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King, Ruth – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Examined a nonstandard pattern of agreement found in certain varieties of Atlantic Canada Acadian French. Quantitative analysis of subject-verb agreement patterns in Newfoundland French revealed consistent invariant behavior in this dialect, or, where there is variation, variation constrained according to specific linguistically based factors. (19…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, French Canadians, Language Patterns