Marie-France Duhamel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marie-France Duhamel is involved.
Articles
2022 The role of older men in a phonological change: (ɣ) in Raga, Vanuatu What’s so standard about standards? Variationist principles and debates, Kasstan, Jonathan R. (ed.), pp. 206–239 | Article
Contrary to classic predictions associated with the gender pattern in variationism, the results of this study on the effect of age and gender on a phonological innovation suggests that older speakers drive innovation in this small Oceanic speech community of Vanuatu. Young and old men are prone… read more
2020 Borrowing from Bislama into Raga, Vanuatu: Borrowing frequency, adaptation strategies and semantic considerations Variation in the Pacific: Part I, Kashima, Eri and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 160–195 | Article
This paper reports on variation among speakers of Raga, an Oceanic language of Pentecost island, Vanuatu, in their use of borrowings from Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu, an English-lexifier contact language. The study measures the frequency of borrowings from Bislama in the speech of… read more