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Old wine into new wineskins. A variationist investigation into patterns of voicing in plosives in the Atlas Linguistique de la France
Author(s) -
Temple Rosalind A. M.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/1467-968x.00068
Subject(s) - obstruent , voice , atlas (anatomy) , linguistics , history , philosophy , geology , paleontology
In the following paper, data taken from the Atlas linguistique de la France (Gillie´ron and Edmont 1902–10) are subjected to quantitative analysis to investigate how the variable patterns of voicing in obstruents to be found therein is conditioned. The analyses show how the data (which are here restricted to underlyingly voiced stop consonants) are consistent to a remarkable degree with hypotheses formulated on the basis of the findings of modern experimental phonetic and sociolinguistic studies, which is suggestive not only for the wider study in question, but also in (re‐)considering the potential of the Atlas as a valuable data source for comparisons to be made between the French spoken throughout France at the beginning and end of the twentieth century.