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Hands-on coding and analysis| old_uid | 20256 |
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| title | Hands-on coding and analysis |
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| start_date | 2022/04/22 |
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| schedule | 15h30-17h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle 153 |
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| details | Chaire Internationale 2022 : What can heritage languages tell sociolinguists.
We will explore recent findings from variationist sociolinguistics, a quantitatively-grounded empirical approach to understanding connections between synchronic variation and diachronic change in spoken language. We will examine outcomes from a comparative study of ten heritage languages (unofficial languages acquired at home in immigrant-based communities). These languages, all spoken in Toronto, Canada, differ typologically, culturally and demographically. Thus, comparison provides insight into how the linguistic ecology affects languages. Unlike many experimental studies of heritage languages that show them to be deficient or “attrited” in comparison to homeland (monolingual) varieties, this approach shows the phonetic and grammatical production of heritage-language speakers to be quite similar, in terms of both the rate of use of competing variants and the factors which condition the variation. |
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| summary | "It should be stressed that the results we obtained...are not meant to be independent of this particular set of languages. In other language pairs, quite different factors may turn out to be operant, depending on sociolinguistic factors and different contrasting typological properties."
(van Hout & Muysken 1994:61, Modeling lexical borrowability in LVC)
With this quote as guiding motivation, we will work with transcribed speech data in ELAN (from the HLVC Project or as provided by students) to analyze a few linguistic variables and see how they are conditioned. Guidelines for preparatory “homework” will be provided ahead of time. |
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| responsibles | Isel |
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