Spread of on-going changes in an immigrant language

Doğruöz, A. Seza; Gries, Stefan Th.

doi:10.1075/rcl.10.2.07sez

Article published In: Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use
Edited by Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif
[Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10:2] 2012
► pp. 401–426

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Spread of on-going changes in an immigrant language

A. Seza Doğruöz

Stefan Th. Gries

Published online: 18 December 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.10.2.07sez

Turkish spoken in the Netherlands (NL-Turkish) sounds different in comparison to Turkish spoken in Turkey (TR-Turkish). Analyses of NL-Turkish spoken corpus reveal that NL-Turkish is changing through literally translated Dutch constructions. Combining the cognitive linguistics framework with methods of sociolinguistic analysis, this study investigates to what extent these attested changes are spread within the NL-Turkish speech community. Results of our experimental study show that NL-Turkish speakers recognize the changing constructions and tolerate them more than TR-Turkish speakers (control group). In addition, both NL-Turkish and TR-Turkish speakers exhibit a learning process for the changing constructions during the course of the experiment. However, we did not necessarily find a positive correlation between the frequency of changing constructions and their acceptance rate. We predict that sociolinguistic factors (e.g. group dynamics and continuous contact with TR-Turkish) influence the spread of on-going changes in NL-Turkish at the current stage of contact.

Keywords: spread of change, language contact and change, constructions, usage-based approaches, frequency

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