On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:50:38 +0800, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> wrote:
>But if the male settled in the female's village after marriage, his
>speech would probably assimilate as well.
Thanks for bringing that up. I thought of that but neglected to say it; I
think that could be what would happen.
>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.
I don't see why this would necessarily be more often the case than not,
moreso in uxorilocal societies than others.
This phenomenon would probably be distributed randomly w.r.t. uxorilocal
vs. other societies. Consequently it would weaken the degree of the
correlation Pete propososes, without destroying its significance.
>
>Eugene
Thanks, Eugene.
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>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
>>
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