Marie‐france Duhamel
Biographic Data
| ID | 937498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie‐france Duhamel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie‐france |
| FAMILY NAME | Duhamel |
| SIGNATURE | DUHAMEL M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7774-8285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The role of older men in a phonological change
Contrary to classic predictions associated with the gender pattern in variationism, the results of this study on the effect of age and gender on a phonological innovation suggests that older speakers drive innovation in this small Oceanic speech community of Vanuatu. Young and old men are prone to deleting the phonemic consonant, while women and middle-aged men tend to retain it. The v-shaped distribution of the variant requires considering the i…
The Concept of Taboo in Raga, Vanuatu
This article discusses the two terms that convey the concept of taboo in Raga, the language of north‐central Vanuatu originally spoken in north Pentecost, and provides linguistic evidence expanding on the information published previously by the anthropologists Masanori Yoshioka and John Patrick Taylor. Based on the corpus collected in north Pentecost in the period 2015–2017, and on older ethnographic and religious written material, a semantic map…
Borrowing from Bislama into Raga, Vanuatu
This paper reports on variation among speakers of Raga, an Oceanic language of Pentecost island, Vanuatu, in their use of borrowings from Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu, an English-lexifier contact language. The study measures the frequency of borrowings from Bislama in the speech of 50 speakers, surveys speakers’ strategies in assimilating loanwords into Raga and quantifies speakers’ rate of lexical replacement and insertion. This cor…
An end of egalitarianism? Social evaluations of language difference in New Zealand
New Zealand has traditionally prided itself on an ethos of casual egalitarianism – a value system with positive and negative implications. The well-known linguistic homogeneity of the islands and general lack of regional dialect differences (Trudgill, Peter. 2004. New-dialect formation: The inevitability of colonial Englishes . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) is consistent with this ethos but also clearly reflects the cultural homogeneity …
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An end of egalitarianism? Social evaluations of language difference in New Zealand
New Zealand has traditionally prided itself on an ethos of casual egalitarianism – a value system with positive and negative implications. The well-known linguistic homogeneity of the islands and general lack of regional dialect differences (Trudgill, Peter. 2004. New-dialect formation: The inevitability of colonial Englishes . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) is consistent with this ethos but also clearly reflects the cultural homogeneity …
Borrowing from Bislama into Raga, Vanuatu
This paper reports on variation among speakers of Raga, an Oceanic language of Pentecost island, Vanuatu, in their use of borrowings from Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu, an English-lexifier contact language. The study measures the frequency of borrowings from Bislama in the speech of 50 speakers, surveys speakers’ strategies in assimilating loanwords into Raga and quantifies speakers’ rate of lexical replacement and insertion. This cor…
The Concept of Taboo in Raga, Vanuatu
This article discusses the two terms that convey the concept of taboo in Raga, the language of north‐central Vanuatu originally spoken in north Pentecost, and provides linguistic evidence expanding on the information published previously by the anthropologists Masanori Yoshioka and John Patrick Taylor. Based on the corpus collected in north Pentecost in the period 2015–2017, and on older ethnographic and religious written material, a semantic map…
The role of older men in a phonological change
Contrary to classic predictions associated with the gender pattern in variationism, the results of this study on the effect of age and gender on a phonological innovation suggests that older speakers drive innovation in this small Oceanic speech community of Vanuatu. Young and old men are prone to deleting the phonemic consonant, while women and middle-aged men tend to retain it. The v-shaped distribution of the variant requires considering the i…
Linguistics (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Audiology (1 work) · Casual (1 work)