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Twentieth-century varieties reflecting mediaeval settlement in Normandy: Combining modern and historical dialectology

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Damien Hall

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Abstract

The article demonstrates how the methods of modern dialectology can be used together with established dialectological and toponymic findings to inform our understanding of present-day variation. The linguistic data used are from the Atlas Linguistique et Ethnographique Normand, whose data were collected in the 1970s, and in which many of the words given to researchers are probably Norman as opposed to French. The comparison of these data with the known settlement patterns of Vikings in Normandy in the ninth to eleventh centuries shows clearly that the Vikings' mediaeval settlement patterns are reflected in isoglosses which can be drawn based on the Atlas' twentieth-century data, and the statistics of the modern methods show how strong the correlation is.

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Author(s): Hall DJ

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics

Year: 2013

Volume: 43

Issue: 2

Pages: 176-199

Print publication date: 27/02/2013

Date deposited: 21/09/2012

ISSN (print): 0374-0463

ISSN (electronic): 1949-0763

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2012.746404

DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2012.746404

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