LING 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Vowel Shift, Canadian English, Newfoundland English
20 Feb 2018
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Class xii: february 14th 2018; canadian english language. Assignments 2 instructions: finalize your questionnaire and make copies for distribution, collect data from participants, tabulate your data (summarize your results in tables) Lexical change: vocabulary marks different varieties of english, lexicon is part of linguistic system most susceptible to change. s-curve typical pattern of change: other canadianisms, gradual decrease over time unlike that of chesterfield which pretty much disappeared after 1986. Is there increasing americanization: maybe, different rates of change for different words, most change very gradual. /e/, /ae/ (kit, dress, trap) lowering and retracting: triggered by merger of /a/ and /c/ (caought-cot) If cvs is ongoing change in progress this should be reflected in: distribution of realization of these vowels by age, younger speakers more lowered and retracted realizations, shows change in progress in apparent time. Toronto english corpus: future temporal reference, deontic modality, possessive have. English: must disappearing, have to is becoming categorical in cdn.
