Intonation, identity and contact‐induced change among Polish‐speaking migrants in the U.K.

Kozminska, Kinga

doi:10.1111/josl.12318

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“…Most recently, this younger group collaborated to issue a Yami ID card not only to strengthen their cultural representation, 20 but also to promote public recognition and support of the Yami culture. 21 Given the declining use and changing grammar of present-day Yami, it seems that while younger speakers now no longer use the language to fulfill their communicative needs, they may use it as a socio-indexical resource to voice their ethnocultural affiliation ( Irvine & Gal, 2000 ; Kozminska, 2019 ).…”

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Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community

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Gooden

2022

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This study investigates socioprosodic variation in Yami, a moribund indigenous language under intense contact with Mandarin in Taiwan: 32 bilingual (Yami-dominant, balanced, Mandarin-dominant) and 5 Yami-monolingual participants were recruited. We used an Interactive Card Game to elicit semi-spontaneous speech for neutral questions (NQ), default declarative questions (DQ1), and declarative questions with lighter incredulity (DQ2). Results reveal that (1) yes/no question intonation in Yami is highly variable; (2) on a broad community level, the DQ1–DQ2 distinction is absent from Yami; and (3) there is prosodic hybridization and innovation in bilingual speech. In particular, we see significant differences in DQ1 and NQ productions, with DQ1s having a rising nuclear configuration, higher pitch level, and wider pitch span, while NQs are realized with a mid-level pattern, lower pitch level, and narrower pitch span. DQ2 utterances exhibited highly varied nuclear configuration patterns with no significant differences in either pitch level or pitch span in DQ1–DQ2 comparisons. Yet, there is evidence that a hybridized DQ2 has begun to be integrated into Yami among younger bilinguals, suggesting that present-day Yami is in flux and is undergoing restructuring. These intonational variations are not easily attributable to a weakened Yami identity. Rather, younger bilinguals, who are leading the change, are highly dedicated to cultural practices and show strong rootedness in their Indigenous identity. Seemingly, while these less fluent speakers no longer use Yami to fulfill their everyday communicative needs, they are leaning more on its socio-indexical functions to reflect their ethnocultural identity.

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Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community

Lai

Gooden

2022

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“…Interactional prosody studies (Couper‐Kuhlen and Selting 1996) were followed to conduct a sequential analysis of “local moves and countermoves” (Gumperz and Berentz 1993, 95), where an intonational phrase (IP) was defined as “a stretch of speech that falls under a single intonational contour or envelope and ends in an intonational boundary marker” (Gumperz and Berenz 1993, 99). For detailed analyses of individual features, refer to Kozminska (2019, forthcoming).…”

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“…The studied features included: aspirated stops in onsets of nuclei of intonational phrases (measured as Voice Onset Time (VOT)), fallingrising intonation in declarative phrases as a floor control mechanism, as well as palatalized fricatives, vowel lengthening in nuclei of IPs, and occasional dark l. Interactional prosody studies (Couper-Kuhlen and Selting 1996) were followed to conduct a sequential analysis of "local moves and countermoves" (Gumperz and Berentz 1993, 95), where an intonational phrase (IP) was defined as "a stretch of speech that falls under a single intonational contour or envelope and ends in an intonational boundary marker" (Gumperz and Berenz 1993, 99). For detailed analyses of individual features, refer to Kozminska (2019, forthcoming).…”

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Sounding Out Difference: Polycentricity of Ideological Orientations among Polish‐Speaking Migrants in Transnational Timespace

Kozminska

2020

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article reports emerging polycentric ideological orientations among UK‐educated middle‐class Polish‐speaking young adult migrants living and working in South‐East England in 2013–2014. The analysis of phonetic‐semiotic details in stance‐taking acts in chronotopic representations of experience reveals a continuum of sociolinguistic authority in which despite a shared sociocultural background, sociolinguistic possibilities are differently conceptualized and enacted. A close examination of the ways in which the participants exploit differences in clusters of morphonological detail demonstrates that English‐like realizations in Polish, while motivated by particular linguistic context and discursive function, co‐occur mainly in the speech of female “cosmopolitans” to signal orientation toward relevant social images and create locally valid and recognizable value effects. The relational, collective, and embodied soundings of sameness and difference depend on scalarity and complex interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender in transnational timespace. The findings have implications for studies of variation and migrant discourse.

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“…Following Kozminska (2019) we present descriptive statistics of the different realizations for pitch accents and contours and discuss these results. We also conducted mixed effects logistic regression modelling to test differences between cities, genders, and sentence types using the lme4 package in R ( Bates et al, 2015 ).…”

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Intonational Variation in the North-West of England: The Origins of a Rising Contour in Liverpool

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This paper investigates intonation in the urban dialect of Liverpool, Scouse. Scouse is reported to be part of a group of dialects in the north of the UK where rising contours in declaratives are a traditional aspect of the dialect. This intonation is typologically unusual and has not been the subject of detailed previous research. Here, we present such an analysis in comparison with Manchester, a city less than 40 miles from Liverpool but with a noticeably different prosody. Our analysis confirms reports that rising contours are the most common realization for declaratives in Liverpool, specifically a low rise where final high pitch is not reached until the end of the phrase. Secondly, we consider the origin of declarative rises in Scouse with reference to the literature on new dialect formation. Our demographic analysis and review of previous work on relevant dialects suggests that declarative rises were not the majority variant when Scouse was formed but may have been adopted for facilitating communication in a diverse new community. We highlight this contribution of intonational data to research on phonological aspects of new dialect formation, which have largely considered segmental phonology or timing previously.

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Intonation, identity and contact‐induced change among Polish‐speaking migrants in the U.K.

Cited by 8 publications

References 36 publications

Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community

Language Contact, Language Ecology, and Intonational Variation in the Yami Community

Sounding Out Difference: Polycentricity of Ideological Orientations among Polish‐Speaking Migrants in Transnational Timespace

Intonational Variation in the North-West of England: The Origins of a Rising Contour in Liverpool

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