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- Title
Participation in (non)salient linguistic change over the lifespan: An examination of panel speakers' life stories.
- Authors
Mougeon, Raymond; Rehner, Katherine; Mougeon, Françoise
- Abstract
This paper addresses linguistic change over the lifespan by examining two cases of variation in the speech of the minority Francophone community of Welland, Ontario: (i) consequence markers so, fait que, alors, and donc ("therefore") and (ii) markers of restriction juste, seulement que, (r)ien que, and (ne...) que ("only"). Using two sociolinguistic corpora collected 40 years apart, this paper first examines the impact of social factors on both cases at the community level, revealing that so and juste are rising at the expense of their competitors, and documenting differences in the speed of each rise and in the social marking of the rising variant. Second, it examines whether 12 speakers recorded in both corpora are participating in each rise, revealing important interindividual differences, including, for some, patterns of age‐grading that go against the community trends. Explanations for these patterns are linked to the 12 speakers' sociolinguistic life stories.
- Subjects
LINGUISTIC change; LIFE spans; FRENCH-speaking people; MINORITIES; FRENCH-Canadians
- Publication
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2022, Vol 26, Issue 2, p265
- ISSN
1360-6441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/josl.12544