Social and regional factors in canadian english : A study of phonological items in ottawa and vancouver /
Gaelan Dodds de Wolf
- Toronto Canadian Scholar`s Press 1992
- 184 p.
CANADIAN ENGLISH: VARIATION IN THE STANDARD DIALECT. Background to the study. The standard language and the standard value. The field in review. CULTURAL COMPONENTS OF OTTAWA AND VANCOUVER. Demographic characteristics of Ottawa and its environs. Greater Vancouver, western Canada’s largest metropolitan area. Urban trends and ethnic composition: Canada, Ottawa and Vancouver. CHARACTERISTICS OF CANADIAN ENGLISH. The lexicon and Canadian English. General elements of Canadian English. SOCIOLINGUISTIC METHODOLOGY. Social stratification. Methodology of the study. CO-VARIATION IN CANADIAN ENGLISH: AND ANALYSIS OF CERTAIN SALIENT PHONOLOGICAL VARIABLES. The variable (VtV): intervocalic voicing in Canadian. English (Ottawa and Vancouver). The variable (ntV): Gender, location and social status. GRAMMATICAL USAGE AND REGIONAL VARIATION. Syntactic variants: aren`t I, do you have, never used to. ""Preferred"" Past tense variants: lay, snuck, dove. Present perfect standard variants: drunk, lay, proven. LANGUAGE USE IN CANADIAN ENGLISH. Accent: factors in phonological variability. Grammatical variability in the Canadian dialect. Determining speech usage in Canadian English: definition and further research.