DiC 8 - Dialect Death
Dialects In Contact - Dialect Death, Session 8
Dialects In Contact - Dialect Death, Session 8
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Dialect Death
-loss of specific features
>what is replacing them?
how were most of the studys done?
newspapers made questionnaires + distributed them in areas of traditional dialects
problems of questionnaire style?
- huge loss in recognition of local dialect words
- words don't occur frequent enough in everyday speech
words which are more widespread= more likely to be recognized
different levels of dialect death
1. lexical
2. phonological
3. morphological
4. syntax
lexical death:
study
(not very popular among linguists)
EDP Survey:
- survey conducted by a newspaper of dialect words.
- SE of England: traditional, distinct dialect of English > Norfolk
- ppl were asked for a translation/recognition
EDP Survey:
Recogintion
- recognition of local dialect words
EDP Survey:
Problems
problems with lexical features:
- in natural speech, a word may not occur at all, you have to ask what word they would use (lexical choice)
> intuitions can be wrong = PROBLEM
EDP Survey:
Conclusion
- recognized: local dialect words
- problems: lexical features
> words on list could not only be found in East Anglia
> more broadly used words are more likely to be recognized than more local ones
Structural Attrition:
East Anglia Study
-Kingston 2000
-strange dialect features seem to be dying out.
Structural Attrition:
Newcastle Study
Watt & Milroy 1999
NURSE, GOAT, FACE
-also dying out.
-gender difference: males retaining traditional forms more than women > often reoccurs
Structural Attrition:
Norwich Study
Trudgill 1974
-rather odd dialect features are disappearing
Kingston 2000
Structural Attrition:
East Anglia Study
3rd person zero, unstressed schwa, breaking
>dying out
Watt & Milroy 1999
Structural Attrition
Newcastle Study
NURSE, GOAT, FACE
> dying out
> gender differences: males retaining more
Trudgill 1974
Structural attrition
Norwich Study
>odd dialect features dying out
rhoticity
-can be tracked easily
-from 1880s getting lost
-areas are getting smaller
-in some places they survive
-migration London > SW = spreading effect
hyperrhoticity
produce /r/ where it isn't = often last attempt to resist
Ocracoke
-fishing place
-ppl go there on holiday
-rural, isolated BUT there is contact
>dialect is dying out
Smith Island
-locals are moving off
-population is reducing
-no huge tourism + travel
>reverse in dialect: dialects diverge from main island
Liverpool
-big demographic loss
-able to resist changes from london + keep distinctive dialect features
-focussing its dialect
-diverging from mainstream
>cities where trad. features survive (strange!). dialectologists would have expected the contrary, but MIGRATION makes sense of this
why are local rural forms dying out?
contact (demographic)
lexical attrition
appears to affect historically locally embedded words more than words with a wider regional and national currency
phonological attrition
-women have a leading role in attrition progress.
-it's not the standard RP taking over
dialect death:
conclusion
more regular and intensive contact with speakers of other dialects due to extensive social, economic + geographical mobility (which weakens social networks)
