Dialect loss in the Russian North: Modeling change across variables
Abstract We analyze the dynamics of dialect loss in a cluster of villages in rural northern Russia based on a corpus of transcribed interviews, the Ustja River Basin Corpus. Eleven phonological and morphological variables are analyzed across 33 speakers born between 1922 and 1996 in a series of logi...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0954394519000243 2024-03-03T08:48:30+00:00 Dialect loss in the Russian North: Modeling change across variables Daniel, Michael von Waldenfels, Ruprecht Ter-Avanesova, Aleksandra Kazakova, Polina Schurov, Ilya Gerasimenko, Ekaterina Ignatenko, Daria Makhlina, Ekaterina Tsfasman, Maria Verhees, Samira Vinyar, Aleksei Zhigulaskaja, Vasilisa Ovsjannikova, Maria Say, Sergey Dobrushina, Nina 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394519000243 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954394519000243 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Language Variation and Change volume 31, issue 3, page 353-376 ISSN 0954-3945 1469-8021 Linguistics and Language Education Language and Linguistics journal-article 2019 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954394519000243 2024-02-08T08:41:18Z Abstract We analyze the dynamics of dialect loss in a cluster of villages in rural northern Russia based on a corpus of transcribed interviews, the Ustja River Basin Corpus. Eleven phonological and morphological variables are analyzed across 33 speakers born between 1922 and 1996 in a series of logistic regression models. We propose three characteristics for a comparison of the rate of loss of different variables: initial level, steepness, and turning point. We show that the dynamics of loss differs significantly across variables and discuss possible reasons for such differences, including perceptual salience, initial variation in the dialect, and convergence with regionally or socially defined varieties of Russian. In conclusion, we discuss the pros and cons of logistic regression as an approach to quantitative modeling of dialect loss. Our paper contributes to the study and documentation of Russian dialects, most of which are on the verge of extinction. Article in Journal/Newspaper Russian North Cambridge University Press Language Variation and Change 31 3 353 376 |
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Abstract We analyze the dynamics of dialect loss in a cluster of villages in rural northern Russia based on a corpus of transcribed interviews, the Ustja River Basin Corpus. Eleven phonological and morphological variables are analyzed across 33 speakers born between 1922 and 1996 in a series of logistic regression models. We propose three characteristics for a comparison of the rate of loss of different variables: initial level, steepness, and turning point. We show that the dynamics of loss differs significantly across variables and discuss possible reasons for such differences, including perceptual salience, initial variation in the dialect, and convergence with regionally or socially defined varieties of Russian. In conclusion, we discuss the pros and cons of logistic regression as an approach to quantitative modeling of dialect loss. Our paper contributes to the study and documentation of Russian dialects, most of which are on the verge of extinction. |
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Daniel, Michael von Waldenfels, Ruprecht Ter-Avanesova, Aleksandra Kazakova, Polina Schurov, Ilya Gerasimenko, Ekaterina Ignatenko, Daria Makhlina, Ekaterina Tsfasman, Maria Verhees, Samira Vinyar, Aleksei Zhigulaskaja, Vasilisa Ovsjannikova, Maria Say, Sergey Dobrushina, Nina |
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Daniel, Michael von Waldenfels, Ruprecht Ter-Avanesova, Aleksandra Kazakova, Polina Schurov, Ilya Gerasimenko, Ekaterina Ignatenko, Daria Makhlina, Ekaterina Tsfasman, Maria Verhees, Samira Vinyar, Aleksei Zhigulaskaja, Vasilisa Ovsjannikova, Maria Say, Sergey Dobrushina, Nina |
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Dialect loss in the Russian North: Modeling change across variables |
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Dialect loss in the Russian North: Modeling change across variables |
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Dialect loss in the Russian North: Modeling change across variables |
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