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Tagliamonte, Sali A. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
The goal of the paper is to demonstrate how sociolinguistic research can be applied to endangered language documentation field linguistics. It first provides an overview of the techniques and practices of sociolinguistic fieldwork and the ensuring corpus compilation methods. The discussion is framed with examples from research projects focused on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Dialects
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Roberge, Yves – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Poplack, Zentz and Dion (PZD; Poplack, Zentz & Dion, 2011, this issue) examine the often unquestioned assumption that the existence of preposition stranding (PS) in Canadian French is linked to the presence of a contact situation with English in the North American context. Although this issue has been the topic of previous research from a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Form Classes (Languages), French
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Rosen, Nicole – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
This paper discusses the language contact situation between Algonquian languages and French in Canada. Michif, a French-Plains Cree mixed language, is used as a case study for linguistic results of language contact. The paper describes the phonological, morphological, and syntactic conflict sites between the grammars of Plains Cree and French, as…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Interference (Language), Speech Language Pathology, Foreign Countries
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Edwards, Vivien – 1973
High school students in Quebec city were tested for their ability to choose Standard French as opposed to Anglicized modes of expression. Lexical, syntagmatic, and phrase Anglicisms were covered. Both direct lexical borrowings from English and translations of idiomatic English terms were included. Students were divided into categories according to…
Descriptors: French, High School Students, Language Proficiency, Language Research
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Starets, Moshe – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Presents the results of a study of Francophone pupils in the French schools of Windsor, Ontario. The article gives examples of nonstandard features pervading students' French vocabulary and syntax and concludes that a hybrid vernacular may be emerging as a result of the Canadian sociolinguistic situation, creating a challenge to the teaching of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, Elementary School Students
Laberge, Julie, Ed.; Vezina, Robert, Ed. – 1996
The 33 papers, all in French, from the 1996 conference on research in linguistics address a wide range of topics in linguistics, including: linguists as an endangered species; categorizing verb specifiers in Yoruba; socio-terminology as a framework for understanding the language of orthodontia; French-to-Arabic borrowings in the 19th and 20th…
Descriptors: Advertising, African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism