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The nasalization of the Haitian Creole determiner /la/ in non-nasal environments: A variationist sociolinguistic analysis| old_uid | 18992 |
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| title | The nasalization of the Haitian Creole determiner /la/ in non-nasal environments: A variationist sociolinguistic analysis |
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| start_date | 2021/04/19 |
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| schedule | 14h15-15h |
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| online | no |
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| details | le lien zoom sera annoncé la veille du séminaire sur
https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/grammaires-creoles-david-tezil-indiana-u-bloomington-stephane-terosier |
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| summary | The present study investigates the nasalization of the postposed determiner /la/ (LÃ) after an oral segment in Haitian Creole (HC), such as in chat la/lã [ atla/lã] ‘the cat’ and peyi a/an [pejija/ã] ‘the country’, a linguistic environment where nasalization is not expected to occur. It analyzes this language change extensively, using a variationist sociolinguistic approach.
The results show that the use of LÃ in non-nasal environments has been extended to speakers of different social profiles, for example, monolingual speakers and those living in rural locations of the country. Regarding the effect of linguistic environment, LÃ is strongly conditioned by the presence of high vowels. As for the influence of Frenchified features (e.g., French front rounded vowels) that characterize bilingual speech, the results suggest a correlation between the nasalization of the determiner and the presence of Frenchified features for the monolingual speakers with average and higher level of schooling, and not for the bilingual speakers and monolingual with lower level of education. From these results, this study suggests researchers to be cautious when using Frenchified HC and education levels as criteria to distinguish bilingual speakers from monolingual speakers. |
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| responsibles | Cabredo Hofherr |
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