Naomi Nagy

TL;DR: The use of discourse markers by 17 speakers of Anglophone Montreal French (AMF) showed great variation in individual repertoires and frequency of use as discussed by the authors, indicating that a higher frequency of discourse marker use is the hallmark of the fluent speaker.

TL;DR: This article examined a pattern of end-of-word deletion in Faetar, a Francoprovencal dialect spoken in southern Italy, considering synchronic variants like [brok] ˜[brokl] ǫ] Ã Ã ] Ã, and showed that the pattern of distribution of tokens is closely correlated with the number of rankings that produce each output form.

TL;DR: In this article, the perceptual aspect of quantitative sociolinguistic variation in order to derive properties of a socinguistic monitor integrated into linguistic processing in real time was investigated. But the results were limited to the case of broadcast news from the same speaker.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the extent to which the first generation of Montreal Anglophones acquired the variable grammar of their Francophone peers and how that was related to the type of French instruction received and to the types of exposure to French.

TL;DR: In this article, a multivariate comparison of conversational speech patterns from three generations of heritage language speakers confirm that, for two linguistic variables, no consistent pattern of either attrition or incomplete acquisition emerges, and lack of correlation with measures of language contact, use and attitude makes it difficult to interpret these patterns of variation as evidence of either incomplete acquisition or attrition.