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A comparison of phonetically-ordered phonological variables in two major Canadian urban surveys1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Gaelan Dodds de Wolf
Gaelan Dodds de Wolf
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(University of British Columbia)
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Sociolinguistic dialect research is based on the assumption that language is a form of social behaviour varying as much with social factors as with geography, which of course, does not prevent a geographical comparison in the current context. The present study deals with preliminary observations which result from testing and comparing the effect of age, sex and socio-economic status on linguistic variables in two recent, major urban sociolinguistic surveys in Canada: that of Ottawa, with 100 informants (Woods 1979), and SVEN, the Survey of Vancouver English with 240 informants (Gregg 1981).

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 1983 , pp. 90 - 96
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1983

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