This diachronic study tracks Louisiana French syllable structure and sound patterns over
several decades, offering an in-depth, quantitative evaluation of language death and …

Extreme weather events can result in natural disasters, and climate change can cause these
weather events to occur more often and with more intensity. Because of social and physical …

Louisiana French is undergoing gradual language death. In such situations, it is common to
find increased variability and rapid change, as speakers use the language less often and in …

This article outlines the differences in goals, methods and results that variationist
researchers may encounter when exploring and/or documenting a threatened language …

This paper examines variation in Louisiana French nasalized vowels across two time
periods: 1977 and 2010–2011. Non-contrastive nasal vowels are typical of English, while …

Louisiana's cultural and linguistic heritage has always presented a gumbo of mixed
influences (Picone and Valdman 2005; Melançon 2006), with the undeniable role of French …

This paper examines/ɛ/lowering before/r/in Louisiana Regional French (eg,
père,/pɛr/→[pær],[pɛr]'father') between 1977 and 2011 in a small geographic region. The …

Louisiana has always been something of an anomaly in the American South—
geographically it is distinguished by the crisscrossing bayous of the Mississippi delta; …

This paper is concerned with the concept of moral language endangerment by which is
meant the unnoticed danger that a language is exposed to in what makes its identity at …