31.3791, Books: Language and Dialect Contact in Ireland: Maguire

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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 22:11:47
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Language and Dialect Contact in Ireland: Maguire

Title: Language and Dialect Contact in Ireland 
Subtitle: The Phonological Origins of Mid-Ulster English 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
	   www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

Book URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-language-and-dialect-contact-in-ireland-hb.html 

Author: Warren Maguire

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474452939 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 75
Electronic: ISBN:  9781474452922 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 75
Hardback: ISBN:  9781474452908 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 75

Abstract:

Traces the phonological origins of one of the oldest colonial varieties of
English

*Draws on data from the phonology and phonological history of Ulster English,
and regional varieties of English and Scots

*Examines consonantal features, including velar palatalisation, pre-R
dentalisation, epenthesis, consonant cluster simplification, palatal
velarisation, and (non-)rhoticity

*Examines the origins of vowel quality and quantity (including the Scottish
Vowel Length Rule), and vowel lexical distribution

*Draws on theories of language contact and shift, reinforcement,
koinéisation, new dialect formation and colonial lag

*Draws on previously unpublished phonological data for Mid-Ulster English from
the Linguistic Survey of Scotland and from a corpus of audio recordings of
traditional south-west Tyrone English

Warren Maguire examines Mid-Ulster English as a key case of new dialect
formation, considering the roles of language shift and dialect contact in its
phonological development. He explores the different processes which led to the
development of MUE through contact between dialects of English, Scots and
Irish and examines the history of a wide range of consonantal and vocalic
features. In addition to determining the phonological origins of MUE, Maguire
shows us why the dialect developed in the way that it did and considers what
the phonology of the dialect can tell us about the nature of contact between
the input language varieties. In doing so, he demonstrates the kinds of
analysis and techniques that can be used to explain the development of
extra-territorial varieties of English and colonial dialects in complex
situations of contact, and shows that Irish English provides a useful
testing-ground for models of new dialect formation.

As one of the oldest ‘new’ extra-territorial varieties of English, one which
developed in a context of language and dialect contact, MUE provides an
excellent opportunity to study how new dialects develop in situations of
settlement colonisation.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English  (eng)

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