LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Saint Lawrence River, Canadian English, Vocal Folds

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LIN 1340
• Professor: Stephen Levey

Document Summary

Midterm: true or false, multiple choice, vocab, sho(cid:336)t a(cid:296)swe(cid:336) (cid:335)"s, data interpretation. Great vowel shift: affects pronunciation of long vowels. Apparent time: comparing same community at same time but different generations. Large cities are the locations of super diversity. Distinctive linguistic feature of canada is its linguistic duality. The official languages act 1969 gave english and french equal status as official languages. Canadian english was first recorded in 1857. It is now recognized as an endonormative variation of english (ie. not a branch of american or british english) Has its own norms, codified in dictionaries. Compared to most colonial english, canadian english is the least documented of all major varieties of english. One of its characteristics is the relative linguistic uniformity of its major urban varieties. (cid:718)ca(cid:296)ada has a (cid:336)e(cid:295)a(cid:336)kabl(cid:383) ho(cid:295)o(cid:258)e(cid:296)eous u(cid:336)ba(cid:296) (cid:295)iddle-class accent from sea to sea e(cid:382)cept i(cid:296) new(cid:257)ou(cid:296)dla(cid:296)d a(cid:296)d quebec(cid:719) Most emblematic phonological feature is known as canadian raising.