Re: Consequences of a matrilocal society

But if the male settled in the female's village after marriage, his
speech would probably assimilate as well. Also, it might be possible
that male speech exhibits more variation due to a high degree of
outside influence, an influence which is erratic and hence which
contributes to the heterogenisation (?) of the male speech.

Eugene

On 6/12/06, Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:
> Suppose we have a society where a woman will live her entire life in the
> village where she was born, but where a man must leave the village at his
> coming of age and marry a woman from another village. This is the way these
> poeple avoid consanguineous marriages. It occurs to me that the language
> spoken in such a society will have two registers - a male register and a
> female register. The female register will have a lot of dialectal variation
> from village to village, where as the male register will more homogeneous
> over wider areas.
>
> Pete
>