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• W2930767430 abstract "R E V I E W S G. M. Story, W. J. Kirwin, and J. D. A. Widdowson, Dictionary of New­ foundland English (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982). lxxvii, 625. $45.00 Harold Paddock, A Dialect Survey of Carbonear, Newfoundland: Publica­ tion of the American Dialect Society, Number 68 (University of Alabama Press, 1981). vii, 78. $5.20 Many Canadians must, like me, rejoice when the national news allows a Newfoundlander to comment on some recent enormity. But the television and radio networks that broadcast their pungent speech belong to a time and a technological culture inhospitable to regional diversity and tradi­ tionalism. The idiosyncratic features of Newfoundland English are under threat. How fortunate, then, that it has — particularly in the last few decades — engaged the attention of a number of able and devoted scholars. G. M. Story, W. J. Kirwin, and J. D. A. Widdowson, together with a number of others, have worked both energetically and efficiently to preserve the English of Newfoundland and to make its riches available to non-natives. Their Dictionary of Newfoundland English seems to me a model of sound judgement and happy collaboration. And to its handsome pages not only the editors but the various national funding agencies and the University of Toronto Press may point with justifiable pride. As the editors record, they began their work in the absence of “those preliminary and ancillary studies or even facilities upon which critical scholarship customarily builds” (v). To make good this lack they themselves instigated the necessary studies, including Harold Paddock’s 1966 M.A. thesis, recendy published by the American Dialect Society, A Dialect Survey of Carbonear, Newfoundland. In view of its preliminary function I would like to take up this short monograph before returning to the Dictionary itself. Carbonear, according to Professor Paddock, offers a representative sample of Newfoundland inhabitants, so the survey of the town’s dialect should E n g l is h S t u d ie s in C a n a d a , x i, 4, December 1985 yield conclusions valid for the island as a whole. Yet his sample is so small, amounting to “twenty-four cases of separate idiolects” (7), that these con­ clusions can be advanced only tentatively. In fact, it is his personal famili­ arity with the dialect that allows him to construct the grammatical and phonological descriptions that are at the heart of this work. The grammar of Carbonear English emerges as an excellent example of the systematic nature of seemingly rule-free non-standard English. Pecul­ iarities of pronoun use are to be explained by the operation of various rules including, in constructions with -self, the base pronoun’s appearance in the more logical genitive case: hisself, etc. The -s inflection is used throughout the present of lexical verbs and omitted throughout the present of auxiliary verbs, yielding the regular, if non-standard, “ I does my work” and “He do work here.” Even the apparently anomalous verb to be partly adheres to this rule: thus “I bees sick.” Paddock’s discussion of phonology is highly technical. It appears from the gingerly way in which he defines his approaches and draws his conclusions that this chapter is situated in scholarly territory where hand-to-hand phonological battles have recently been fought. “To present maximum phonetic data as concisely as possible” (17) a largely “taxonomic” phonemic description is used. Once again, complex and systematic rules are adduced to explain regional features that might otherwise seem only aberrant. The vowels of maid and made, pain and pane are said to be distinguished. And hasp is realized as haps and last as las’, because of “a tendency towards symmetry of sonority in that only the reverse of the onset order [sp, etc.] is used in the corresponding codas” (32). The terminal closures of Carbonear intonation are also unusual in their consistent use of rising patterns, which, as Paddock drily observes, “gives many outsiders the sometimes mistaken impression of friendliness” (35). Also briefly discussed is the ingressive speech familiar to those with Newfoundland acquaintances, though why it should be “usually produced by girls or women in very animated exchanges” (35) is never explained. The treatment of..." @default.
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