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| Title: | A sociotonetic analysis of Sui dialect contact |
| Author: | James N. Stanford |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.dartmouth.edu/~linguist/faculty/stanford.html |
| Institution: | Dartmouth College |
| Linguistic Field: | Sociolinguistics |
| Abstract: | Sui clan exogamy can serve as a laboratory for investigation of dialect contact and immigration. The Sui people, an indigenous minority of southwest China, have marriage customs requiring that a wife and husband have different clan origins, and the wife permanently immigrates to the husband's village at the time of marriage. Due to subtle interclan dialect variation, a married woman may have different dialect features than her husband and other local villagers. This study presents an acoustic analysis of such clan-level variation in lexical tone, a analysis. Results show that the immigrant women maintain the tone variants of their home clan dialects to a high degree despite spending a decade or more in the husband's village, thus illustrating a case where linguistic identity is maintained in the face of close, long-term contact. |
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This article appears in Language Variation and Change Vol. 20, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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