A variationist analysis of first-person-singular subject expression in Louisiana French

A Gudmestad, K Carmichael - Language Variation and Change, 2022 - cambridge.org
In this study, we investigate first-person-singular subject expression in Louisiana French.
This variety is undergoing language death and features extreme variation, with twelve first …

Putting “the Other Maine” on the Map: Language Variation, Local Affiliation, and Co-occurrence in Aroostook County English

K Pabst - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Abstract This dissertation examines Aroostook County English, an understudied variety
spoken at the border of Northern Maine (USA) and Western New Brunswick (Canada). The …

A comparative variationist analysis of phonetic variation and change in Toronto Heritage Tagalog

P Umbal - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Heritage languages are defined as a product of language contact. In this scenario, patterns
of variability are often attributed to contact with the majority language. However, variability …

Uniform information density explains subject doubling in French

Y Liang, P Amsili, H Burnett… - Proceedings of the Annual …, 2024 - escholarship.org
In this paper we investigate whether subject doubling in French is affected by the Uniform
Information Density (UID) principle, which states that speakers prefer language encoding …

French subject doubling: A third path

Y Liang, C Donati, H Burnett - Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance …, 2024 - hal.science
This paper revisits the status of subject clitics in Spoken French by studying subject doubling
as a sociolinguistic variable. In the literature, two influential analyses have been proposed to …