LING316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Diphthong, Newfoundland English, Thirteen Colonies
10 Jan 2017
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Post-creole continuum o the coexistence of the creole and the superstratum language. People can range from the creole -------- standard. Similarities suggest it"s the same thing, but it is not the same thing. In spite of our size (often, speaker variation correlates with geographic o why is it that the variety we speak in canada is homogenous? distance) Standard canadian english by those who have been in this category for at least two generations . Chambers locates the standard variety as that of urban, middle-class english, The characteristics of this variety are found across the country (with the. The generational criteria is justified to limit it to l1 speakers, the other exception of newfoundland) qualifications are there since they include the majority of the population (urban and middle-class) The uniformity of ce is an extreme case of what is found in most new world societies which usually display less geographic and class variation than old.
