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Canada

The first Europeans to reach Canada were

descendants of Norse seafarers who had settled in

Iceland and in Greenland during the ninth and 10thcenturies.

In the mid-19th century, Canada was granted the

status of a Dominion of the British Empire, with an

autonomous government but with the British monarch

as head of state. From 1968 to 1984


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Language

Canada is officially bilingual (English and French).

The use of the two languages reflects.

However, while the federal government must operate

in both languages as much as is practical, use of each

language outside government varies widely across the

country.


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accent

Canada have many different English accent,according to the countries, or the part of the place, for

example the south, the north or middle center of each

country. It depend of the intonation we do in some of

this place.

In Canadian is a mix of French and English

language are the mother language, but English is themost important language in Canadian and the second

language is French for the country.


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Phonological Markers

Phonological markers are generally found in spokenregisters.

whether they perceive the situation to be rather formal

or informal. That is, we can expect phonological

variation in different speech situations.

In three experiments using artificial languages, we

manipulated properties of phonological markers andexamined what conditions most easily allow adults to

generalize subclass knowledge.


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Influence of Irish Phonology

Intonation, lilt of older Irish speakers

Archaic vowel pronunciations

/ow/ pronounced higher and further back, and is

devoid of any up glide (the w) and sounds like /u/ -[o>]

strongly fronted /a/ before /r/ at the end of a wordor followed by another consonant - [a


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Irish Consonants in OV Speech

Palatalization

/r/ is high and front, making it like [i]

/l/ after vowels and in final position are absent

/k/ and /g/, esp. before low front vowel [] cart> kyart;guard>gyard

Lenition

slow release of final voiceless stops like /t/ hatsounds like hats

/t/ and /d/ before /r/ become interdental affricates

dry> dhry


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Irish Syntax and Morphology

the Ottawa, the Satan, the Scotch Corners, the Boyd Settlement,the Prior

conjoined gerundial construction

used as time adverbial

Thewasp would come down and sting us there where wewere working...and us not touching him (when we werenteven touching him)

prepositions

anunder, withouten, again, at, for, on for to

wejust seeded the oats therefor to cover the alfalfa

deletion of subject relative pronouns

itwas generally the younger kids carried the rake


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examples

1.-If the preceding sound is a sibilant consonant (oneof /s/, /z/, //, //, /t/, or/d/), the plural marker takesthe form /z/. Examples:

mass/ms/, pluralmasses/msz/fez/fz/, pluralfezzes/fzz/

mesh/m/, pluralmeshes/mz/

mirage/mr/, pluralmirages/mrz/

church/trt/, pluralchurches/trtz/

bridge/brd/, pluralbridges/brdz/


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The differences between Canadian accents-- from Halifax, Nova

Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia -- are nowhere near as great

as the regional accents that one hears in Great Britain.

But speaking exclusively of Canada, there are -- funny little things

come out. For example, in Nova Scotia: a true Nova Scotian, in

saying the word A-F-T-E-R, will always insert an R. It will always

come out /a:rftr/. Um ... and you can alwaysspot a true Nova

Scotian, because he drops that extra R in.

There's one point I should make, and ... er ... er ... and it's an obvious

one, I suppose, and that is: when you get into French Canada, when

you get the French Canadians speaking English, naturally ... er ... a

great many of them have a pronounced French accent.


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