Sandra Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3777837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Phonetic change in Newfoundland English
Newfoundland English has long been considered autonomous within the North American context. Sociolinguistic studies conducted over the past three decades, however, typically suggest cross‐generational change in phonetic feature use, motivated by greater alignment with mainland Canadian English norms. The present study uses data spanning the past thirty years to investigate some half‐dozen apparent‐time changes in Newfoundland English. It analyses…
On the autonomy and homogeneity of Canadian English
This introduction to the symposium approaches the themes of autonomy and homogeneity in Canadian English from a historical perspective. We trace the debates on these topics back to the late 19th century and relate them to changing public attitudes toward Canadian linguistic autonomy over time. We review the scholarly evidence on autonomy and homogeneity and outline the evolving interpretations of these themes from earlier research to that of the …
Nooz or nyooz: The Complex Construction of Canadian Identity
We examine the diffusion of a phonological feature, namely the deletion of palatal glides in words such as news, tune, duke , and student . Within Canada, the conservative glided and innovative glideless pronunciations are no longer viewed as carrying, respectively, British versus American affiliation. One observes a steep generational decline in glide usage, with older, and especially upper-middle-class, females, resisting this change. This cont…
Academic Career Paths in Linguistics: A Report on the CLA Questionnaire
This paper presents the results of a survey conducted by the CLA in 1996-1997. Mail-in questionnaires were completed by 110 Canadian linguists from all regions of the country, 71 of whom (65%) were female, and 39 (35%) male. Following an overview of the literature dealing with women in academia in general and linguistics in particular, a summary of the background and status of the respondents is given. The results are presented thematically, expl…
Contesting meaning: Newfie and the politics of ethnic labelling
The ethnic label Newfie is a site of ideological dispute: for some, it is simply an informal term for residents and expatriates of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, for others it may function as an in-group term of solidarity which takes on negative connotations when used by non-Newfoundlanders, and for still others it is the equivalent of a racial slur. In this study we first trace the history of the term, a fairly recent innovation. We the…
The Encoding of Information Source in Algonquian: Evidentials in Cree/Montagnais/Naskapi
On establishing historical relationships between new and old world varieties: Habitual aspect and Newfoundland Vernacular English
Canadian English
English Verbal -S Revisited: The Evidence from Newfoundland
L'A. examine l'accord du temps present non standard dans le dialecte vernaculaire de Newfoundland, une ile situee a l'extreme est du Canada. Il tente de demontrer que les schemas d'accord du temps present en anglais vernaculaire de Newfoundland aide a clarifier le marquage du temps present dans les varietes non standard historiques de l'anglais, particulierement celles d'origine sud britanniques. Parce que de telles varietes peuvent avoir joue un…
The third dialect of English: Some Canadian evidence
Whereas Labov (1991) made a case for the existence of three major dialects of English, this article offers Canadian evience that runs counter to the idea of a relatively homogeneous North American third dialect area in which vowel systems remain fairly stable. It shows that the lax vowels of Canadian English are undergoing a substantial shift, the pivot for which is suggested to be vowel merger in the Cot/Caught sets. This shift is to some degree…
Les langues autochtones du Québec
Language Diversity and Language Contact
Variation in an English Dialect. A Sociolinguistic Study
North-West River (Sheshatshit) Montagnais: A grammatical sketch
MAY, CAN and the expression of permission
Any system is necessarily both one , by virtue of its governing principle, and several internally, by virtue of the positions it contains. No system can contain just one element. By nature and by definition a system is binary: it must contain at least two elements to be a system at all. (Translated from Guillaume 1973:175) In any linguistic system—and this is the basic condition for systematizing—there is ... a before and an after within which an…
The third dialect of English: Some Canadian evidence
Whereas Labov (1991) made a case for the existence of three major dialects of English, this article offers Canadian evience that runs counter to the idea of a relatively homogeneous North American third dialect area in which vowel systems remain fairly stable. It shows that the lax vowels of Canadian English are undergoing a substantial shift, the pivot for which is suggested to be vowel merger in the Cot/Caught sets. This shift is to some degree…
Contesting meaning: Newfie and the politics of ethnic labelling
The ethnic label Newfie is a site of ideological dispute: for some, it is simply an informal term for residents and expatriates of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, for others it may function as an in-group term of solidarity which takes on negative connotations when used by non-Newfoundlanders, and for still others it is the equivalent of a racial slur. In this study we first trace the history of the term, a fairly recent innovation. We the…
