| Автор | SCHREIER, DANIEL |
| Автор | TRUDGILL, PETER |
| Дата выпуска | 2006 |
| dc.description | This article looks into convergence processes that involve distinct phonological systems in dialect contact situations, exemplified by the variety of English that developed on Tristan da Cunha, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Based on a discussion of the communityʼs social history and an auditory analysis of the segmental phonology of late nineteenth-century Tristan da Cunha English, this article reconstructs the early contact scenario and looks into both phonological convergence and independent innovative mechanisms that accompany new-dialect formation. The data presented here show that dialect contact gives rise to mixing of several inputs (so that ‘new’ dialects draw features from several ancestral varieties), that the interaction of transplanted dialects may also trigger independent, variety-specific mechanisms, and that the interplay of feature retention, input mixing, and local innovation lead to distinctive and (on occasion) endemic varieties of English. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | The segmental phonology of nineteenth-century Tristan da Cunha English: convergence and local innovationWe wish to thank Karen Lavarello-Schreier for her invaluable help with data analysis. We are also obliged to Randy McGuire, Pius XII Memorial Library at St Louis University, for kindly making recordings from the Svensson corpus available to us. |
| DOI | 10.1017/S136067430600181X |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-4379 |
| Print ISSN | 1360-6743 |
| Журнал | English Language and Linguistics |
| Том | 10 |
| Первая страница | 119 |
| Последняя страница | 141 |
| Аффилиация | SCHREIER DANIEL; University of Zurich |
| Аффилиация | TRUDGILL PETER; Agder University College |
| Выпуск | 1 |
