| Frenchville French | |
|---|---|
| Français de Frenchville | |
| Native to | Frenchville, Pennsylvania |
Native speakers | 2 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Frenchville French is a moribund French dialect spoken in Frenchville, Pennsylvania, United States. Frenchville is a small community of Covington Township in Clearfield County. The language was the subject of fieldwork by Barbara Bullock (linguist), the co-author of a range of journal articles relating to phonological patterns observed in French dialects.[1][2][3][4][5]
- ^ a b Bullock, Barbara (2009). "Prosody in contact in French: A case study from a heritage variety in the USA". International Journal of Bilingualism. 13 (2): 165–194. doi:10.1177/1367006909339817. S2CID 144164852.
- ^ Bullock, B. E., & Gerfen, C. (2004). Frenchville French: A case study in phonological attrition. International Journal of Bilingualism, 8(3), 303–320.
- ^ Bullock, B. E., & Gerfen, C. (2005). The preservation of schwa in the converging phonological system of Frenchville (PA) French. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 8(02), 117–130.
- ^ Bullock, B. E., Dalola, A., & Gerfen, C. (2006). Mapping the patterns of maintenance versus merger in bilingual phonology: The preservation of [a] vs.[A] in Frenchville French. In Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil (ed.), New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Phonetics, Phonology and Dialectology Vol. 2 : Selected Papers from the 35th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Austin, Texas, February 2005.
- ^ Bullock, B. E., & Gerfen, C. (2004). Phonological convergence in a contracting language variety. Bilingualism, 7(2), 95–104.