Language and Dialect Death - E-book

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Theorising Sound Change In Obsolescent Gascon

Damien Mooney

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ISBN:	9783031511011
Formato:	ePub
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Estudio de lengua extranjera
Subtema:	Estudio de lengua extranjera
Año de publicación:	2024-02-14

This book offers a systematic acoustic phonetic analysis of both language and dialect death in the region of BÃ©arn, southwestern France. Focusing on BÃ©arnais, a localised dialect of Gascon which is under pressure from French, the author explores the socio-political process of language shift, whereby members ofÂ a speech community cease to speak their indigenous language in favour of an incoming dominant language.Â Gascon is at an advanced stage of this process, making its remaining speakersÂ excellent candidates for the study of language obsolescence, and this unique study will be of interest toÂ researchers working in a broad range of disciplines, includingÂ language variation and change, language and dialect contact, OccitanÂ and French, sociophonetics and phonology.

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