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Religious Networks As A Sociolinguistic Factor: The Case Of Cardston, Benjamin Joseph Chatterton
Religious Networks As A Sociolinguistic Factor: The Case Of Cardston, Benjamin Joseph Chatterton
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Religious affiliation and its inherent membership in an associated social network as a sociolinguistic factor is examined in the community of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in Cardston, Alberta. Building on Meechan's 1998 findings that the LDS community in the area used Canadian Raising in a different set of phonotactic environments than the surrounding non-LDS English speakers, the study aims to determine if the LDS community uses other Canadian speech features differently or less frequently and if any Utah features (defined as Utah English in the literature, being the language of LDS English speakers in Utah) have continued from the settling of …