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Garcia, MaryEllen – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1998
Literature regarding Southwest Spanish suggests gender agreement with nouns is being lost. A study of recorded speech from 11 Spanish speakers in San Antonio (Texas) shows gender agreement is neither random nor largely nonstandard, suggesting gender marking is a rule still observed in this dialect. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns, Language Variation

Cardoso, Walcir – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Offers an optimality theoretic account for the phonological process of across-word regressive assimilation (AWRA) in Picard, a Gallo-Romance dialect spoken in the Picardie region in Northern France and Southern Belgium. Focuses on the varieties spoken in the Vimeu region of France. Examines one particular topic in the analysis of AWRA: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory

Montgomery, Michael – Now and Then, 1992
Tracing Appalachian speech to different areas of the British Isles entailed researching hard-to-find linguistic studies and original texts in Belfast, Edinburgh, and other locations. The Scotch-Irish contribution significantly outweighs that from Southern Britain and appears much more responsible for the grammatical features of Appalachian…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns

Flikeid, Karin – Language and Communication, 1992
Historic linguistic consequences were studied in five separate areas of Atlantic Canada's Acadian population. Focus was on certain verbs in the third person present plural and the hypothesis that "allent" and faisent" are the result of hypercorrection. Results suggest complex reasons for their use and an indication of some social…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, French, Grammar

Di Paolo, Marianna – Language and Communication, 1992
Acoustic analysis of two vowels thought to be merged in Utah English suggest that there are small but consistent differences between them. A matched guise experiment provides evidence that when the vowels are merged hypercorrection is involved. (33 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns

Anton, Marta M. – Hispania, 1998
A sociolinguistic analysis of pronunciation patterns of postnuclear occlusive consonants in northern peninsular Spanish resulted in (1) understanding of the vitality of the use of distinct allophonic variations; (2) characterization of sociolinguistic usage tendencies in relation to speakers' demographic characteristics; and (3) identification of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns

Holloway, Charles – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1997
Brule and Isleno dialects of Spanish came to Louisiana from the Canary Islands simultaneously in the 18th century but have remained relatively isolated from each other and face extinction. Although they show common evidence of their origin, each has distinctive lexical, phonological, and syntactic features, some from contact with Acadian French or…
Descriptors: English, French, Geographic Distribution, Language Maintenance

Weil, Karen S.; Fitch, James L.; Wolfe, Virginia I. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
Specific diphthongs were produced by four individuals from the coastal southern dialect region who were selected from among those who had successfully completed an accent-reduction program. Results showed that diphthongs used in Southern English were shorter and had less noticeable transitional elements than those in Standard American English.…
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Language Impairments
Yaeger-Dror, Malcah – 1988
Analysis of a dialect's phonological change over time compares the vowel systems of individual speakers in 1971 and 1984. Subjects were four speakers of Montreal French. Two were born between 1910 and 1920, and two between 1944 and 1950. One individual in each pair was upper middle class and one was not, and no change of social status occurred…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, French
Meziani, Ahmed – IRAL, 1989
A discussion of the perception and use of tense in Moroccan Arabic proposes that the language expresses verb aspect much more readily than tense. Implications for teaching Moroccan Arabic as a second language are discussed, and an analysis of the system of tense and aspect in the language is presented. (MSE)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Arabic, Language Patterns, Regional Dialects

Schilling-Estes, Natalie; Wolfram, Walt – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Using the case of a vernacular variety spoken on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, this article demonstrates how linguistic-systemic principles such as remorphologization, psycholinguistic principles of perceptual saliency, and sociolinguistic processes of symbolic identity converge to account for the development of leveling in this community.…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Cognitive Processes, Dialect Studies, Geographic Isolation

Silva, David James – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Conversational data from a native speaker of European Portuguese from the island of Faial were analyzed to determine segmental and prosodic contexts favoring unstressed vowel deletion. Factors such as rhythmic preservation, syllable structure, and functional load are discounted in the analysis, suggesting vowel deletion is essentially a word-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory

Song, Jae Jung – Language Quarterly, 1994
Argues that the language policies in North and South Korea are in some respects divergent and in others convergent. The North uses more nativized words, while the South retains Sino-Korean words. Awareness of each other's policies and their implications in the event of reunification is evident in the regressive measures taken. (23 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Korean, Korean Culture, Language Patterns

Dubois, Sylvie – Language Variation and Change, 1992
A study of the use of phrase-terminal extension particles in Montreal (Canada) French analyzed composition, sociodemographic patterns of occurrence, and discourse functions of 76 particle types in 4 distinct classes. (MSE)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), French
Thomas, Ceinwen H. – 1974
Ongoing research conducted by the Welsh Language Research Unit of Cardiff, Wales is described. This research has concentrated mainly on recording and describing the phonology of some varieties of Welsh spoken in South-East Wales, particularly as it is associated with geographic areas and affected by population changes resulting from industrial…
Descriptors: Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language)