LING 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Canadian Shift, Canadian Raising, Italian Canadians
14 Mar 2018
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Important stuff: research proposal is due monday. Last class: ethnolinguistic variation and change, key concepts and terms, ethnicity in canada, ethnic varieties of english. Today: continue talking about montreal and toronto research. Case studies: montreal: about 13% of montreal"s population is anglophone (~600k, largest population speaking english is in montreal, neighbourhoods in montreal are very ethnically segregated, largest non-british non-french ethnic groups in montreal, ashkenazi jews. Italian (3rd most spoken language in montreal: both of these groups speak english because the communities arrived before the quiet. Revolution: both of these communities speak varieties of english that are distinct from montrealers of. Italians: lower unraised /ai, do not participate in fronting of /u/ (goose, high back vowel rather than centralized. /o/ (goat: british heritage montrealers raise /ae/ before nasals but jewish and italian. Montrealers don"t: very salient difference to non-montrealers. Italian vocabulary - grammar: phrase-initial ma [but] "i"ll do or this or that: present tense rather than past perfect.
