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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 444 367 FL 026 359 AUTHOR Moisset, Christine, Ed.; Lipson, Mimi, Ed. TITLE Selected Papers from NWAVE(E) 27 (Athens, Georgia, October 1-4, 1998). University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 2. INSTITUTION Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Penn Linguistics Club. ISSN ISSN-1524-9549 PUB DATE 1999-00-00 NOTE 164p.; Papers in this volume were presented at the Annual New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference. AVAILABLE FROM PWPL, 619 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 ($15). PUB TYPE Collected Works Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Child Language; Creoles; Dialect Studies; Ethnic Groups; Foreign Countries; French; French Canadians; Korean; Language Minorities; *Language Research; *Linguistics; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Sociolinguistics; *Uncommonly Taught Languages IDENTIFIERS Canada; Korea; South Africa ABSTRACT This issue includes the following articles: "Vowel Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard: .A Preliminary Investigation" (Julie Auger, Jeffrey Steele); "Lexical Borrowings from French in Written Quebec English: Perspectives on Motivation" (Pamela Grant-Russell and Celine Beaudet); "Variable Article Use in Korean Learners of English" (Hikyoung Lee); "The Loss of Auxiliary Selection in English" (Mimi Lipson); "Syntactic Change in Progress: Semi-Auxiliary Busy in South African English" (Rajend Mesthrie); "The Emergence of Creole Subject-Verb Agreement" (Miriam Meyerhoff); "Double Subject Marking in L2 Montreal French" (Naomi Nagy, Helene Blondeau); "Testing the Creole Continuum" (Peter Patrick); "Going Younger To Do Difference: The Role of Children in Language Change" (Julie Roberts); and "Situated Ethnicities: Constructing and Reconstructing Identity in the Sociolinguistic Interview" (Natalie Schilling-Estes). 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TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Points of view or opinions stated in this INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) document do not necessarily represent 1 official OERI position or policy. 0 Volume 6.2 (1999): Selected Papers from NWAV(E) 27 4 BEST COPY AVAILABLE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA WORKING PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS Volume 6.2 (1999) Selected Papers from NWAV(E) 27 issue editors Christine Moisset, Mimi Lipson series editors JIM ALEXANDER ALEXIS DIMITRIADIS NA-RAE HAN ELSI KAISER MICHELLE MINNICK FOX CHRISTINE MOISSET ALEXANDER WILLIAMS 3 About the PWPL series The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) isan occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate stu- dent organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Penn- sylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work,or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Depart- ment, as well as volumes of papers from the NWAVE conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium. The current PWPL series editors are Jim Alexander, Alexis Dimitriadis, Na- Rae Han, ElsiKaiser, Michelle Minnick Fox, Christine Moisset, and Alexander Williams. The Editors Publication in the University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) does not preclude submission of papers elsewhere; copyright is retained by the author(s) of individual papers. Comments on the papers should be sent directly to the authors, at the address provided at the end of each paper. The PWPL editors can be contacted at the following addresses: U. 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ISSN: 1524-9549 Table of Contents About the PWPL ii Editors' statement Vowel Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard: A Preliminary Investigation 1 Julie Auger and Jeffrey Steele Lexical Borrowings from French in Written Quebec English: Perspectives on Motivation 17 Pamela Grant-Russell and Celine Beaudet Variable Article Use in Korean Learners of English 35 Hikyoung Lee The Loss of Auxiliary Selection in English 49 Mimi Lipson Syntactic Change in Progress: Semi-auxiliary busy in South African English 63 Rajend Mesthrie The Emergence of Creole Subject-Verb Agreement 77 Miriam Meyerhoff Double Subject Marking in L2 Montreal French 93 Naomi Nagy and Helene Blondeau Testing the Creole Continuum 109 Peter Patrick Going Younger to Do Difference: The Role of Children in Language Change 121 Julie Roberts Situated Ethnicities: Constructing and Reconstructing Identity in the Sociolinguistic Interview 137 Natalie Schilling-Estes Contents of Volume 6 153 iii From the editors The twenty-seventh annual meeting of NWAV(E) (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) convened at the University of Georgia at Athens on October 1-4, 1998. NWAV(E) is an important forum for researchers working in the areas of sociolinguistics, dialectology, language variation, and change in general. This volume contains a selection of papers presented at NWAV(E) 27. The papers in this volume reflect the diversity of language-related topics upon which variationist methods have been brought to bear. The authors address such social dimensions of variation as conversational style and ethnic identity (Schilling-Estes), age cohorts (Roberts), speech communities (Patrick), language contact and borrowing (Grant-Russell & Beaudet). Roberts, Lee, and Nagy & Blondeau explore the status of variable phenomena in first and second language acquisition. Explicitly linguistic subjects are also approached from a variationist perspective, including grammatical description in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics (Auger & Steele; Lipson; Mesthrie; Meyerhoff), and discussions of the formal linguistic underpinnings of regional dialect variants (Mesthrie), diachronic language states (Auger & Steele, Lipson), and learning stages (Lee). As the range of subjects suggests, variationist linguistics is not so much a discrete area of inquiry as a perspective usefully applied to many types of language-related research. This approach is a hallmark of the linguistics program at Penn, and for this reason the editors are grateful for the opportunity to uphold the emerging tradition of publishing NWAV(E) proceedings as a volume of the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. On behalf of the Working Papers committee, we would like to thank the eleven authors, the conference organizers and participants, and especially the departments in the linguistics program at the University of Georgia. Christine Moisset and Mimi Lipson Issue editors Vowel Epenthesis in Vimeu Picard: A Preliminary Investigation' Julie Auger and Jeffrey Steele 1 Introduction One of the most striking phonological features of Picard, a Gallo-Romance language spoken in Northern France, is the apparent inversion of an unstressed vowel with the consonant that precedes it. This phenomenon is illustrated in (1) with several French words and phrases and their Picard equivalents in the Vimeu variety': French Vimeu Picard grenouille guernouille 'frog' comme des harengsconme edz herins 'like herrings' Je n'ai pas le tempsEj n'ai point l'temps'I don't have time' While this phenomenon is attested in many varieties of colloquial French (e.g., Picard 1991 for Quebecois, Poirier 1928 for Acadian, Lyche 1995 for Cajun, and Morin 1987 for Parisian) as well as in other Gallo-Romance dialects (e.g., Francard 1981 for Walloon and Spence 1990 for Norman), it is, to our knowledge, nowhere as common or regular as in Picard. Indeed, while metath- esis is restricted to a few segments in other Gallo-Romance varieties, in Picard, The research for this paper was supported in part by an FCAR grant no. NC- 1648, a research grant from the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, and a Summer Faculty Fellowship from Indiana University to the first author. We would like to thank the following people for answering our numerous questions on epenthesis and syllable structure:Stuart Davis, Ken de Jong, Dan Dinnsen, Heather Goad, Glyne Piggott, and Yvan Rose. We would also like to thank Jean-Pierre Calais and Jean-Luc Vigneux for their help with the Picard data. Finally, we thank Rea Janezich, Angela Markley, and Kelly Sax for their help in gathering data and their efforts in finding relevant examples for testing our hypotheses. As usual, none of these people should be held responsible for any shortcomings in this paper. 2 Vimeu is located in the westernmost area of the Somme department; it is delimited by the Somme river to the north, the Bresle river (and Normandy) to the south, the English Channel to the west, and departmental road 901 to the east. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 6.2, 1999