LING 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moodle, Blind Experiment, Multiple Choice
21 Oct 2017
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The ethnic structure of the montreal english-speaking community bo(cid:271)erg(cid:859)s tud(cid:455) Allophones (first lang. anything but franc/anglo: mtl is the only city in n. a where english is a minority lang, the british irish would be speaking the least marked english. Friends (conformity w/ certain friends), family, home: how would you get natural speech for research, talking about an emotional or traumatic event, talking about a passionate event. Labov (cid:894)duri(cid:374)g his stud(cid:455) of the /r/ i(cid:374) (cid:862)forth floor(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:862)foath floa(cid:863)(cid:895) would ask them to repeat it to fully understand what they said/meant. Results: he could verify the phonetic pronunciation, phonetic variation at statistically significant levels among the 3 ethnic groups, variables were radically different, at one level, all participants spoke a common variety being. English: at another level, there distinguished each ethnic group from the other, reflected the sociohistorical background of each group, displa(cid:455)ed mtl(cid:859)s o(cid:449)(cid:374) histor(cid:455, this creates a situation where someone who speaks english will encounter someone who speaks french.
