LIN 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canadian English, Grammaticalization, Vowel Shift
22 Mar 2016
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Variaion and change in canadian english and canadian french. Canada is oicially a bilingual state despite being a major anglophone naion. In 2006, 58% of canadians claimed english was their mother tongue. Francophone"s made roughly 22% of the canadian populaion. Canadian english is one of the most poorly documented varieies of english. Canadian raising: most disincive feature" of canadian english. Canadians drit their tone upwards, where americans drit theirs down. How we pronounce vowels is diferent from canadian to american. Canadian vowel shit: involves the retracion and lowering of /ae/ in the direcion of central open /a/ Deonic modality (represents the expression of obligaion: eg. You gotta do it: this has earned a lot of atenion because it represents an interesing case of longitudinal reorganizaion in language, have to is most common in north american or canadian english. Quotaives: be like is widely used. Increased 4. 5x in the past 7 years or so.
