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Some connections between linguistic change and the written language: The behavior of speakers aged 3 to 20

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2006

Josefina Carrera-Sabaté
Josefina Carrera-Sabaté
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Universitat de Barcelona
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Abstract

After the Franco dictatorship, written Catalan started to be taught officially in the schools of Catalonia. This teaching has involved a change in some phonetic, morphological, and lexical habits, especially among speakers schooled in Catalan as a first language. The present study shows a linguistic change process observed in Northwestern Catalan linguistic communities. Its focus is the study of absolute initial prestressed vowels spelled 〈e〉 which have traditionally been uttered with solution [a] in forms such as encara ‘yet’ or estudi ‘study’. The population analyzed is the one that is receiving or has received the biggest influence from written language: speakers between 3 and 20 years of age. The data obtained allows us to observe a phonetic change directly connected to writing.I would like to thank Carlos van Oosterzee and James McCullough for discussion. This research was supported by HUM2004-01504/FILO (MEC & FEDER).

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Language Variation and Change , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 15 - 34
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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