The Encoding of Information Source in Algonquian: Evidentials in Cree/Montagnais/Naskapi
English Verbal -S Revisited: The Evidence from Newfoundland
L'A. examine l'accord du temps present non standard dans le dialecte vernaculaire de Newfoundland, une ile situee a l'extreme est du Canada. Il tente de demontrer que les schemas d'accord du temps present en anglais vernaculaire de Newfoundland aide a clarifier le marquage du temps present dans les varietes non standard historiques de l'anglais, particulierement celles d'origine sud britanniques. Parce que de telles varietes peuvent avoir joue un…
Phonetic change in Newfoundland English
Newfoundland English has long been considered autonomous within the North American context. Sociolinguistic studies conducted over the past three decades, however, typically suggest cross‐generational change in phonetic feature use, motivated by greater alignment with mainland Canadian English norms. The present study uses data spanning the past thirty years to investigate some half‐dozen apparent‐time changes in Newfoundland English. It analyses…
MAY, CAN and the expression of permission
Any system is necessarily both one , by virtue of its governing principle, and several internally, by virtue of the positions it contains. No system can contain just one element. By nature and by definition a system is binary: it must contain at least two elements to be a system at all. (Translated from Guillaume 1973:175) In any linguistic system—and this is the basic condition for systematizing—there is ... a before and an after within which an…
North-West River (Sheshatshit) Montagnais: A grammatical sketch
Language Diversity and Language Contact
Variation in an English Dialect. A Sociolinguistic Study
Les langues autochtones du Québec
The third dialect of English: Some Canadian evidence
Whereas Labov (1991) made a case for the existence of three major dialects of English, this article offers Canadian evience that runs counter to the idea of a relatively homogeneous North American third dialect area in which vowel systems remain fairly stable. It shows that the lax vowels of Canadian English are undergoing a substantial shift, the pivot for which is suggested to be vowel merger in the Cot/Caught sets. This shift is to some degree…
On establishing historical relationships between new and old world varieties: Habitual aspect and Newfoundland Vernacular English
Canadian English
English Verbal -S Revisited: The Evidence from Newfoundland
L'A. examine l'accord du temps present non standard dans le dialecte vernaculaire de Newfoundland, une ile situee a l'extreme est du Canada. Il tente de demontrer que les schemas d'accord du temps present en anglais vernaculaire de Newfoundland aide a clarifier le marquage du temps present dans les varietes non standard historiques de l'anglais, particulierement celles d'origine sud britanniques. Parce que de telles varietes peuvent avoir joue un…
The Encoding of Information Source in Algonquian: Evidentials in Cree/Montagnais/Naskapi
Contesting meaning: Newfie and the politics of ethnic labelling
The ethnic label Newfie is a site of ideological dispute: for some, it is simply an informal term for residents and expatriates of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, for others it may function as an in-group term of solidarity which takes on negative connotations when used by non-Newfoundlanders, and for still others it is the equivalent of a racial slur. In this study we first trace the history of the term, a fairly recent innovation. We the…
Academic Career Paths in Linguistics: A Report on the CLA Questionnaire
This paper presents the results of a survey conducted by the CLA in 1996-1997. Mail-in questionnaires were completed by 110 Canadian linguists from all regions of the country, 71 of whom (65%) were female, and 39 (35%) male. Following an overview of the literature dealing with women in academia in general and linguistics in particular, a summary of the background and status of the respondents is given. The results are presented thematically, expl…
Nooz or nyooz: The Complex Construction of Canadian Identity
We examine the diffusion of a phonological feature, namely the deletion of palatal glides in words such as news, tune, duke , and student . Within Canada, the conservative glided and innovative glideless pronunciations are no longer viewed as carrying, respectively, British versus American affiliation. One observes a steep generational decline in glide usage, with older, and especially upper-middle-class, females, resisting this change. This cont…
Phonetic change in Newfoundland English
Newfoundland English has long been considered autonomous within the North American context. Sociolinguistic studies conducted over the past three decades, however, typically suggest cross‐generational change in phonetic feature use, motivated by greater alignment with mainland Canadian English norms. The present study uses data spanning the past thirty years to investigate some half‐dozen apparent‐time changes in Newfoundland English. It analyses…
On the autonomy and homogeneity of Canadian English
This introduction to the symposium approaches the themes of autonomy and homogeneity in Canadian English from a historical perspective. We trace the debates on these topics back to the late 19th century and relate them to changing public attitudes toward Canadian linguistic autonomy over time. We review the scholarly evidence on autonomy and homogeneity and outline the evolving interpretations of these themes from earlier research to that of the …
Linguistics (12 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)