Dialect Emergence in Waumandee English

ISBN-13: 9783039109111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 214 str.

David N. Ehrat

Recenzje

"(...) Ehrat presents an in-depth and meticulously detailed description of individual consonant and vowel features as well as different processes of sound change at various stages of development. [...] this monograph is a strong contribution to the field of dialectology and American English linguistics." (Lorie A. Vanchena, Yearbook of German-American Studies)

Spis treści

Contents: Waumandee history - Immigrants - Choice and defense of traditional dialect approach - Description of sample population - Setting up a questionnaire - Language change mechanisms in Waumandee - Different parameters governing the analysis - Ethnicity - Gender - Psychological factors of intercultural language acquisition - Dialect emergence and how a dialect can be defined against a standard - Family tree model and Wave Theory - Language contact in Waumandee - Establishing a lingua franca - Diachronic results from synchronic data - The dialect situation surrounding Waumandee - Vowel sounds - Great Vowel Shift - Consonant sounds - Metathesis - Grimm's Law - Hypercorrections - Sandhi forms - Overview over the progressing changes in Waumandee English.

O autorze

The Author: David N. Ehrat studied English literature and linguistics, musicology and general linguistics at Zurich University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 2005.