in the variables Goose, Goat and Foot, (T), (R) and (TH) is analysed quantitatively in order to detect diffusion and levelling processes as outcomes of dialect contact scenarios in Carlisle.

    Stress Variation in English

    Alexander Tokar

    This monograph is concerned with the question of why some English words have more than one stress pattern. E.g., <i>'overt</i> vs. <i>o'vert, 'pulsate</i> vs. <i>pul'sate</i>, etc. It is argued that cases such as these are due to the fact that the morphological structure of one and the same English word can sometimes be analyzed in more than one way. Thus, <i>'overt</i> is the stress pattern of the suffixation analysis <i>over</i> + <i>-t</i>, whereas <i>o'vert</i> is due to the prefixation analysis <i>o-</i> + <i>-vert</i> (cf. <i>covert</i>). Similarly, <i>pulsate</i> is simultaneously <i>pulse</i> + <i>-ate</i> (i.e., a suffixed derivative) and a back-derivative from <i>pul'satance</i>. <br /><br /> «Tokar's approach in the use of both dictionary (OED) and corpus data (YouTube) holds promise of a scholarly breakthrough on the vital linguistic prosodic topic of English stress assignment of doublets and of stress assignment in general.» (Irmengard Rauch, Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley)

    Language planning and policy in Quebec

    Jakob Leimgruber

    This book presents an in-depth study of the language policies present in the Canadian province of Quebec, and considers them from a comparative perspective, with special focus on Singapore and Wales. In so doing, it uses a mix of methods to look at the effects of language planning on language use: questionnaires, linguistic landscapes (visible language in public space), ethnography, and psycholinguistic experiments. Besides offering background information on Canada and Quebec, the comparative element uses data from Singapore and Wales to shine a new light on how language is managed in Quebec.